Research & Innovation News
Six grants and one sponsorship totaling $30,500 have been awarded by the Office for Outreach and Engagement, in partnership with the Research and Innovation Office and the Natural Hazards Center, to support community-engaged scholarship connected to the Marshall Fire.
Research at CIRES’ Center for Social and Environmental Futures will focus on the intersection of humans and the environment to better understand how communities can adapt to today’s environmental issues, and also better understand how social systems will evolve in the face of continued environmental change.
The Environmental Data Science Innovation and Inclusion Lab (ESIIL) is a major new NSF-funded data science and diversity effort at CIRES and CU Boulder. The new center will enable work that illuminates the biological impacts of climate change, includes diverse voices and responds to community needs.
Chancellor Philip DiStefano and a pair of CU Boulder sustainability leaders participated in University Climate Change Coalition (UC3) events during June as the university continues to take a leading role among higher education institutions in collaborating on climate solutions.
A new cooperative institute, formally designated the Cooperative Institute for Earth System Research and Data Science, will conduct collaborative research in support of NOAA’s mission to understand and predict Earth’s changing environment, from the deep sea to the outer edge of the atmosphere.
“It’s amazing to see all these companies building off of Nobel Prize-winning research,” said Philip Makotyn, executive director of the CUbit Quantum Initiative, which connects quantum researchers and companies in Colorado. “It’s just a rich ecosystem that doesn't exist anywhere else.”
“The blades are manufactured to be lightweight and very flexible, so they can align with the wind loads. That way, we can reduce the cost of the blades and bring down the cost of energy,” said Mandar Phadnis, a graduate student in electrical, computer and energy engineering at CU Boulder.
The AB Nexus program announced its fourth round of grant awards to faculty from the CU Anschutz Medical Campus and CU Boulder. From advancing new cancer and diabetes treatments to developing AI tools to diagnose dementia, the selected teams bring together experts from multiple disciplines.
On May 3, members of the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology and Colorado congressional delegation joined leaders from CU Boulder to showcase university research and federal partnerships. Last year, CU Boulder merited $481M in research funding from federal agencies.
The university will lead a five-year, $10 million NSF-funded initiative called MATCH, or Multi-Tier Assistance, Training and Computational Help, to reimagine cyberinfrastructure user support services and delivery to keep pace with the evolving needs of academic scientific researchers.