Hypersonic vehicle

CU Boulder lasers go supersonic

Oct. 13, 2022

Researchers at CU Boulder are using lasers to precisely quantify the performance of high-speed engines. Those measurements – recently described in detail in Optica – are key to propelling superfast hypersonic vehicles and providing better engine performance overall.

CU Boulder campus seen from the air

Research & Innovation Week returns to campus Oct. 17–21

Oct. 11, 2022

Events showcase research, scholarship and creative work from across the campus and demonstrate the broad impact of the research and innovation enterprise at CU Boulder.

Scott Diddams, left, and Greg Rieker in the lab

QEI Collaboration Lab opening to foster high-impact research in quantum engineering

Oct. 10, 2022

Researchers from CU Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will be better able to coordinate their efforts with the opening of the Quantum Engineering Initiative (QEI) Collaboration Lab on Sept. 26.

Researchers looking at an experiment in the lab

Research funding to CU Engineering remains strong in 2022, totals $131 million

Sept. 29, 2022

External research funding to CU Engineering remained strong in 2022 with projects totaling $131 million for the year’s funding cycle.

Computational tools

How tiny seeds might reduce our huge dependence on fossil fuels

Sept. 23, 2022

The Fox Group, led by Jerome Fox, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering at CU Boulder, was awarded $1.1 million of a five-year, $12.8 million U.S. Department of Energy grant, which involves seven universities and institutions and paves the way for broader use of non-food oilseed crops in the chemical industry.

Old Main on CU Boulder's campus

Research shows a handful of universities may control flow of ideas

Sept. 21, 2022

Just five U.S. universities have trained 1-in-8 tenure-track faculty members serving at the nation’s institutions of higher learning, according to new CU Boulder research.

Shelly Miller

Shelly Miller honored with Distinguished Research Lectureship by campus

Sept. 19, 2022

The Lectureship is among the most esteemed honors bestowed by the faculty upon a faculty member at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Boulder.

CU Boulder campus seen from the air

Postdocs, faculty mentors recognized during National Postdoctoral Appreciation Week

Sept. 13, 2022

CU Boulder’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.

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 CU Boulder 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.

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 CU Boulder are celebrating the passage of the CHIPS and Science Act by Congress.

Pages