A large metal sculpture of a "greater than / less than" sign hangs in a modern art gallery

Denver artist Joel Swanson questions everything

Sept. 16, 2024

ATLAS associate professor's new gallery show, "Orderings," challenges basic assumptions of everyday order through sculpture, mixed media, video and more.

Christopher Gaines holds clay-colored square with a tactile representation of a sun petroglyph

Touching the Sun with Solar Stones

Aug. 27, 2024

ATLAS undergraduate students partnered with NASA's PUNCH mission and the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind to make tactile representations of ancient petroglyphs.

Laura Devendorf stands smiling in the Unstable Design Lab while holding a colorful woven form and showing it to guests

Devendorf bridges engineering and craft communities with new initiative

Aug. 13, 2024

The Unstable Design Lab director has embarked on the first phase of a years-long project to bring together engineering and craft communities to advance textile research across a range of scientific disciplines.

Community members stand around a table playing with Collaborator together at EXPO 2024 in the Audio Frequency Lab

ATLAS Team Scores at SynthUX Hackathon

June 3, 2024

A team of students in the Audio Frequency Lab designed and built the Collaborator multi-player synthesizer, taking home top honors at this year's Synthux International Synth Design Hackathon.

Student tests Copilot accessibility features

Could AI be the next college teaching assistant? Some Colorado professors believe so

May 16, 2024

Some innovative classrooms, including the Generative AI class at ATLAS, are experimenting with ways to apply new AI tools in learning.

ATLAS logo + 2024 student award winners

2024 ATLAS Student Award Winners Announced

May 6, 2024

College of Engineering and Applied Science Graduating Student Awards Congratulations to the Spring 2024 Graduating Student Award winners for the College of Engineering and Applied Science! We’re excited to see six ATLAS students among the recipients this year. View the complete list of winners on the College of Engineering &...

Photo series of SCOBY growth with corresponding musical notes

Microbiology as meditation: Living Matter Lab explores “livingness” in time

April 8, 2024

The Living Matter Lab pursues a deeper understanding of alternative perspectives on temporality through a surprising medium: kombucha SCOBY.

Sonic Summit stage setup with illustration of speaker around in 270-degree surround theater

A revolution in sound: Exploring new ways to listen at Sonic Summit

April 3, 2024

High-density speaker arrays use strategically placed speakers throughout a room to create an immersive three-dimensional soundscape. The ATLAS B2 Black Box Experimental Studio features performances that take full advantage of this technology.

stylized social media like notifications

‘It is hijacking my brain’ – a team of experts found ways to help young people addicted to social media to cut the craving

Feb. 15, 2024

Many people have compared the addictive nature of social media to cigarettes. Checking your likes, they say, is the new smoke break. Others say the unease over social media is just the next round of moral panic about new technologies.

Art and Demo Exhibition Venue building on the harbor in Cork, Ireland

ATLAS in Ireland: 12 community members present at TEI’24

Feb. 9, 2024

AVʪ from 12 members of the ATLAS community including faculty, alumni and students is featured at the 18th ACM International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction.

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