Showcase Week celebrates the hard work and many achievements of over 200 students as they close out their undergraduate careers. Since August 2020, these students have been working through the design process from start to finish and have engineered solutions to real-world problems.
The latest episode of Buff Innovator Insights introduces you to Jennifer Ho, whose research, scholarship and teaching address some of the most challenging issues facing the world today. Listen in to hear from an expert on issues of race and intersectionality.
This week's Buff Innovator Insights podcast features Evan Thomas, who is working with partners around the world to expand access to safe water, sanitation, energy, food, shelter and infrastructure.
Symmetry is all around us. And yet, protons鈥攖he tiny, positively charged particles at the center of every atom鈥攁re curiously asymmetrical, a fact that has long intrigued scientists. Researchers are exploring further.
A modest new house in Fraser, Colorado鈥攃onsidered the coldest town in the lower-48鈥攊s no ordinary home. With it, a team of Buffs will compete this week in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon for the first time since 2007.
Hear how Sona Dimidjian, director of the Ren茅e Crown Wellness Institute, is using the lessons of her life and early career to lead research, programs and courses to help ensure every young person has the opportunity to thrive, and more.
A dedicated team of faculty, staff and students has been working around the clock since the start of the fall semester to monitor the virus that causes COVID-19 in our campus wastewater. It's been critical to keeping campus safe during this pandemic, and systems like it could even help us catch the next one.
Hear about Lori Peek's formative years in small-town Kansas, her love for teaching and mentoring and how her research is helping us learn from disasters like Hurricane Katrina and the COVID-19 pandemic. Peek is a professor, faculty associate at the Institute of Behavioral Science and the director of the Natural Hazards Center.
The CU Boulder Hyperloop team is one of only a dozen finalists for The Boring Company鈥檚 Not-A-Boring Competition, rubbing shoulders with the likes of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Eidgen枚ssische Technische Hochschule Zurich.
Only one student rocketry team has successfully passed the internationally-accepted boundary of space, the 100km Karman line. The CU Boulder Sounding Rocket Lab will join that league soon鈥攖hey know it won't be easy, but they're ready for the challenge.
