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Last month, the first Human Performance Summit drew nearly 250 participants from the military, athletic, investment, scientific, academic and entrepreneurial communities to CU Boulder鈥檚 Champions Center.

The Lab Venture Challenge (LVC), hosted annually by Venture Partners at CU Boulder awards grants to campus researchers whose technologies demonstrate high commercial potential.

By using light-activated quantum dots to fire particular enzymes within microbial cells, CU Boulder researchers were able to create 鈥渓iving factories鈥� that eat harmful CO2 and convert it into useful products such as biodegradable plastic, gasoline, ammonia and biodiesel.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO)鈥攖he parent organization of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)鈥攈as just released a catalogue of benchmark data sets, including four from CU Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), to promote as trusted sources, simplify user access and support global policy makers.

In the not-so-distant future, researchers may be able to build atoms to your specifications with the click of a button. It鈥檚 still the stuff of science fiction, but a team at CU Boulder reports that it is getting closer when it comes to controlling and assembling particles called 鈥渂ig atoms."

Dr. Thomas H. Zurbuchen will discuss the process of writing successful NASA mission proposals and provide a brief update on how the mission review process may evolve in the near future. Researchers thinking about being a PI or joining a proposal team are invited to attend on Wednesday, June 5 at 2 p.m. in the Old Main Chapel at the CU Boulder Heritage Center.

Corporate travel has a been a market in need of some desperate transformation. Pana, a CU Boulder spinoff company, hopes to facilitate this change with a $10 million Series A round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Bessemer Venture Partners.

The 乐播传媒 Boulder has joined the IBM Q Network with the intent to seek collaborations with IBM Q scientists and engineers through the CUbit Quantum Initiative.

Ford Motor Co. is the most recent company to invest in Solid Power, a CU Boulder spinoff based in Louisville, CO that develops solid-state batteries.

In May, the Research & Innovation Office welcomed James Olson as the Executive Director of National Security Research, a role designed to engage researchers across campus with federal and industry sponsors in this sector. National security is widely understood to refer to a variety of dimensions nations must address to...