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Summer pivots lead to new programming during coronavirus

Aug. 4, 2020

The challenges of COVID-19 have inspired innovation among staff, faculty and students, leading to the development of two summer programs for 38 participating mechanical engineering students: the ME Summer Design Intensive and ME SPUR.

Carbon Dioxide model

Holewinski and Smith earn Scialog Fellowship to foster scientific breakthroughs to combat climate change

Aug. 3, 2020

Assistant Professor Adam Holewinski and Associate Professor Wilson Smith have been selected as Scialog Fellows to participate in the 2020 Scialog: Negative Emissions Science initiative, an effort to identify bottlenecks in research and develop ways to foster breakthroughs in the field.

Working on the tilt translation sled.

Return to research: Improving astronaut health for next gen space missions

July 23, 2020

Life is returning to some semblance of normal for students in Assistant Professor Torin Clark’s laboratory on campus. A faculty member in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, his team’s research focuses on astronaut health on long-term space missions. When much of campus shut down due...

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The Science of Social Silence on @CUEngineering Social Media

July 23, 2020

What we learned by implementing strategic social media silence on the CU Engineering social media channels.

Artist's rendition of quantum entanglement.

New $25-million center to advance quantum science and engineering

July 21, 2020

The National Science Foundation has 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.

Hypersonic vehicle heading into the atmosphere

Three new research themes push boundaries of work in college

July 20, 2020

The College of Engineering and Applied Science has launched three new interdisciplinary research themes as part of a broad push into growing and critical areas of study. They are titled Hypersonic Vehicles, Resilient Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity, and Engineering Education and AI-Augmented Learning.

PhD student Sannidhya Ghosh uses a forklift to move concrete creep frames in the CIEST lab

Return to Research: Busy civil engineering lab sets new research priorities

July 16, 2020

Mija Hubler, assistant professor in civil, environmental and architectural engineering, said her group was excited to restart their research, even though they’re juggling multiple projects with only two-thirds of the PhD students and postdoctoral researchers.

A render of the BOLD Center entrance way after the renovation

Campos EPC enables transformative BOLD renovation

July 16, 2020

CU Boulder alumnus Marco Campos (CivEngr'98) and his company, Campos EPC, have provided $1 million through the Campos EPC Foundation to allow for a transformational renovation of the BOLD Center.

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Attendees share takeaways from conference on race and ethnicity in higher ed

July 15, 2020

As the nation grappled with the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and other Black Americans this spring, many in the College of Engineering and Applied Science community began advocating for resources to better understand and confront systemic racism. Director of Inclusive Culture Amy Moreno immediately thought of...

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Passion for student success and achievement fuels new assistant dean, Terri D. Wright

July 13, 2020

New assistant dean for access, inclusion and student programs, Dr. Terri D. Wright, joins CU Boulder College of Engineering and Applied Science on July 20, 2020. Through her path from academia, to industry and into academic administration she had developed a depth of expertise that will inform and guide a holistic view of student achievement and support.

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