Research & Innovation News
Today, NSF announced that CU Boulder will receive a $25 million award to launch a new quantum science and engineering research center. The new center will be led by physicist Jun Ye and is a partnership with 11 other research organizations in the United States and abroad.
Created over 20 years ago, the conference is NSBE’s premier training program for approximately 250 national and regional officers. NSBE's mission is to end the underrepresentation of Black engineering students in the U.S. by graduating 10,000 Black engineers annually by 2025.
Whether it’s on top of a self-driving car or embedded inside the latest gadget, Light Detection and Ranging (lidar) systems will likely play an important role in our technological future, enabling vehicles to ‘see’ in real-time, phones to map three-dimensional images and enhancing augmented reality in video games.
Mass protests and a pandemic are swirling together to making 2020 one of the most difficult times to focus on work in modern history. Business leaders can help, and there are some often underappreciated tools they could be utilizing.
David Bortz, an associate professor of applied mathematics at CU Boulder, uses complex equations, or mathematical models, to tackle some of the trickiest questions in the life sciences. Today, he’s a member of Colorado’s COVID-19 Modeling Team.
The new group is tasked with identifying existing strengths and collaborative opportunities to enhance U.S. Department of Defense funding for current and future national-security-related projects and initiatives, especially in space, medical care and cybersecurity.
The COVID-19 Mobility Data Network draws on huge volumes of anonymized location information to follow how groups of people move over time, allowing researchers to build maps that show where people are still traveling in the age of social distancing.
The 2020 Research & Innovation Seed Grants, announced by the CU Boulder Office of the Provost and Research & Innovation Office (RIO), are funding 25 proposals for up to $50,000 each, including a new CU Boulder Grand Challenge project.
Wil Srubar, an assistant professor in CU Boulder’s Materials Science and Engineering Program, plans to use his NSF CAREER Award to create new types of “living” building materials, such as concrete that sequesters and stores more carbon dioxide.
In a new study published in the journal Matter, CU Boulder engineer Wil Srubar and his colleagues describe their strategy for using bacteria to develop building materials that live and multiply—and might deliver a lower carbon footprint, to boot.