Evan Thomas

Podcast: Evan Thomas on how to tackle global poverty

April 16, 2021

Meet Dr. Evan Thomas, a professor of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering and Aerospace Engineering Sciences, and Director of the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering. In this episode, Dr. Thomas shares how his family’s interests in journalism, engineering and entrepreneurship, as well as his experiences with Engineering Without Borders, inspired him to tackle global poverty through his work and teaching.

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Quantum technology: Can the Denver, ÐßÐßÊÓƵ area be an epicenter for the next great tech boom?

April 16, 2021

The Denver Post article: ÐßÐßÊÓƵ has been the scene of Nobel Prize-winning breakthroughs in quantum technology, but commercialization presents a new challenge

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Drug development platform could provide flexible, rapid and targeted antimicrobials

April 16, 2021

Researchers at CU ÐßÐßÊÓƵ have created a platform that that can develop effective and highly specific peptide nucleic acid therapies for use against any bacteria within just one week. The work could change the way we respond to pandemics and how we approach increasing cases of antibiotic resistance globally.

Sherri Cook

Finding sustainable solutions to wicked water problems

April 16, 2021

Sherri Cook's research focuses on resource recovery from wastewater, sustainable design, and anaerobic wastewater treatment. Her project is titled “An Integrated Research and Education Plan to Navigate Tradeoffs in the Design of Sustainable and Resilient Water Reuse Systems.â€

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How one restaurant’s experiment may help diners breathe safely

April 14, 2021

The Washington Post looks at how an air monitoring system designed by CU ÐßÐßÊÓƵ's Mark Hernandez is helping a California restaurant keep its patrons safer during COVID.

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Six CU ÐßÐßÊÓƵ Chemical and Biological Engineering students selected for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

April 12, 2021

The GRFP is a five-year fellowship that honors graduate students working in science and engineering fields supported by the NSF. Students selected for the fellowship receive $34,000 in annual stipend funds.

Longji Cui

Combined energy sources return a burst of photons from plasmonic gold nanogaps

April 12, 2021

Assistant Professor Longji Cui is the first author on a new paper that describes a phenomenon which drastically boosts light emissions from a nanoscale device.

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A house run on the sun: How a team of CU students SPARC-ed advances for modern mountain housing

April 12, 2021

From April 15-18, CU ÐßÐßÊÓƵ will compete in the Solar Decathlon Build Challenge against nine other teams from the U.S., as well as from The Netherlands, Chile and Canada.

Jorge Poveda

By combining machine learning and control theory, Poveda expands field of autonomy

April 12, 2021

Jorge Poveda has been working for years to improve the ways autonomous systems overcome problems they encounter on the job. It’s complex work that could impact our everyday life, like our daily commute in autonomous cars, to more imaginative goals like swarms of robots working in unison. By combining concepts from artificial intelligence and machine learning with well-known control theories, he may have found a new approach that could prove key to moving forward on many fronts.

Danielle Szafir

NSF CAREER award supports Danielle Szafir’s data-visualization research

April 9, 2021

Danielle Szafir's research focuses on visualization, computer science, HCI, perceptual psychology, and color science. Her project is titled “Developing Perceptually-Driven Tools for Estimating Visualization Effectiveness .â€

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