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Undergraduate researchers learn valuable lessons from remote research

Sept. 24, 2020

Undergraduate researches share their experiences as participants in the ME SPUR Program. ME SPUR, modeled after CU Summer Program for Undergraduate Research, enabled undergraduate students to work with mechanical engineering faculty on research that could be conducted remotely.

Orit Peleg

In the Smoky Mountains, thousands of fireflies flash in unison. Researchers want to know how

Sept. 24, 2020

During typical summers in the southeastern U.S., streams of visitors travel to Great Smoky Mountains National Park to witness one of nature鈥檚 most spectacular displays of light: thousands of male fireflies, all flashing together in near-perfect harmony.

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Dynamic tattoos promise to warn wearers of health threats

Sept. 24, 2020

The first examples of color-changing nanotech tattoos have been developed over the past few years, and they鈥檙e not just for body art.

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LearnChemE founders celebrate 10 years of chemical engineering education with a new NSF grant

Sept. 23, 2020

Ten years ago, a few professors had a question: what if chemical and biological engineering students and instructors could get free, in-depth, high-quality instruction on hundreds of subjects within the field any time they wanted?

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Remembering Vince Kontny (CivEngr'58)

Sept. 23, 2020

Alumnus Vince Kontny, a longtime friend of CU Engineering and influential member of the engineering and construction industry, passed away Aug. 9 at age 83. Kontny served on the college鈥檚 Engineering Development Council for many years and earned the Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award in 1989, as well as an honorary doctorate from CU Boulder in 1991.

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Reminders as we move remote

Sept. 21, 2020

Key points from today's announcement

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Air Quality Inquiry project extends from rural Colorado into Mongolia

Sept. 21, 2020

For three years, Air Quality Inquiry has been reaching K-12 students across rural Colorado. This year, Daniel Knight and his team extended the program across the globe to reach Public Lab Mongolia, a nonprofit whose mission is to make data available to the Mongolian public.

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Unmask the Racism: CU students challenge anti-Asian racism through social media campaign

Sept. 21, 2020

Unmask the Racism is a social media campaign created by students of Asian heritage at CU Boulder to spread awareness about xenophobia and racism against people of Asian heritage around the country and to support local Asian businesses.

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鈥淔ine-tuning鈥 catalyst performance for sustainable hydrogen peroxide synthesis

Sept. 17, 2020

New research from Professor J. Will Medlin and collaborators at three other institutions points to a new, inexpensive and sustainable method of synthesizing hydrogen peroxide.

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Supporting one another during 14-day quarantine

Sept. 16, 2020

Together we can, and will, Protect our Herd.

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