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Scientists and engineers at ²ÊÃñ±¦µä will soon take part in an effort to collect stardust—the tiny bits of matter that flow through the Milky Way Galaxy and were once the initial building blocks of our solar system. The pursuit is part of NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission.

Assistant Professor Robyn Macdonald (Aerospace Engineering) has been awarded a $600K NASA Early Career award to improve computational modeling of turbulence at hypersonic speeds, using supercomputers such as ²ÊÃñ±¦µä’s Blanca Condo Cluster and NASA’s Pleiades Supercomputer.

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.

To support ²ÊÃñ±¦µä’s advocacy in Washington, D.C., the university’s Federal Relations team is soliciting campus input to help identify the university’s priorities for congressionally directed and programmatic funding for federal Fiscal Year 2025.

A recent CIRES-led study reveals that when community college students head home after an immersive nine-week research program on the ²ÊÃñ±¦µä 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.

Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation and Dean of the Institutes Massimo Ruzzene named Alexa Van Dalsem director of the Office of Contracts and Grants (OCG) effective Jan. 1.

Scientists from across ²ÊÃñ±¦µä 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.

The Research & Innovation Office has announced the 2024 RIO Faculty Fellows cohort, which includes 16 faculty members from departments and research institutes across the campus. The diversity of disciplines included embodies the breadth of excellence represented in ²ÊÃñ±¦µä’s research, scholarship and creative work.

The High School New Venture Challenge (HSNVC) at ²ÊÃñ±¦µä and Business Bound at CU Denver connect high school students with their communities and cultivate entrepreneurial mindsets that span beyond basic business finance, fostering young innovators across Colorado.

²ÊÃñ±¦µä 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.