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Five startup ventures, led by CU Boulder students and faculty, competed for more than $100K in prize money at the 14th annual New Venture Challenge championship. Since its inception in 2009, more than 900 CU Boulder startups have participated, with over $700K in NVC funding awarded.

NASA鈥檚 Jet Propulsion Laboratory has selected LASP to lead the operations for NEO Surveyor, a space-based telescope that will use infrared bands to detect, track and characterize Near Earth Objects (NEOs)鈥攁steroids and comets that come within 48 million kilometers (30 million miles) of Earth鈥檚 orbit.

The 2022 Research & Innovation Seed Grants , announced by the CU Boulder Research & Innovation Office (RIO) and the Office of the Provost, are funding 25 new projects for up to $50,000 each, including three new CU Boulder Grand Challenge projects. The seed grant program is designed to stimulate...

The 4th forum in this series will bring together researchers and research partners in an effort to enhance communication, coordination and collaboration in response to the Boulder County fires that ignited on December 30, 2021. CONVERGE is a NSF-funded initiative headquartered at the Natural Hazards Center at CU Boulder.

Colorado is at the forefront of America鈥檚 aerospace industry. This month, representatives from LASP and other university affiliates attended the 37th annual Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, joining thousands of participants from the civil, commercial and national security sectors.

CU Boulder鈥檚 East Campus is now home to the High-Sensitivity Low-Energy Ion Scattering (HS-LEIS) Spectrometer, a tool researchers from across the Rocky Mountain region will use for advanced materials characterization and analysis. The HS-LEIS is currently only the second device of its kind in the United States.

R.C. 鈥淢erc鈥� Mercure Jr., a CU Boulder alumnus and entrepreneur who helped launch Boulder into the pantheon of aerospace science and engineering, died on Feb. 10, in Boulder. In 1956 he and others founded Ball Brothers Research Corp., now Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp.

At the NVC15 Cross-Campus Collaboration Prize Night, first-place winner Delta Horizons was awarded $5K for a newly-developed braking system for four-wheeled walkers; other winners included tissue-based biomaterials company TissueForm and Birk, an all-natural yerba mate.

Provost Russell Moore today announced he has appointed Professor Massimo Ruzzene to the post of acting vice chancellor for research and innovation and dean of the institutes, effective June 1. Ruzzene succeeds Terri Fiez, who has held the post since 2015 and who announced her retirement on Feb. 22.

Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the resulting U.S. response through sanctions and enhanced export controls, and the Colorado Governor鈥檚 supporting executive order, CU Boulder鈥檚 Office of Export Controls views any engagements with Russia, Belarus, and Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine, as extremely high risk.