A student participant pitches her venture at Catalyze demo day

Apply now for Catalyze CU startup accelerator

March 15, 2019

Applications just opened for Catalyze CU, a summer-long startup accelerator with a track record of launching fledgling ideas on the path to successful ventures.

Aerial shot of CU Boulder campus

CU Engineering continues rise: No. 17 among nation’s public engineering graduate programs

March 12, 2019

The College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado Boulder remains a powerhouse institution for graduate engineering education, ranking No. 17 in the nation among public universities and No. 31 overall, according to data released Tuesday by U.S. News & World Report.

Participants at last year’s Starting Blocks received expert feedback to help them hone their business model and pitches.

New commercialization program at CU draws engineers out of the lab

March 10, 2019

CU’s Commercialization Academy is excited to introduce a new AVĂűĘŞ-to-Market program for technologists looking to take their idea to market. Through lectures, workshops and interviews with industry professionals, R2M participants will learn the process of customer discovery.

A Denver Water representative leads students on a tour of the existing treatment plant.

Civil engineering seniors designing new Denver water treatment plant

March 7, 2019

These design-build projects are being created by 13 multidisciplinary teams of 6 students who must design and and plan the project. At the end of the semester, they will present the projects as construction bids to Denver Water, with one group’s project being chosen.

The Martian promotional photo

(Bad) Science Movie Night features "The Martian" on March 21

March 5, 2019

Join a free screening of “The Martian” (2015), then hear from experts about what it’s really like to be in space, what Hollywood did right and what they got so painfully wrong.

A view of the Earth from space, showing clusters of lights in cities.

Computer science researchers challenge decades-old 'scale free' network theory

March 5, 2019

In research published in the journal Nature Communications, Anna Broido and Aaron Clauset used computational tools to analyze a huge dataset of more than 900 networks, with examples from the realms of biology, transportation, technology and more.

The lobby at LASP with people on a tour

Scientists and dignitaries celebrate 7 decades of CU Boulder in space at LASP

March 5, 2019

Orion EM-1

CU Boulder lands a slot on first Orion flight around the moon

March 4, 2019

A little piece of Colorado is going to the moon. When NASA launches Orion EM-1 in 2020, its first mission to orbit the moon since 1972, experiments from the University of Colorado Boulder will be aboard.

Erin Connor working at a computer

PhD student Erin Connor wins graduate fellowship for work on the science of smell

Feb. 28, 2019

Connor of civil, environmental and architectural engineering studies transport mechanisms dictated by the physics of the environment, along with specialized biological mechanisms involved in odor perception.

A pharaoh cuttlefish

Underwater creatures inspire shape-shifting, color-changing materials

Feb. 28, 2019

AVĂűĘŞ into how light can affect material shape goes deep—rather, into the depths—by drawing inspiration from cephalopods: marine animals including squids, octopuses and cuttlefish that can change their shape and color.

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