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Under his NSF Career Award, Assistant Professor Wyatt Shields developed the "reverse science fair" in partnership with Alex Rose at CU Science Discovery. Graduate students from departments across CU Boulder presented their research, and Northglenn High School students served as the judges.
A group of Indigenous students at the University of Colorado Boulder recently launched a prize-winning rocket and earned a life-changing trip to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The Washington Post looks at how an air monitoring system designed by CU Boulder's Mark Hernandez is helping a California restaurant keep its patrons safer during COVID.
Good ventilation can reduce the risk of catching coronavirus. Environmental engineer Shelly Miller explains how to know if enough outside air is getting into a room and what to do if ventilation is bad.
During his career, Born won seven NASA awards for technical and managerial contributions while working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., where he worked on numerous interplanetary missions.
Assistant Professor Orit Peleg explores what we can learn from bees and nature that can then be applied to engineering.
Associate Professor Evan Thomas offers analysis for The Conversation, writing: "One way to improve drought resilience is to improve the management of groundwater."
Assistant Professor Christoffer Heckman offers analysis for The Conversation, writing: "What is this technology, which is already being used and marketed, and why is it raising concerns?"
Mechanical engineering's Rishi Raj wanted students to explore how da Vinci is relevant in modern times using the same methods that da Vinci used — drawings and writings about all manner of topics.
Our ever-growing appetite for intelligent, autonomous machines poses a host of ethical challenges, Assistant Professor Christoffer Heckman writes in The Conversation.