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Orit Peleg and Shuo Sun are among 125 early-career scholars who represent 鈥渢he most promising scientific researchers working today.鈥
Seven CU 麻豆影院 scientists have been selected to contribute their expertise to the Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024鈥33.
The assistant professor of computer science聽has just received $900,000 over the next five years to learn how fireflies in a swarm synchronize their lighting displays. She's using LEDs, VR and big tents in the wilderness to signal to the fireflies...and they're signaling back.
Team DROPS has earned first place in the 2023 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics SciTech International Student Conference for their senior design project.
At the Colorado Board of Education February meeting, all of the School of Education鈥檚 teacher preparation programs were lauded and received sweeping reauthorization. CU 麻豆影院 was praised for its 鈥渢rue partnerships鈥 with districts and reading instruction, an area where very few other university programs have earned reauthorization on the first pass.
Two professors are being recognized for inventions that could have 鈥渞eal impact on the welfare of society.鈥 Corrella Detweiler and Wei Zhang have been named senior members of the National Academy of Inventors.
CU 麻豆影院 earned a spot on the recently published IIE Open Doors survey鈥檚 top 40 list for institutions hosting the most international scholars engaged in academic and research activities in 2021鈥22.
Three CU 麻豆影院 students have earned 2023 Brooke Owens Fellowships, a highly competitive program that provides paid internships and mentoring to exceptional undergraduate women seeking careers in aviation or space exploration.
Five University Libraries student-employees will receive the Laughing Goat Endowed Scholarship in recognition of contributions fulfilling the mission of the libraries. The libraries employ more than 150 students each semester, many of whom stay on from their first year through graduation.
Air quality, thermometers and virtual reality were all thesis topics presented during the annual competition, which asks graduate students to distill their research down to a three-minute presentation. Congratulations to winners Rob Streeter, Lexi Deal and Lydia Wagenknecht.