NSF CAREER Workshop

Proposal Budgeting 101

Feb. 26, 2018

If You Go: Who : Faculty and staff What : Proposal Budgeting 101 workshop When : Thursday, March 22, noon to 1:30 p.m. (lunch provided) Where : University Memorial Center (UMC), Aspen Room RSVP : Due March 14 by 5 p.m. Stressed about developing budgets for proposals? Our Proposal Budgeting...

GOLD instrument

GOLD space weather instrument launches

NASA's Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) instrument, built by CU Boulder, will investigate the dynamic intermingling of space and Earth's uppermost atmosphere—and is the first NASA science mission to fly an instrument as a commercially hosted payload.

Aerospace Day at the Colorado Capitol

2018 Aerospace Day at the Colorado Capitol

Join the conversation about how Colorado became one of the largest space economies per capita in the nation—and how Colorado legislators can effectively support aerospace in our state.

Night shift workers

Frequent night shift work boosts likelihood of Type 2 diabetes, study shows

Feb. 12, 2018

Healthcare workers, security guards and other employees who periodically work the night shift are significantly more likely to have Type 2 diabetes than workers who work only days, according to a sweeping new study by researchers from CU Boulder and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) in Boston.

Ocean waves

Sea level rise accelerating

Feb. 12, 2018

Current sea level rise projections assume a constant rate, but CIRES fellow Steve Nerem found the rate is actually accelerating.

CubeSat team

CU Boulder CubeSat team wins Air Force university competition

The MAXWELL cubesat, a University of Colorado Boulder Smead Aerospace graduate project, has been selected as a winner in the Air Force University Nanosatellite Program Flight Selection Review.

Solar panels

CU Boulder announces membership in new University Climate Change Coalition

CU Boulder announced it has joined the University Climate Change Coalition (UC3), a newly formed coalition of 13 leading North American research universities that have united to help communities achieve their climate goals and accelerate the transition to a low-carbon future.

Galaxy in space

Supermassive black holes can feast on one star per year

CU Boulder researchers have discovered a mechanism that explains the persistence of asymmetrical stellar clusters surrounding supermassive black holes in some galaxies and suggests that during post-galactic merger periods, orbiting stars could be flung into the black hole and destroyed at a rate of one per year.

Neuron

What are memories made of? Study sheds light on key protein

Jan. 24, 2018

Ask a nonscientist what memories are made of and you’ll likely conjure images of childhood birthday parties or wedding days. Charles Hoeffer thinks about proteins.

Next-gen flexible robots move and heal like us

Next-gen flexible robots move and heal like us

Engineers have developed a new class of soft, electrically activated devices capable of mimicking the expansion and contraction of natural muscles, a major advance in the field of robotics.

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