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New Principal Investigator Academy bolsters resources for early career faculty

Sept. 12, 2017

The Research & Innovation Office (RIO) has launched a new Principal Investigator (PI) Academy program to orient early career, tenure-track faculty to CU Â鶹ӰԺ’s research community and resources. Through the PI Academy, presenters and facilitators will actively engage faculty on a number of core research topics to ensure early investigators...

RIO Faculty Fellows

Research & Innovation Office unveils fellows program for early-to-mid career faculty

Sept. 8, 2017

The Research & Innovation Office (RIO) is launching a new faculty fellowship this fall. Applications will be accepted through October 15 and selections will be announced by November 1, 2017. The RIO Faculty Fellows program will accelerate research and creative works leadership skills development for early-to-mid career faculty, equipping them...

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CU Â鶹ӰԺ researchers honored with Governor’s Awards for high impact

Two projects led by Â鶹ӰԺ researchers are among a select group being recognized with 2017 Governor’s Awards for High-Impact Research. The awards, presented by the CO-LABS consortium, celebrate the groundbreaking work of scientists and engineers from Colorado’s federal research labs.

ASV Day 2017

Exploring the 21st century space economy at AeroSpace Ventures Day 2017

This year’s sold-out AeroSpace Ventures Day drew a crowd of thought leaders and representatives from across Colorado’s vibrant aerospace community.

Voyager

The Voyager spacecraft: 40 years in space, surreal solar system discoveries

In 1977, two NASA space probes destined to forever upend our view of the solar system launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. CU Â鶹ӰԺ scientists, who designed and built identical instruments for Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, were as stunned as anyone when the spacecraft began sending back data to Earth.

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State accelerator program fosters CU Â鶹ӰԺ spinoff companies

Taking a well-researched, high impact idea to market can be a challenge. But thanks to grants provided by the state of Colorado’s Advanced Industry Accelerator (AIA) programs, some 21 businesses have been spun from CU Â鶹ӰԺ.

Solar instruments

$90 million solar instruments head to Florida for launch

A solar instrument package designed and built by CU Â鶹ӰԺ and considered a key tool to help monitor the Â鶹ӰԺ climate has arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a targeted November launch.

Mesa Verde

Ancient DNA used to track abandonment of Mesa Verde in 13th century

Aug. 11, 2017

Ancient DNA used to track the mass exodus of ancestral Pueblo people from Colorado’s Mesa Verde region in the late 13th century indicates many wound up in the northern Rio Grande area north of Santa Fe, New Mexico, inhabited today by the Tewa Pueblo people.

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CU Â鶹ӰԺ spinoff modernizes magnesium production

CU Â鶹ӰԺ engineers have revamped a World War II-era process for making magnesium that requires half the energy and produces a fraction of the pollution compared to today’s leading methods.

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Tracking Â鶹ӰԺ's air quality—and generating public data—in real time

CU Â鶹ӰԺ researchers and Colorado public agencies have partnered to create an automated emissions monitoring system that tracks methane and other harmful atmospheric gases to generate publically available data in near-real time.

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