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Recipients of 2020 Research & Innovation Seed Grants announced

April 15, 2020

The 2020 program attracted 109 proposals, which were evaluated by 42 faculty volunteers. CEAS winners this year include Bielefeldt, Ding and Peleg and many more.

Staff member holds 3D printed face shield components

ATLAS makers print face shield parts

April 13, 2020

Joining the global grassroots response to shortfalls in personal protective equipment, members of the ATLAS community are 3D printing parts for face shields to help protect local medical personnel against the highly contagious novel coronavirus.

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16 CU Engineering students earn NSF Graduate Research Fellowships for 2020

April 13, 2020

Most of the students will use their awards to continue their PhD or master's research at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê, while the two undergraduate recipients will use theirs to begin their graduate studies at other highly regarded universities.

FieldLine Capstone Design

Students help to see the brain in a new way

April 10, 2020

FieldLine Inc., a company that grew out of research being conducted in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering, is building sensors to image the brain using magnetic fields. For the second consecutive year, capstone design students will help to advance their innovative concepts.

Daniel Larremore

Larremore using Facebook data in the fight against COVID-19

April 9, 2020

Larremore and several colleagues from Colorado joined a nationwide study that seeks to use social media data to better understand how coronavirus cases might grow and travel in the coming weeks.

Medical staff at Boulder Community Health pick up meals.

Boulder community rallies to support restaurants, medical staff

April 7, 2020

CU Engineering’s Kyle Judah, executive director of entrepreneurship, is among a small group of community members who saw an opportunity: to support local restaurants while providing fuel for the fight against COVID-19 to frontline healthcare workers.

Shelly Miller

Indoor air quality expert tackles questions on COVID-19

April 3, 2020

How can you keep your indoor air quality healthy if you’re stuck at home amid a global pandemic? Professor Shelly Miller of the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Environmental Engineering Program has been tackling these and other questions in her Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering class.

Rachel Sharpe works on a 3D printed mask component in the ITLL

Labs use 3D printers to create face shield parts for health care workers

April 1, 2020

As coronavirus cases mount in Colorado, several dozen 3D printers have roared back to life on the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê campus. They’re making personal protective equipment for health care workers on the frontlines of the crisis.

A brick made out of biological material shaped like a wheel

Conversation: new research is finding ways to turn cells into mini-factories for materials

March 24, 2020

If humanity had a blank landscape, how would people build things? Assistant Professor Wil Srubar explains the benefits and potential of engineered living materials in The Conversation.

Wil Srubar working in the lab with a student.

Srubar will use new NSF award to create carbon-sink concrete

March 20, 2020

Wil Srubar, an assistant professor in civil, environmental and architectural engineering and Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê’s Materials Science and Engineering Program, has won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award – one of the most prestigious awards for young faculty.

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