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- Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Engineering experienced another record-breaking year for research funding in 2020, receiving $134 million overall and dwarfing the 2019 total of $108 million.
- For three years, Air Quality Inquiry has been reaching K-12 students across rural Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ. This year, Daniel Knight and his team extended the program across the globe to reach Public Lab Mongolia, a nonprofit whose mission is to make data available to the Mongolian public.
- Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder and Lockheed Martin will lead a new space mission to capture the first-ever closeup look at a mysterious class of solar system objects: binary asteroids.These bodies are pairs of asteroids that orbit around each other in space, much like
- A gift of $2 million from the Mortenson family caps an impressive year of growth for the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering, including new federal and nonprofit funding totaling more than $11 million and significant research findings.
- Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder's John Crimaldi will lead a groundbreaking new international research network dubbed Odor2Action. The work is aimed at understanding how animals use information from odors in their environment to guide behavior, with far-ranging implications for our understanding of the human brain.
- In May 2020, Christian Cooper, a Black bird watcher, was strolling through Central Park in New York City when he ran into a white woman walking her dog off-leash.
- Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder will play a major role in a new center focused on developing infrastructure and systems that facilitate the widespread adoption of electric vehicles.
- The National Science Foundation has announced that Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder will receive a $25 million award to launch a new quantum science and engineering research center. The new center will be led by physicist Jun Ye and is a partnership with 11 other research organizations in the United States and abroad.
- New assistant dean for access, inclusion and student programs, Dr. Terri D. Wright, joins Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder College of Engineering and Applied Science on July 20, 2020. Through her path from academia, to industry and into academic administration she had developed a depth of expertise that will inform and guide a holistic view of student achievement and support.
- The novel coronavirus may be able to travel from person to person through tiny particles floating in the air, according to a recent letter signed by 239 scientists from across the globe.Â