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Henry Luce Foundation Theology Program Grants: Advancing Public Knowledge on Race, Justice, and Religion in America Please see the full solicitation for complete information about the funding opportunity. Below is a summary assembled by the Research & Innovation Office (RIO). Program Summary The Henry Luce Foundation鈥檚 Theology Program invites new...

Why are some people more resilient to viruses than others? Ed Chuong, an assistant professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology at CU Boulder, proposes an intriguing answer: Exposure to ancient parasites by our ancestors forever altered our genome, shaping the varied responses of our immune systems today.

Judges from the local entrepreneurial ecosystem awarded a record total of 12 grants鈥攗p to $125,000 each鈥攆or the top physical science, engineering and bioscience innovations demonstrating high commercial potential, a clear path to a compelling market and strong scientific support.

The Material Characterization Facility鈥攐perated within Colorado Shared Instrumentation in Nanofabrication and Characterization (COSINC) service center鈥攔ecently relocated to its permanent home in the Sustainability, Energy and Environment Laboratory building on east campus.

"Albert"鈥擟oldQuanta鈥檚 quantum-matter system on the cloud鈥攁llows users to remotely cool atoms to near absolute zero to create a state of matter in which 鈥渜uantum-mechanical behavior comes into play on a large scale.鈥� Users can control, study and even photograph 鈥渢he wavefunction of a quantum cloud of atoms."

Dr. Thomas Berger, the executive director of CU Boulder's Space Weather Technology, Research and Education Center, is leading a team that has received a two-year, $496K grant to design a better forecasting system for solar magnetic eruptions on the sun, using machine learning.

Margaret Murnane and Henry Kapteyn, physics professors and JILA Fellows at CU Boulder, have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors. Murnane and Kapteyn pioneered technologies for generating coherent X-rays, which helped propel research in dynamic processes in atoms, molecules and materials.

Led by CU Boulder and designed to push the frontiers of quantum sensing, Quantum Systems through Entangled Science and Engineering (Q-SEnSE) involves 37 researchers from 12 organizations located in 6 different states (including one collaborating from Europe).

The Office of Conflicts of Interest & Commitment (COIC) is transitioning to a new InfoEd reporting system, which includes a revamp of the disclosure form (DEPA Form). The transition to the InfoEd reporting system and the new DEPA Form is underway and will be in effect for 2021.

The AB Nexus Research Collaboration Grant program announced its inaugural round of grants totaling $625K for novel research projects integrating expertise from the CU Anschutz and Boulder campuses. The projects involve a broad range of research themes related to basic science and translational approaches.