Peter Pilewskie, a senior researcher and faculty member, has been named to a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine鈥檚 committee that supports scientific progress on research requiring global data best acquired from space.
Twelve teams of faculty, researchers and graduate students competed for a combined $1.25 million in startup funding grants in this year鈥檚 Lab Venture Challenge. Judges heard Shark Tank-style pitches across two nights, one for innovations in biosciences and the other for physical sciences and engineering.
One of the highest CU system honors, four faculty members from the CU Boulder campus are now distinguished professors, recognized for their outstanding contributions as researchers and educators.
Doctoral candidates Jessie Smith and Janghee Cho have accepted fellowships with Google and Meta, respectively. Both will pursue research projects with financial support from the two companies.
In a banner year that has included receiving five distinguished research awards, the Chemical and Biological Engineering professor has now been awarded one of the nation鈥檚 largest and most prestigious awards for young investigators: a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering.
Recently at the annual Fall Convocation, the campus community honored 95 faculty members for their excellence in teaching, scholarship, leadership and service.
The award honors those who have made world-leading contributions in the field of physics, this year including JILA fellow Margaret Murnane. Murnane's work has been influential in advancing laser technology, optics research and quantum information science.
Department of Computer Science Professor Daniel Larremore has been recognized by Popular Science in its annual 鈥渂rilliant 10鈥� publication, listing top up-and-coming minds in science.
The National Association of Science Writers has awarded CU Boulder science writer Dan Strain an honorable mention in its prestigious Excellence in Institutional Writing Awards competition for his story 鈥淎 Walk in Two Worlds.鈥�
