Media Coverage
- Under his NSF Career Award, Assistant Professor Wyatt Shields developed the "reverse science fair" in partnership with Alex Rose at CU Science Discovery. Graduate students from departments across ²ÊÃñ±¦µä presented their research, and Northglenn High School students served as the judges.
- A group of Indigenous students at the ²ÊÃñ±¦µä recently launched a prize-winning rocket and earned a life-changing trip to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
- The Washington Post looks at how an air monitoring system designed by ²ÊÃñ±¦µä's Mark Hernandez is helping a California restaurant keep its patrons safer during COVID.
- Good ventilation can reduce the risk of catching coronavirus. Environmental engineer Shelly Miller explains how to know if enough outside air is getting into a room and what to do if ventilation is bad.
- During his career, Born won seven NASA awards for technical and managerial contributions while working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., where he worked on numerous interplanetary missions.
- Assistant Professor Orit Peleg explores what we can learn from bees and nature that can then be applied to engineering.
- Associate Professor Evan Thomas offers analysis for The Conversation, writing: "One way to improve drought resilience is to improve the management of groundwater."
- Assistant Professor Christoffer Heckman offers analysis for The Conversation, writing: "What is this technology, which is already being used and marketed, and why is it raising concerns?"
- Mechanical engineering's Rishi Raj wanted students to explore how da Vinci is relevant in modern times using the same methods that da Vinci used — drawings and writings about all manner of topics.
- Our ever-growing appetite for intelligent, autonomous machines poses a host of ethical challenges, Assistant Professor Christoffer Heckman writes in The Conversation.