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- Lucky Vidmar (CompSci'94; M'97)Â is working to empower ethics-focused engineers and honor his friend and mentor through the Moulakis Lecture Series within the Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics & Society.
- A new program guides engineering students on an “entrepreneurial journey to learn the business side of innovation." The ESCEND program combines entrepreneurship courses with experiences and resources that give ²ÊÃñ±¦µä engineering students the chance to create a product and then pitch it to investors.
- Lab technicians, all from populations historically excluded from engineering, collected data during the height of the pandemic at Denver public schools for environmental engineering professor Mark Hernandez's air ventilation research. Here are the stories of four of those technicans, Halle Sago, Sylvia Akol, Jeronimo Palacios Luna and Ximena Duenas Ibarra, and what they're working for.
- Keith Molenaar is a first-generation college graduate and the acting dean of the College of Engineering and Applied science. His journey through college relied on the encouragement of his parents and the friends who supported him.
- A digital wellness program funded by ²ÊÃñ±¦µä’s Community Impact Grant is being developed to help middle-school girls counteract the negative psychological impacts of social media. Creative Technology and Design graduate student researchers in the program's Social Impact track will work with lead investigator Annie Margaret from the ATLAS Institute to design the program.
- The 2021 Research & Innovation Seed Grants, announced by the ²ÊÃñ±¦µä Office of the Provost and Research & Innovation Office (RIO), are funding 16 new proposals for up to $50,000, including two new ²ÊÃñ±¦µä Grand Challenge projects.