Alumni in outdoors

Alumni-founded website connects outdoor users with nonprofits

May 14, 2021

Sarah Brondum (MechEngr'19) and Spencer Wegner (CompSci'20) co-founded Bevara to help outdoor enthusiasts connect with Colorado’s outdoor nonprofits. Through Bevara’s web platform, users are able to find donation, volunteer, and advocacy opportunities that contribute to land stewardship efforts across the state.

Stephanie Bryant in the lab

Bryant to become new Materials Science and Engineering Program director

May 14, 2021

Professor Stephanie J. Bryant was recently elected by her fellow Materials Science and Engineering faculty to lead the program as its new director, starting on July 1.

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Successful Spring Research Support Office Webinar Series will continue in fall

May 14, 2021

The popular Research Support Office Webinar Series will continue in fall 2021, once again giving researchers in the college a chance to engage directly with researchers and program managers from various funding agencies.

An illustration showing different ventilation options for rooms based on their purpose

To prevent next pandemic, scientists say we must regulate air like food and water

May 13, 2021

In a Perspectives piece publishing in Science on May 14, they call for a “paradigm shift” in combating airborne pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

Pawel Sawicki

CU «Ƶ hypersonics modeling research honored at AIAA

May 12, 2021

Pawel Sawicki, a PhD candidate in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at CU «Ƶ, is the lead author on a paper that recently won the AIAA Thermophysics Best Student Paper award at SciTech 2021.

Nina Vance in the lab with a student

Vance to study changes in particles as they move between indoor, outdoor environments

May 12, 2021

Marina Vance – an assistant in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Environmental Engineering Program – was recently awarded an NSF CAREER Award to understand how aerosol particles transform as they move between indoor and outdoor environments and what the implications of that process are.

Visualization of satellites in orbit around Earth (Credit: NASA)

Crashing Chinese rocket highlights growing dangers of space debris

May 12, 2021

The event has shown the potential dangers that come from humanity’s expanding presence in space, said Hanspeter Schaub of the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences.

Xudong Chen and Shu-Wei Huang

New framework will enable better control of large networked systems

May 10, 2021

Xudong Chen's research focuses on geometric control theory, stochastic process, optimization, and game theory. His project is titled “Resilient and Scalable Framework for Control of Mutli-agent Systems: Ensemble.”

Erica Landreth outdoors by a lake

Erica Landreth, Academic Engagement Award

May 5, 2021

Erica Landreth is graduating in May with a degree in applied mathematics, as well as a certificate in neuroscience and a minor in chemistry. She said that interdisciplinarity has become the cornerstone of her academic experience. During an internship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Lab, she worked on...

Simon Julien with the Flatirions in the background

Simon Julien, Undergraduate Research Award

May 5, 2021

Simon Julien, who will complete his BS in applied mathematics in May, said he chose engineering because it was the most influential route he could take to play a role in the fight against climate change. After five semesters as an undergraduate researcher and two internships at the National Renewable...

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