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- is suspending the “Request to Return” to on-campus and field work process effective immediately. We will return to full research, scholarship and creative work operations effective Monday, May 17.
- The first season of Buff Innovator Insights, a weekly podcast from the Research & Innovation Office (RIO), wraps up with episodes about the use of artificial intelligence in education, and how data synthesis could change the way we live with wildfires.
- The 2021 Research & Innovation Seed Grants, announced by the Office of the Provost and Research & Innovation Office (RIO), are funding 16 new proposals for up to $50,000, including two new Grand Challenge projects.
- On Thursday, April 22, Professor Kent Hutchison will deliver the 116th Distinguished Research Lecture, Understanding the Risks and Benefits of Cannabis Across the Lifespan. Hutchison was one of two faculty members selected to receive the 2020 Distinguished Research Lectureship, which is among the most esteemed honors bestowed by the faculty upon a faculty member at .
- Gary Henry has been named the new Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research, Director of the Office of Contracts and Grants (OCG). Henry will begin serving in this role starting May 1, 2021. He will fully assume the position on July 1 when Denitta Ward, who currently serves in the role, retires.
- Upcoming episodes of Buff Innovator Insights, a weekly podcast from the Research & Innovation Office (RIO), feature faculty tackling some of the toughest challenges facing the world today: global poverty and racism.
- Victor M. Bright of the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering and Kent Hutchison of the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience have been selected to receive the 2020 Distinguished Research Lectureship.
- New episodes of Buff Innovator Insights, a weekly podcast from the Research & Innovation Office (RIO), will feature Lori Peek, director of the Natural Hazards Center, and Sona Dimidjian, director of the Renée Crown Wellness Institute.
- Follow Dr. Jun Ye, director of the CUbit Quantum Initiative, from his childhood in China to helping realize the vast potential of quantum science and technology at today.
- The podcast will offer a behind-the-curtain look at some of the most ground-breaking innovations in the world—all emanating from the campus—along with the personal journeys that made those discoveries possible. The first episode of the inaugural season premiered on Thursday, March 18.