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Robots help build cars, fly planes, fight wars and provide health care; they play a role in countless industries, but for the most part, they don't work in chemistry labs. A team of CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ scientists plans to change that.

In the dream clinic of the future, patients struggling with mental illness might—in addition to sharing their feelings with a therapist—have their brains scanned to pinpoint regions that may be misfiring.

The turmoil at Twitter has many people turning to an alternative, Mastodon. CU expert Brian Keegan explains how the platform works and why it won't be the new Twitter. Read on The Conversation.

At the global climate summit next month, teachers and aspiring teachers will be in the audience and working with an educator's guide created at CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ to help their students understand how climate change is impacting people and communities and how they can help. Participating teachers may apply for graduate credit and a stipend—deadline Nov. 16.

Vitro3D, a startup founded by CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ doctoral students, just closed its first investment round of $1.3 million. The venture involves novel, high-speed volumetric 3D printing technology with potential applications in industries such as dental, medical and drug development.

CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ researcher Michele Moses talks about the future of affirmative action in higher education and how arguments around college admissions point to deeper divisions in U.S. society.

At the COP27 climate conference in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Alliance—an international initiative supported by CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ and others—announced the Human Rights Climate Commitments. The first draft of the commitments will be an outcome of the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit on campus Dec. 1–4.

GOP candidates Kari Lake, Herschel Walker and Dr. Mehmet Oz have caught people’s attention for outlandish stunts and false statements that are increasingly accepted in politics. CU experts Donna Goldstein and Kristen Drybread discuss on The Conversation.

School shootings have already reached a record high in 2022, with 40 so far killing 34 people and injuring 88. With a new $2 million grant from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence seeks to help 40 Colorado schools tackle the social and cultural roots of violence.

Learn from panelists at the upcoming Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit on how the law can be used to address the negative impacts of climate change on human rights around the world.