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As thousands of researchers, educators, policy makers and industry leaders gather in Denver this week for the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder faculty—including Nobel Laureate Tom Cech—will be prominently featured.  

A broad coalition of stakeholders gathered at Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder on January 25 at a first-of-its-kind Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Semiconductor Workforce and Innovation Forum, hosted in partnership with OEDIT, to celebrate the state and university’s key roles in sustaining a vibrant semiconductor ecosystem and to discuss how to shape its future.

In late January, NSF announced the Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ-Wyoming Climate Resilience Engine as a recipient of its inaugural Regional Innovation Engines program. The $160M award positions the CO-WY Engine at the forefront of the nation's environmental and climate technology initiatives.

A panel of artificial intelligence researchers—including Associate Professor Casey Fiesler (College of Media, Communication and Information)—look ahead to 2024 and describe the issues that AI developers, regulators and everyday people are likely to face, offering their hopes and recommendations.

A recent CIRES-led study reveals that when community college students head home after an immersive nine-week research program on the Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder campus, they don’t just take a new set of skills with them—they leave with more confidence in their ability to do science and a greater sense of belonging.

Scientists from across Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder attended the 2023 meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco to share their research about the search for life on Mars, small satellites viewing distant planets, how beavers transform landscapes, the fate of Antarctic ice sheets and more.

Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) have signed a Master Research Agreement, broadening a partnership between the two institutions and opening new collaboration pathways to address critical national security research and workforce needs.

The Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ State Legislature passed a bill directing the Natural Hazards Center to assess current emergency alert practices. The resulting report identified several ways the state can address gaps in funding, resources and practice to provide more inclusive alerts for all Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵans.

As far apart as Boulder and Grand Junction are, they’re brought together by a commitment to water conservation. Rooted in this shared commitment is Crossing the Divide: a program that fosters student collaboration across Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder and Grand Junction’s Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Mesa University.

An autonomous rescue robot created by a team of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder researchers and students placed third as the top US entry and earned $500K in prize money at a Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency Subterranean Challenge competition in 2021. Two years later, the team is pushing the technology even further.