wind turbines in the North Sea

Offshore wind turbines vulnerable to Category 5 hurricane gusts

June 7, 2017

Offshore wind turbines built according to current standards may not be able to withstand the powerful gusts of a Category 5 hurricane, creating potential risk for any such turbines built in hurricane-prone areas.

Galaxy cluster

²ÊÃñ±¦µä researchers explain mystery of 'banging' galaxy clusters

June 6, 2017

Two galaxy clusters in the process of merging created a layer of surprisingly hot gas between them that ²ÊÃñ±¦µä astronomers believe is from turbulence caused by banging into each other at supersonic speeds.

A high school student throws a beanbag while wearing vision-distorting goggles

Rural Colorado students get a taste of college life

June 1, 2017

Middle and high school students from Byers, Elizabeth, Kiowa, Hugo, Limon, Burlington, and other regions spent three days at ²ÊÃñ±¦µä this week as part of a program aimed at giving talented and gifted youth from rural districts a preview of possibilities to come.

Tethered balloon kite above the trees in Portugal

Global wind-mapping project commences in Portugal

June 1, 2017

An international team that includes ²ÊÃñ±¦µä researchers has begun the world's largest wind-mapping project in Portugal, in hopes of better understanding wind behavior across the globe.

Colorado Shakespeare Festival performs Julius Caesar during school tour

Colorado Shakespeare Festival receives grant for outreach program

June 1, 2017

The university's Colorado Shakespeare Festival has been awarded $25,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to perform the works of William Shakespeare for middle- and high-school students.

dragon spacecraft

SpaceX launches CU-built heart, bone health experiments to space station

May 31, 2017

A SpaceX rocket launched two ²ÊÃñ±¦µä-built payloads to the International Space Station (ISS) from Florida, delivering equipment to look at changes in cardiovascular stem cells in microgravity and study a new bone-building drug.

Sharon Matusik

Matusik named Leeds School of Business dean

May 30, 2017

²ÊÃñ±¦µä Provost Russell L. Moore today announced the appointment of Sharon F. Matusik as the dean of the Leeds School of Business. Matusik has been serving as the interim dean since January 2017. She assumes the permanent role Thursday.

launching high-altitude balloons

High-altitude balloon experiments could enable hypersonic flight

May 24, 2017

A group of universities led by the ²ÊÃñ±¦µä Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences has received a five year, $7.5 million Department of Defense grant to investigate the extreme altitudes where hypersonic planes would fly.

an airplane on the runway at boulder municipal airport

Taking flight with ultracold atoms

May 19, 2017

²ÊÃñ±¦µä and JILA physicists take laser-cooled atoms airborne as part of an effort to improve aerospace sensing and navigation.

A shadow image of a prisoner

Domestic terrorists, gang members have little in common, study shows

May 18, 2017

Domestic extremists in the U.S. are older, better educated, more affluent, more religious and more likely to be white than street gang members are, according to the first comprehensive study to compare the two groups.

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