The team in a laboratory.

Mold in Space: NASA grant to study space station fungus

Nov. 1, 2019

Principal Investigator Luis Zea working in the lab. The International Space Station has a problem with fungus and mold – and the ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ is sending new research to space to find solutions. It is living and growing in secret aboard the station, hidden behind panels and inside...

¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ's campus as seen from the air

Faculty recognized with 3 governor’s awards for high-impact research

Nov. 1, 2019

The award recognizes 13 people, four of them affiliated with various departments and group at ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ: Greg Rieker, Caroline Alden, Sean Coburn, and Robert Wright. Their colleagues are from NIST and LongPath Technologies.

Three students working on creating content for the library

$3.2 million NSF grant will help expand TeachEngineering digital library

Nov. 1, 2019

The Integrated Teaching and Learning (ITL) Program recently won a $3.2 million award from the National Science Foundation to increase the impact of the TeachEngineering digital library. It is the largest award in the program’s 25-year history and will propel the K-12 engineering library’s growth well into the future.

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Startup success

Nov. 1, 2019

College goes all-in on entrepreneurship An entrepreneur’s journey might never be painless. But CU Engineering is going all in to ensure that its graduates are ready to tackle the challenges of launching and scaling a startup. Since naming entrepreneurship a priority in its Strategic Vision and hiring its first entrepreneurship...

Syringe drawing a vaccine

Breaking the cold chain and making the shot count: Garcea and Randolph awarded Gates Foundation grant for vaccine research

Nov. 1, 2019

New research from Professor Robert Garcea of the BioFrontiers Institute and Gillespie Professor Theodore Randolph of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering is showing encouraging results in stabilizing vaccines and circumventing the refrigeration requirement, earning an additional $1.2 million in grant funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Wage warrior

Nov. 1, 2019

An entrepreneur, to me, is a person who sees an unmet need. When you know that you have to solve this problem, you become an entrepreneur in that moment. Alumnus tackles financial inequality through mobile technology For the roughly 100 million Americans living paycheck-to-paycheck, the financial services industry can be...

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Engineering startups in the news

Nov. 1, 2019

A desalination facility in Dubai along the Persian Gulf coastline

Salt solution: Researcher sets out to make desalination more efficient

Oct. 31, 2019

¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ postdoctoral researcher Omkar Supekar of mechanical engineering is working on a technique that could make desalination facilities more efficient by changing the way they detect chemicals that clog up their filters.

Two children fill water containers from a groundwater supply system in Turkana, Kenya

Improving drought resilience in East Africa with sensors, satellites and machine learning

Oct. 30, 2019

A team of researchers led by Professor Evan Thomas, director of the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering, has been awarded a three-year, $660,000 grant by NASA to join the SERVIR Applied Sciences Team, a joint venture between NASA and the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Water samples collected from the communities and stored in a travel container.

Partnership puts valuable water quality information from Western Slope online

Oct. 30, 2019

Results from a new volunteer survey of private drinking water quality on the Western Slope through a partnership between ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ, Delta County and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are available online now.

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