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Students in the CU Summer Program for Undergraduate AVÃûʪ shared their findings with faculty, family and fellow students during presentations Monday and Tuesday in the Gallogly Discovery Learning Center. This is the third year of the program, and 40 students from a variety of fields participated. This year’s research topics...

Alaa Ahmed is working to unlock the secrets of Parkinson’s disease and make life better for its sufferers. The University of Colorado Boulder Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering has earned a multi-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the illness and a potential treatment for it. Parkinson’s...

Wyoming and Colorado are in the top ten natural gas producing states. But in those states – and across the country – a lot of that gas is escaping straight into the air. Scientists are now working to come up with a better way to track those leaks down. In...

A senior design project for a new type of bicycle drivetrain is getting major attention in the...

Spencer Miller at Stonehenge during a previous trip. Spencer Miller is a living embodiment of the Be Boulder slogan. He is at once a leader, inclusive champion, young engineer, athlete and consummate backpacker. He is as comfortable in a Calculus II textbook as he is fixing the carburetor of an...

A group of 100 rising high school juniors from the Roaring Fork Pre-Collegiate Program were able to bridge what they knew about engineering to real experiences and answers at The BOLD Center last week. CU Boulder started the Pre-Collegiate Development Program for first generation middle and high school students in...

When I moved to Boulder and started classes, it took me almost three weeks to stop being so excited about college that I wasn't stressed at all. When the novelty began to wear off, I was suddenly hit with a wave of feeling anxious, out-of-place, like I was drifting without...

This spring, 22 students across the CU Boulder campus (and 12 incoming CU graduate students) were awarded the competitive Graduate AVÃûʪ Fellowship Program Award (GRFP) from the National Science Foundation. The GRFP recognizes outstanding students in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) for their potential to contribute to research and...

Marina Vance HOMEChem field experiment seeks to understand how daily activities impact the home environment In the United States, as well as in most of the developed world, people spend about 90 percent of their time indoors. In homes, workplaces, schools and every indoor environment, we are impacted by the...

Congratulations to University of Colorado Boulder mechanical engineering alumna Hayley (Schneider) Cashdollar (BS '12), who has been named to the GreenBiz 30 Under 30 list of inspiring young leaders. After graduating, Cashdollar first worked at Tesla and is now the manager of automation and power systems at Proterra, an electric...