A home destroyed by the Marshall Fire.

Studying the Marshall Fire recovery to help communities rebuild

Sept. 16, 2022

The Marshall fire screamed across the prairie, exploding into homes with 80 mph winds and destroying entire neighborhoods. It caused over a billion dollars in damage in less than a day and took everything from more than 1,000 homeowners in Superior and Louisville, Colorado, leaving behind little more than ash...

Members of SHPE-MAES student organization at Engineering Immersion

Celebrating our Hispanic and Latino community members

Sept. 15, 2022

Each year, from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, we observe National Hispanic and Latino Heritage Month by celebrating the cultures, contributions and honoring the histories of Hispanic and Latino Americans whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America.

Hypersonic vehicle

Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê laser technology takes on supersonic engines

Sept. 15, 2022

Researchers at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê are using lasers to precisely quantify the performance of high-speed engines. Those measurements – recently described in detail in Optica – will be key to propelling superfast hypersonic vehicles in the future and should provide better engine performance overall.

Students walk past the Engineering Center

College continues to climb in national undergraduate rankings

Sept. 14, 2022

The College of Engineering and Applied Science came in at No. 17 among public institution peers, and six degree programs also earned top 20 spots in U.S. News and World Report.

Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê campus seen from the air

Postdocs, faculty mentors recognized during National Postdoctoral Appreciation Week

Sept. 13, 2022

Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê’s Office of Postdoctoral Affairs (OPA), in partnership with the Postdoctoral Association of Colorado Boulder (PAC Boulder), is offering both virtual and in-person activities throughout the week of Sept. 19–23.

CU WIC Letter to Incoming Students

Sept. 13, 2022

Dear buffs, I’m Rachel, president of CU Women in Computing , and I’m thrilled to tell you more about our society! First of all, everybody is welcome to join our club, not just women in computing! The purpose of WIC is to support, celebrate, and advocate for the full engagement...

Kaitlin Mccreery in the lab.

Advancing regenerative medicine as a Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê biomedical engineer

Sept. 7, 2022

Kaitlin Mccreery (MechEngr MS’20, BioEngr PhD’22) is pushing the frontiers of human cartilage research as a biomedical engineering PhD graduate from the University of Colorado Boulder. Mccreery is one of the first students to earn a PhD from the program, which began at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê in 2020 to bridge the...

The new industry-grade 100 kV electron beam writer

NSF funds new electron beam lithography system for quantum engineering, nanofabrication on Boulder campus

Sept. 7, 2022

A state-of-the-art instrument coming soon to Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê will improve research around quantum engineering and may eventually prove to be a game-changer for interdisciplinary materials and device research in the Rocky Mountain region.

CU SASE Letter to Incoming Students

Aug. 31, 2022

Dear Buffs, We, the executive board of the Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers (SASE) , would like to warmly welcome you to the University of Colorado Boulder. The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers was established and founded in November 2007 to help STEM Asian heritage professionals to achieve...

A person working in the COSINC lab space

As U.S. ramps up semiconductor production, engineers are probing new tiny electronics

Aug. 30, 2022

A number of researchers at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê are celebrating the passage of the CHIPS and Science Act by Congress.

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