Six CU Boulder startups clean up at Advanced Industries Accelerator competition, winning $1.5M in grants

Six CU Boulder startups clean up at Advanced Industries Accelerator competition, winning $1.5M in grants

Dec. 17, 2019

Competing against companies from across the entire state, six CU Boulder startups won a total of $1.5M in grants from the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT)'s Advanced Industries Accelerator (AIA) Program.

ColdQuanta, CU Boulder startup, closes additional $10M in seed financing

ColdQuanta, CU Boulder startup, closes additional $10M in seed financing

Dec. 17, 2019

The additional seed round equity financing comes from its current investors, Maverick Ventures and Global Frontier Investments, and will be used to advance the development of ColdQuanta’s cold atom Quantum Core™ technology.

Asteroid named for CU Boulder researcher

Asteroid named for CU Boulder researcher

Dec. 17, 2019

Paul Sánchez is being recognized with a rare honor: an asteroid that bears his name. The International Astronomical Union has announced that asteroid 2000 VH57 is now officially named (20882) Paulsánchez.

$125 million for CU Boulder spinout Inscripta may usher in the next wave of genetic engineering

$125 million for CU Boulder spinout Inscripta may usher in the next wave of genetic engineering

Dec. 17, 2019

Inscripta, a digital genome engineering company spun out of CU Boulder research, has just raised another $125 million in a Series D financing on the heels of launching its revolutionary product, The Onyxâ„¢.

CU Boulder adds APLU Innovation & Economic Prosperity award to its innovation accolades

CU Boulder adds APLU Innovation & Economic Prosperity award to its innovation accolades

Dec. 12, 2019

CU Boulder was one of just three recipients of the coveted Innovation & Economic Prosperity (IEP) University designation at this year’s Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) Annual Meeting held in San Diego, CA in November.

National Academy of Inventors names Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation Terri Fiez as a 2019 Fellow

National Academy of Inventors names Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation Terri Fiez as a 2019 Fellow

Dec. 11, 2019

The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has named Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation and Professor of Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering Terri Fiez as a 2019 NAI Fellow. This honor is the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors. The NAI Fellow program highlights academic inventors who have...

CU Boulder prof and 100 women set sail for Antarctica

CU Boulder prof and 100 women set sail for Antarctica

Dec. 11, 2019

So far, three cohorts of women have successfully participated in Homeward Bound Project’s 12-month leadership program and traveled to Antarctica. The participants, who applied to the program from all over the world, are at various stages in their careers in science, technology, engineering, math and medicine (STEMM).

Daring space mission gets its first look at the sun

Daring space mission gets its first look at the sun

Dec. 11, 2019

Space plasma physicist David Malaspina is part of a team of CU Boulder scientists who contributed to a signal processing electronics board that is integral to the FIELDS experiment, one of four suites of instruments onboard NASA's Parker Solar Probe.

iFeather team with check

Lab Venture Challenge awards $900,000 to promising bioscience, physical science and engineering ventures

Nov. 25, 2019

This year's LVC winners included SickStick, Exocure Therapeutics, Programmable Gectosomes, Ultrathin Endoscopes, iFeather, Octave Photonics and Theia.

2020 Research & Innovation Office Faculty Fellows cohort unveiled

2020 Research & Innovation Office Faculty Fellows cohort unveiled

Nov. 22, 2019

The Research & Innovation Office today announced the 2020 RIO Faculty Fellows cohort, which is comprised of 13 of CU Boulder’s most promising faculty.

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