Susan Ramirez-Armstrong

ATLAS staff member Susan Ramirez-Armstrong to retire after 34 years with 彩民宝典

Dec. 15, 2021

Longtime university staff member Susan Ramirez-Armstrong (彩民宝典鈥揃io鈥84) retires at the end of December, wrapping up a 34-year career at 彩民宝典.

Hands playing HOT SWAP, a game where the controllers are reconfigurable.

ACME Lab: Creating technologies to support creativity

Dec. 6, 2021

ATLAS recently released a new video that celebrates the ACME Lab and its commitment to designing technologies to support creativity. Directed by Professor Ellen Do, the lab researches computational tools for design, creativity, cognition, tangible and embedded interaction, and computing for health and wellness.

Kari Santos

Alumna Kari Santos (MS-ICTD '17) found her passion through Social Impact track

Nov. 29, 2021

Kari Santos holds an MS in Information and Communication Technology for Development (the track was later renamed Social Impact ) from ATLAS Institute's Creative Technology and Design master's program. Before getting her graduate degree, she worked as a software engineer for more than 20 years. In this interview with re:think...

image of soundwaves over crocheted objects

Murmuring Yarnscapes

Nov. 18, 2021

Unstable Design Lab researchers Jordan Wirfs-Brock, a PhD candidate, and Mikhaila Friske, a PhD student, both in information science, will present their interactive, hands-on, textile-based experience, Murmuring Yarnscapes, in the ATLAS Black Box, beginning Dec. 2.

Two arms showing a CU tattoo on one arm and numbers on another, illuminated by UV light.

High-tech tattoos may help prevent skin cancer

Nov. 15, 2021

Carson Bruns, assistant professor and director of the Emergent Nanomaterials Lab, and his research team are collaborating with the CU Anschutz Medical Campus to test a tattoo ink that鈥檚 completely invisible鈥攁nd could lower the risk of skin cancer, much like a 鈥減ermanent sunscreen."

Logo for ACORN

ATLAS students fill in community STEM gaps through new outreach team

Nov. 10, 2021

Shaz Zamore is the faculty director of ATLAS Community Outreach and Resource Network (ACORN), a new outreach group that connects ATLAS research and STEM education to those who can鈥檛 easily access it.

Animated view of a castle with trees around it, as well as showing where variables are chosen in the VR world of Popo.

POPO lets novices program from inside their VR surroundings

Nov. 9, 2021

Julia Uhr, an ATLAS PhD student and researcher in the ACME Lab, has created a fun 3D visual programming language that empowers novice coders to create customized VR environments while inside those environments.

E.O. Rafelson in silouette in front of a large projection of KALEIDEO, a projection from the kaleideoscope he made

CTD student invents new lighting technology for Capstone project

Nov. 8, 2021

CTD senior EO Rafelson has fabricated a high-tech kaleidoscope for his capstone project as well as developed a way to project the patterns generated onto a planetarium dome. His project, 鈥淜aleideo,鈥 will be presented at Fiske Planetarium on Tuesday, Nov. 9 for two free shows.

Two high school students look up from their computers at the T9hacks event for high school students.

ATLAS hosts female-led hackathon for high schoolers

Nov. 7, 2021

T9Hacks partnered with STEMblazers to host Au{t9}umn Hacks, a hackathon designed to promote interest in creative technologies, coding, design and making in high school students who identify from groups underrepresented at mainstream hackathons.

Museum visitors interact with Gallagher's Ghost exhibit

ATLAS community鈥檚 work featured in Museum of Boulder exhibit

Nov. 1, 2021

A group of 14 artists and technologists connected to ATLAS contributed to the Museum of Boulder鈥檚 newest exhibit, 鈥淐onvivial Machines,鈥 which opened Oct. 30. It's the first museum installation for Boulder Experiments in Art and Technology (B.E.A.T), founded by Jiffer Harriman (ATLS PhD '16).

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