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Alumnus’ startup harnesses blockchain for secure, trustworthy PPE purchasing

March 29, 2021

Alumnus uses technology background to help small and medium-size companies order of PPE during COVID-19.

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Bees form scent-driven phone tree to pass along messages

March 29, 2021

Honeybees play a scent-driven game of telephone to guide members of a colony back to their queen, according to a new study led by «Ƶ.

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Workforce development key to new center focused on electrification of the transportation system

March 28, 2021

Electrifying the transportation sector is key to addressing air quality and climate challenges globally. However, building the infrastructure needed to make that shift will be a complicated process and one that is essential to get right the first time.

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Spike protein mapping could lead to more effective COVID-19 vaccine boosters and therapies

March 25, 2021

New research from the Sprenger and Whitehead groups aims to identify and map common mutations in “Spike” proteins—the proteins that allow the virus to enter and infect cells. This would provide researchers with a roadmap to anticipate and counteract the development of future SARS-CoV-2 strains with effective vaccines and vaccine boosters.

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Supporting one another after the King Soopers shooting

March 23, 2021

The road to recovery from this tragic event will be a long one, but our community is kind, caring and resilient.

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Engineering part of new cutting-edge microscopy center

March 18, 2021

Researchers at the «Ƶ have won a $1.2 million award to establish a Center for Light Sheet Microscopy and Data Science, the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation has announced.

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CU Sounding Rocket Lab: On a Mission to Space

March 18, 2021

What does it feel like to work on a project for months and have its success or failure determined in an instant? To move through rigorous, painstaking design and analysis and know it comes down to a single opportunity for success? To spend innumerable late nights...

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CU Hyperloop team "digs in" for a shot at victory

March 17, 2021

It started with close to 400. Now it’s down to 12. The CU «Ƶ Hyperloop team is one of only a dozen finalists for The Boring Company’s Not-A-Boring Competition, rubbing shoulders with the likes of MIT and ETH Zurich.

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Research on soil moisture aims to improve irrigation models

March 16, 2021

CU «Ƶ researchers gave computer models of land surface different amounts of information on soil moisture and then evaluated how well irrigation can be predicted from them. Being able to do this on a large scale would be a useful step toward understanding how sensitive irrigation and evapotranspiration are to climate change.

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Computer Science Post-Baccalaureate Summer Semester - Apply for Free!

March 12, 2021

The Computer Science Post-Baccalaureate program is excited to announce we are waiving all application fees for the summer 2021 semester.

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