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Alumnus Kevin Martin’s (MechEngr’16) robotics and apparel company unspun has built a machine that 3D-weaves a seamless pair of jeans in just ten minutes, based on technology first prototyped in the Department of Mechanical Engineering’s Senior Design course.

CU Boulder researchers Richard D. Noble (Chemistry) and Theodore Randolph (Engineering) have been named 2021 Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors, a recognition that honors academic inventors who have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society.

NSF has awarded a highly competitive grant to a team of scientists building OpenEarthScape, a set of models and simulations to help anticipate changes in river flow, beach erosion, landslides and more. All software will be shared as open-source with the scientific community and the public.

On December 8, students and professionals from LASP assumed control of NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission just after it lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida—the culmination of years of preparation, including thousands of hours of training and all-night rehearsals.

The Research & Innovation Office has announced the 2022 RIO Faculty Fellows cohort, comprised of 17 of the most promising faculty from across CU Boulder.

The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) has named CU Boulder a 2021 Innovation & Economic Prosperity (IEP) awardee. The IEP Innovation Award recognizes exemplary initiatives spurring innovation, entrepreneurship and technology-based economic development.

The new $7.8M facility will be operated under the Colorado Shared Instrumentation in Nanofabrication and Characterization (COSINC)—a multidisciplinary core research facility that provides access to state-of-the-art equipment in micro and nanofabrication, nanomaterials characterization and metrology.

A first-of-its-kind study out of CU Boulder’s Leeds School of Business found that entrepreneurs in the business of protecting the environment may be more effective at addressing climate change at a local level than sweeping policies or legacy companies trying to go green.

Drawing on electromagnetic and optical observations from Parker Solar Probe, a team led by LASP researcher and CU Boulder professor David Malaspina has produced the most complete picture yet of how hypervelocity dust impacts may damage a spacecraft and disturb its operations.

Eleven university innovators pitched their innovations at Lab Venture Challenge (LVC), an annual funding competition hosted by Venture Partners at CU Boulder that accelerates commercially promising technologies accelerate into impactful business ventures.