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The internet’s freedom of connectivity and information is plagued by real and mounting challenges. Blake Reid, clinical professor of law specializing in technology policy and telecom and disability law at CU Boulder, offers a deeper look at how possible solutions could alter the web as we know it today.

The Research & Innovation Office has announced that Joe Dragavon, PhD, has been named interim director of Core Facilities and Shared Instrumentation, effective February 1. Since the departure of the previous director, Claudius Mundoma, Dragavon has played an instrumental role in maintaining the momentum of the university’s core facilities community.

The $900K award—a highly prestigious early-career grant for junior faculty members—was awarded to Assistant Professor Orit Peleg (Computer Science) to support her research into how fireflies in a swarm synchronize their lighting displays. Fireflies' elegant, distributed communication systems could eventually help us with our own telecommunications through new ideas about compressing information and distributed networks.

The student team's Drone Recharging Operational Payload System (DROPS) received top honors at SciTech. The autonomous cargo delivery system, designed for uncrewed aerial vehicles, is capable of dropping off and picking up drone cargo without the need for human intervention.

Corrella Detweiler, professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology, and Wei Zhang, professor of chemistry and chair of the Chemistry Department, have been named senior members of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Senior members of the NAI are active faculty, scientists and administrators who have been successful in patents, licensing and commercialization and have produced technologies that have been or aspire to be transformational.

“In these cold molecular clouds, you’re creating the first building blocks that will, in the end, form stars and planets,” said Jordy Bouwman, research associate at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) and assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at CU Boulder.

The U.S. military shot down what officials have called a Chinese surveillance balloon off the coast of South Carolina on Feb. 4, 2023. Iain Boyd, professor of aerospace engineering sciences, explains how the balloons work and what they can see. Read it on The Conversation.

A new NASA report shows that CU Boulder is the top university recipient of NASA astrophysics technology grants. The majority of this funding was granted to researchers at LASP and the Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy (CASA), a center affiliated with the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences.

With support from the Anschutz-Boulder (AB) Nexus, CU researchers have developed a new strategy for transforming medical images (e.g. CT or MRI scans) into detailed 3D computer models—an important step toward printing lifelike representations of human anatomy that medical professionals can poke and prod in the real world.

The hotel industry saw bookings sink and costs rise during lockdowns, while the Great Resignation has made it harder to recoup staff as tourism rebounds. Omni Interlocken in Broomfield engaged teams of first-year students at the Leeds School of Business to bring in fresh perspectives on associate retention.