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Konrad (Koni) Steffen always had a smile and a kind word to say 鈥� to another scientist, a staff member, to the graduate student of a colleague. And it seemed, at times, like he could do anything: brief Congress, ford a meltwater river on a snowmachine, mesmerize journalists with tales of his time on the ice.

The Research & Innovation Office will host three 75-minute webinars Aug. 6鈥�12 featuring some of CU Boulder鈥檚 top researchers working side-by-side with the campus's exceptional operations experts. The series highlights how the most up-to-date research is shaping campus operations during the pandemic.

By combining expertise at both CU Anschutz and CU Boulder in biosciences, engineering, biotechnology, space, pharmacology, public health, mental health and many other areas, AB Nexus will create opportunities to drive innovation and win competitive research awards.

Today, NSF announced that CU Boulder will receive a $25 million award to launch a new quantum science and engineering research center. The new center will be led by physicist Jun Ye and is a partnership with 11 other research organizations in the United States and abroad.

Created over 20 years ago, the conference is NSBE鈥檚 premier training program for approximately 250 national and regional officers. NSBE's mission is to end the underrepresentation of Black engineering students in the U.S. by graduating 10,000 Black engineers annually by 2025.

This month, the Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) is slated to blast off aboard an H-IIA rocket. Since 2014, researchers at CU Boulder have worked side-by-side with dozens of young scientists and engineers from the United Arab Emirates to help them make this mission a reality.

The three-day entrepreneurial academy, which will be held in fall 2020, will train eight rural entrepreneurs and leaders from the Startup Colorado network to become policy advocates and help them realize their ability to provide direct input to local, state and federal policymakers.

Whether it鈥檚 on top of a self-driving car or embedded inside the latest gadget, Light Detection and Ranging (lidar) systems will likely play an important role in our technological future, enabling vehicles to 鈥榮ee鈥� in real-time, phones to map three-dimensional images and enhancing augmented reality in video games.

Starting on Monday, July 13, CU Boulder鈥檚 research enterprise will begin transitioning to 鈥渆xpanded work on-campus and in the field鈥� (Phase 2) from the current limited on-campus and field work (Phase 1).

CU Boulder has been selected to lead a new multi-university, industry-focused research Center on Pervasive Personalized Intelligence through the National Science Foundation. The new center, created in partnership with Oregon State University, already has support from several global corporations.