A stuffed zebra toy sits on a box with buttons

Robots help kids tell stories鈥攚ith a little help from stuffed animals

Feb. 15, 2022

鈥淚 goed to school, and my friends were not listening.鈥 Layne Hubbard, who earned her doctorate from CU 麻豆影院 in 2021, is developing new technology to help young kids take charge of their own stories.

Members of the GEER team watch a drone take off from a snowy driveway

Engineers deploy drones to survey Marshall Fire, gather lessons for future disasters

Feb. 14, 2022

Just after first responders extinguished the flames of the Marshall Fire, a team of engineers from across the country hit the ground in an urgent effort: to collect data on the disaster before it disappears for good.

Engineers in cleanroom gear load a small satellite into a rocket

After 2-year delay, international student team set to launch satellite into space

Feb. 10, 2022

Students from the United States and five other countries will be cheering when a small satellite called INSPIRESat-1 lifts off from a rocket pad in India on Monday, Feb. 14.

Karl Linden examines a petri dish with students in the lab

Newest AAAS fellows honored for work on nuclear winter, water treatment, STEM education

Jan. 26, 2022

The American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world鈥檚 largest general scientific society, has announced that three CU 麻豆影院 researchers will join the ranks of its newest class of fellows.

CU 麻豆影院 undergraduate students, left to right, Adrian Bryant and听Rithik Gangopadhyay work in the mission operations center for IXPE.

Students operate $214M spacecraft. 鈥業t鈥檚 like what you see in the movies.鈥

Jan. 18, 2022

In December, students and professionals sat in a mission operations center on campus to watch NASA's new Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer satellite blast off into space. But for the dedicated individuals managing the mission operations, the hard work had just begun.

A toy donation station, for families effected by the Marshal fire, is set up in the Northeast parking lot of SEEC.

If you really listen, survivors and emergency responders will tell you what they need

Jan. 13, 2022

Survivors of events like the recent Marshall Fire may face what sociologist Lori Peek called "the long tail of disaster-related trauma." She argues these survivors need mental health resources and support from friends and family long after the television cameras are gone.

Colorado State Capitol building

Coloradans still deeply divided over COVID policies, election legitimacy, survey shows

Jan. 4, 2022

Nearly 85% of Colorado Democrats approved of some form of mask mandates in the state, according to a recently released survey on the state of politics in 2021. Only 21% of Republicans agreed.

Artist's depiction of James Webb in space with its mirror unfolded.

New space telescope to peer back at the universe鈥檚 first galaxies

Dec. 21, 2021

The decades-in-the-making James Webb Space Telescope will observe light from the dawn of the universe and may even detect the gases swirling in the atmospheres of alien planets.

A pit on the moon as seen from a satellite in orbit

Spelunking on the moon: New study explores lunar pits and caves

Dec. 13, 2021

One day, human astronauts could live in the protected environments of pits and caves on the moon. A new study seeks to better understand what the environments may be like within these craggy features.

Artist's depiction of the star EK Draconis ejecting a coronal mass ejection as two planets orbit

A young sun-like star may hold warnings for life on Earth

Dec. 9, 2021

On April 2020, astronomers observed a gigantic burst of energy and charged particles erupting from the surface of a far away star called EK Draconis. The findings suggest that similar events could, theoretically, occur on our own sun鈥撯揳lbeit rarely.

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