Graphic showing the LEGO bricks and wave forms

CU Boulder researchers use LEGO bricks to decode intricate vibration patterns

April 26, 2021

Researchers at CU Boulder are using LEGO bricks to study and simply illustrate the general dynamics and topology of metastructures and metamaterials.

A robot making its way through the colon

Visual clues aid autonomous medical robot in journey through human body

April 19, 2021

Researchers in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering are developing a robot that may one day change how millions of people across the U.S. get colonoscopies, making these common procedures easier for patients and more efficient for doctors.

Chatterjee working in the lab with a student

Drug development platform could provide flexible, rapid and targeted antimicrobials

April 16, 2021

Researchers at CU Boulder 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.

An air purifier the size of a water bottle sits among wine glasses on a restaurant table

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 Boulder's Mark Hernandez is helping a California restaurant keep its patrons safer during COVID.

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.

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€

Shu-Wei Huang

New imaging technique could help catch osteoarthritis early

April 7, 2021

Shu-Wei Huang's research focuses on ultrafast optics, nonlinear optics, nanophotonics, and microscopy. His project is titled “Dual-comb Photoacoustic Microscopy with Super-resolution Wavefront Shaping.â€

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DoD Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative webinar

April 6, 2021

The Research & Innovation Office invites DoD-funded basic researchers to a virtual information session on the Department of Defense’s Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) program on April 14.

Student working in the lab

COSINC calls for proposals on material characterization projects

March 31, 2021

The Colorado Shared Instrumentation in Nanofabrication and Characterization (COSINC) research facility is calling for new proposals that would be enabled by their equipment and staff now through April 30.

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