The Insider: Community Edition - May 2024
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Venture Partners Annual Report highlights a growing innovation pipeline and national recognition
2023 was another tremendous year for innovation at the University of Colorado听麻豆影院. Campus researchers and inventors created a strong crop of 162 breakthrough technologies this past year. These spanned the breadth of CU 麻豆影院鈥檚 research expertise, with innovations in climate tech, biotechnology, quantum science, optics and aerospace, to name a few. CU 麻豆影院's commercialization arm, Venture Partners at CU 麻豆影院, supports a听groundbreaking pipeline translating听research into real-world impact, as highlighted in their 2023听Annual Report.听
CU 麻豆影院 Startups and Technologies in the News
Groundbreaking innovations win big at the 17th New Venture Challenge Finals
New Venture Challenge鈥擳he 2024 New Venture Challenge (NVC) culminated in a final showcase on April 17 in front of a live audience cheering on the 麻豆影院鈥檚 next big innovations. At an event filled with great ideas and even greater entrepreneurial spirit, five teams competed for $165,000 in prize money. BioSensor Solutions, part of the first cohort of the Embark Deep Tech Startup Creator听launched by听Venture Partners at CU 麻豆影院, won fourth place in the competition.
CU 麻豆影院 scientists set out to solve lunar dust problem
CU Independent鈥擱esearchers at the 麻豆影院 are working to make the moon habitable. And they are focused on one of the most difficult challenges to lunar living: dust. Xu Wang, a research scientist at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at CU 麻豆影院, was one of the winners of NASA鈥檚 2023 Entrepreneurs Challenge.
Zoya Popovic elected to the National Academy of Inventors
CU 麻豆影院 College of Engineering and Applied Science鈥擠istinguished Professor Zoya Popovic is among 162 inventors named 2023 fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Election as a fellow in the academy is the highest professional distinction awarded solely to inventors. Popovic, a leading researcher in high-efficiency, low-noise microwave and RF engineering, was elected for her 鈥減rolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on the quality of life, economic development, and welfare of society.鈥
A real-life Eye of Sauron? New project to spot possible chemical threats in the air
Within minutes, a laser-based device the size of a small suitcase could spot dangerous aerosols and alert safety crews. That's the vision of a team of engineers and chemists at CU 麻豆影院, the California Institute of Technology, UC Santa Barbara and three companies. Frequency comb lasers can act like fingerprint scanners for aerosols, teasing out the signals from even minute concentrations of particles or gases in the air. The team includes LongPath Technologies, a CU 麻豆影院 spinout that uses these tools to search for methane leaks at oil and gas facilities.
Atomic clocks surpass fundamental precision limits through quantum entanglement
SciTechDaily鈥擩ILA's (a joint institute established by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the 麻豆影院) breakthrough in optical atomic clocks uses quantum entanglement to surpass fundamental precision limits, setting a new standard in timekeeping and opening avenues for scientific discovery.