New information about using IRB templates

Dec. 11, 2018

Beginning December 21, 2018 , the IRB will no longer accept Initial Applications for non-exempt research that do not include the most current versions of the protocol and consent form templates. This is to ensure that all new studies will be in compliance with the newly revised Code of Federal...

Innovative research lands two CU Boulder affiliates in National Academy of Inventors

Innovative research lands two CU Boulder affiliates in National Academy of Inventors

Dec. 10, 2018

The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) today named two members of the CU Boulder research community to its class of fellows for 2018: Alan Weimer (Chemical & Biological Engineering) and John "Jan" Hall (JILA, Physics).

Research & Innovation Seed Grant Mixer

Dec. 6, 2018

Need to Know When: December 14, 12:00 - 1:30pm Where: Norlin Library E206 Register: Email rioseedgrant@colorado.edu - in your email, please indicate if you would like to give a 2-minute presentation. Interested in applying for a Research & Innovation Seed Grant , but need help identifying collaborators? We can help...

Corey Neu pitching his new innovation next-generation dermal fillers

Lab Venture Challenge awards $900,000 to promising ventures, including artificial muscle and dermal filler innovations

Nov. 20, 2018

Fourteen finalists pitched their innovations at the first annual Lab Venture Challenge (LVC), a funding competition run by the Technology Transfer Office (TTO) and designed to help commercially-promising technologies accelerate into impactful business ventures.

 CU Boulder ranks best in world for geosciences, rises to No. 43 overall in global standings

CU Boulder ranks best in world for geosciences, rises to No. 43 overall in global standings

Nov. 19, 2018

CU Boulder is ranked No. 1 in the world for geosciences, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2019 Best Global Universities standings. In the four previous years, CU Boulder held the No. 2 spot for geosciences.

Engineers, students played key role in hunt for alien worlds

Engineers, students played key role in hunt for alien worlds

Nov. 19, 2018

Lee Reedy, flight director for Kepler at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), said that the Kepler mission’s legacy is far from over. To date, it has found a confirmed 2,662 planets beyond our solar system. “And while it will no longer collect data, Kepler will live for a dozen years or more because there are going to be people mining the data it has collected for at least that long,” he said.

New gene therapy eases chronic pain in dogs; human trials underway

New gene therapy eases chronic pain in dogs; human trials underway

Thirty years in the making, the opioid-free, long-lasting shot has been used in more than 40 dogs with impressive results, and ultimately Watkins believes it could play an important role in addressing the nation’s chronic pain epidemic.

Two new CubeSats will study physics of the sun and its impact on life on Earth

Two new CubeSats will study physics of the sun and its impact on life on Earth

Two miniature satellites designed by researchers at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) are scheduled to launch later this month on Spaceflight’s SSO-A: SmallSat Express mission onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

Kristine M. Larson

Kristine Larson to share groundbreaking GPS work on Dec. 5 as Distinguished Research Lecturer

Nov. 13, 2018

Kristine M. Larson of the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences will deliver a Distinguished Research Lecture about traditional and leading-edge applications of Global Positioning System (GPS) at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 5. The talk will be held in the Glenn Miller Ballroom at the University...

Solar panels in front of a blue sky

CU Boulder startup awarded $250,000 grant to develop more efficient solar power technology

Nov. 12, 2018

A power electronics company born out of CU Boulder, BREK Electronics Corp., received a $250,000 Early Stage Capital and Retention (ESCR) matching grant from the Advanced Industries Accelerator (AIA) sponsored by the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (COEDIT).

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