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From launching the Emirates Mars Mission and establishing a new AI institute to addressing COVID-19 and tackling the ever-expanding effects of our changing climate, CU Boulder faculty, staff and students will always be found at the leading edge of the issues that matter most.

Renewable energy is expanding at a record pace, but still not fast enough. CU Boulder experts Charles Kutscher and Jeffrey Logan of the Renewable & Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI) share the key areas to watch for progress in bringing more wind and solar into the power grid in 2022.

The forum 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.

Professor Jeff Thayer (Aerospace Engineering) is one of three interdisciplinary scientists chosen by NASA for the Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC) mission, which will provide the first direct global measurements of Earth’s atmospheric interface with space and how it responds to energy from the sun.

Meredith MacGregor, assistant professor in the Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy (CASA) at CU Boulder, spoke about the science of James Webb in a new Fiske Planetarium event series sponsored by Colorado-based Ball Aerospace, which designed and built the telescope’s unfolding mirror.

Last month, U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse got a first-hand look at the future of ultrafast lasers, record-setting clocks and quantum computers when he toured facilities at JILA, a research partnership between CU Boulder and NIST. The visit comes as investments in quantum research are expanding across the country.

In 2021, CU Boulder researchers tackled challenges ranging from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic to space exploration and climate change. As you prepare for the holidays, take a look back at the innovations and studies that will shape the year ahead.

Built by LASP at CU Boulder, the CubeSats will provide first-of-their-kind measurements of gravity waves in Earth’s upper atmosphere and explosions in the Sun’s corona, filling data gaps that will allow scientists to better predict the effects of space weather on critical human infrastructure and technologies.

Solid Power, which previously received investments from Ford and BMW, raised $542.9 million by going public through a reverse merger with stocks now appearing on the Nasdaq exchange. The company’s solid-state battery tech promises to create lighter, safer and faster-charging batteries for electric vehicles.

The AB Nexus program announced its third round of grant awards to faculty at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus and CU Boulder, collaborating on innovative research projects that aim to improve human wellbeing through basic science and translational research approaches.