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Noted organic chemist Seth Marder has been named the new director of the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI), one of several affiliated with CU Boulder, effective July 2021. RASEI is a joint institute between CU Boulder and the U.S. Department of Energy鈥檚 National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

CU Boulder research attracted $613.9 million in funding in fiscal year 2020 for groundbreaking studies that, among other things, crack the code of the teenage brain, advance electric transportation and aim to understand how odors guide behavior.

The College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS) launched three new interdisciplinary research themes this summer as part of a broad push into critical areas of study. Join the virtual open house on Wednesday, November 4 to meet the IRT directors, hear their plans and learn how you can participate.

CU Boulder's third annual Research & Innovation Week鈥攃elebrating research, scholarship and creative work across campus鈥攖ook place from October 12鈥�16. Recordings of the three main events (featuring the MOSAiC mission, the RIO Faculty Fellows and the university's ATLAS Institute) are now available.

New findings from NASA鈥檚 OSIRIS-REx mission suggest that the interior of the asteroid Bennu could be weaker and less dense than its outer layers鈥攍ike a cr猫me-filled chocolate egg flying though space. The findings could give scientists new insights into the evolution of the solar system鈥檚 asteroids.

CU Boulder will be one of four national centers designed to advance the application of cryoelectron tomography (cryoET), which helps visualize in 3D the fine-structure of intact cells and tissues. CU Boulder scientists, who have been at the forefront of this technology, have won a six-year, $7M grant for the center.

Diseases of the blood have traditionally taken a full day, tedious lab work and expensive equipment to diagnose, but researchers at CU Boulder and CU Anschutz have developed a way to diagnose these conditions with greater sensitivity and precision in only one minute.

In September, the Yidan Prize Foundation awarded Carl Wieman the prestigious Yidan Prize in Education Research for his 鈥渃ontribution in developing new techniques and tools in STEM education.鈥� Wieman will use prize and project money to support CU Boulder鈥檚 award-winning PhET Interactive Simulations.

Thirty years after beginning her training as a postdoctoral scholar in the CU Boulder lab of Nobel laureate Thomas Cech, biochemist Jennifer Doudna on Wednesday won her own Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the co-development of the revolutionary genome editing tool CRISPR-Cas9.

The Research & Innovation Office (RIO) invites students, faculty, staff and the community to join Research & Innovation Week, Oct. 12鈥�16. The 2020 streamlined edition will feature three virtual events that you鈥檒l only be able to find at CU Boulder.