Faculty in Focus
From developing vaccines聽to breaking down mixed-plastic waste streams into valuable chemicals, Assistant Professor Kayla Sprenger's highly interdisciplinary work is focused at the crossroads of physics, engineering and immunology, and done in close synergy with experimentalists and clinicians.
As a visiting scholar, the CU 麻豆影院 geography professor will visit other campuses, join classroom lectures and seminars and give major lectures open to the host campus鈥檚 community.
With regent approval in February, the University of Colorado announced Karolin Luger as a newly designated distinguished professor. Being named a distinguished professor is the highest honor bestowed upon faculty across the system's four campuses. Luger joins a nine-member 2022 cohort.
Robyn Macdonald, assistant professor of aerospace engineering sciences, discusses the broad applications of her research and the advantages for prospective students who choose to study in her new lab.
Majid Zamani is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science. He leads the Hybrid Control Systems Lab and helps protect human life through safer autonomous systems.
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.
Associate Professor Loren Hough is set to lead the Graduate School鈥檚 diversity, equity, access and inclusion efforts and discusses the new role.
Reiland Rabaka, professor of African, African American and Caribbean Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies, is the founder and director of CU 麻豆影院鈥檚 Center for African & African American Studies (CAAAS, pronounced 鈥渃ause鈥).
Professor Dan Zhang was recently honored with a teaching award for enthusiasm, engagement and his Advanced Analytics course for MBA students, which includes teachings in the R programming language.鈥
CU 麻豆影院 Assistant Professor Laura Dee has been named an Ecological Society of America Early Career Fellow, a reflection of her contributions so far and to come.