Pushing Boundaries

On two exciting nights of pitches and prizes, 10 startups brought a broad range of ideas to the stage, involving more sustainability in gardening, the downsides of social media, practical prosthetics for kids, sustainable water filters and hydroponic produce for all. Across the two events, eight teams took home a total of $20,000.

After a successful three-year trial run, the Innovation Incubator program is being made permanent with the goal of further innovating cross-discipline teaching in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Sixteen military units from across the country traveled to Boulder March 4–5 to compete in the CU Boulder Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps' annual Colorado Meet. CU's team took first place in the endurance race and was the overall winner of the event.

Through scholarship and a popular podcast, CU Boulder professor Mathias Nordvig brings the Viking Age to the 21st century.

Louise Jefferson was a Black cartographer, artist, photographer, illustrator, calligrapher and leader. In 2021, the University Libraries acquired a rare print of hers, an illustrated map. Read more.

As one of the first interdisciplinary bioaerosol labs established in the U.S., the Environmental Engineering Microbiology and Disinfection Lab at CU Boulder is home to one of the biggest bioaerosol chambers in the country at an academic institution.

Seven CMCI journalism students, with the help of established journalists in the field, are shining a light on the undercovered impacts of the Marshall Fire through a recently published investigation.

CU Boulder again attracted record levels of research funding—$658 million in gifts and awards, including $474 million from federal agencies—to power its research and innovation enterprise in 2021–22.

The final Entrepreneurial Product Development project seemed straightforward. But the professor wanted to push her students out of their comfort zones, so she's enlisted a Theatre & Dance professor to add a twist to the assignment.

At a sold-out talk, Robin Wall Kimmerer discussed the importance of tapping Indigenous knowledge “not so that we can go back to some imagined past but so we can go forward together and find solutions that are not embedded only by the Western worldview.”