Universities Reach Out

Colorado universities, intent on seeing their tech breakthroughs live on in the real world, are reaching out to businesses in new ways to help the state create jobs and ensure a more resilient economy.

The state's major

New Funding Program?

If the Advanced Industries Acceleration Act, HB 13-1001, being considered in the Colorado Legislature this year, is approved by Colorado lawmakers, it will create a program that provides cash grants for startup companies in industries

MAVEN's Debut In Sight

Until the rovers Spirit and Opportunity first landed on Mars nearly a decade ago, Earth's neighboring planet seemed mysterious and elusive. Today, discoveries on Mars continue to elicit wonder and awe, but many mysteries are being

Young space commanders

Many students dream of becoming astronauts, operating spacecraft, conducting research, discovering new frontiers. But students at the University of Colorado Boulder have a chance to live that dream while they're still in school. As part

CU-Boulder's Nobel Laureate List Grows

Boulder's newest Nobel laureate, largely responsible for propelling the field of quantum physics forward to more unimaginable advancements, is more than brilliant — he is also an unassuming nice guy. Almost anyone who knows David

Energy research “collaboratory” expands

The Colorado Renewable Energy Collaboratory, a groundbreaking partnership between Colorado’s research universities and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, has changed its name to Colorado Energy Research Collaboratory (CERC)

Studying Atmosphere’s Secrets

From leading the investigation of global warming to determining the facts of fracking’s impact on the environment, Colorado universities and federal labs rank among the world’s top atmospheric researchers.

The

Social research takes on societal ills

Across Colorado’s academic research world, social scientists are helping to understand and find solutions to some of the most troubling issues of our times, among them violence in schools and substance abuse.

Researchers

Learning from Masters

Prior work with stroke victims led University of Colorado medical student Marissa Hudak to seek a spot on a multidisciplinary team at the University of Colorado Hospital, looking at how to reduce stroke treatment time.

Hudak

Treatment for Chronic Pain — In Pets and People

Fortunately, what happens in Las Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas, especially for animals and people with chronic pain.

Linda Watkins, a neuroscience and psychology professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, was

Keep our research economy strong

It often gets overlooked: Colorado’s research economy seemingly sits behind the scenes, with professors and researchers in laboratories at one of the state’s research universities or federal laboratories.

But,

Outside the lab

Five years after being diagnosed with Stage III lung cancer, Ellen Smith, 63, of Centennial, is newly married and traveling the world again.

Durango third-grader Annelise Heinicke, who has cystic fibrosis, is looking forward

Powerful Partners

Federally funded research laboratories in Colorado — with alphabet-soup acronyms such as JILA, NOAA, NEON, NIST — partnering with the state's research universities and local companies, constitute the backbone of the state's

Down to the Nth

Of Biologists, Physicists and Computers

With the goal of creating what its Nobel Prize-winning director Tom Cech calls “productive collisions,” the new BioFrontiers Institute on the CU-Boulder campus hopes to model what can happen when walls — both physical

Sensitizing Prosthetics

Look at the typical prosthetic arm and it looks remarkably similar to one from the end of World War II. It straps across the back and uses a cable system to allow the user to control a metal hook by shrugging his or her other

Close to the Flame

New research on Colorado forests challenges many of the old assumptions about the risks, severity and causes of the devastating wildfires of the past decade.

Work being done by scientists at Colorado State University and the

Bioscience Wonders

Inside a 25,000-square-foot laboratory on the Colorado State University campus, an army of tuberculosis researchers clad in respirators and white biosafety suits wages war on what some are calling the return of the “White Plague.

10 Life-Changing Ideas

Changing landscapes

Wildfires and pine beetle outbreaks are changing the landscape of Colorado forests, and the shift will likely result in fewer lodgepole pines and more aspen trees and subalpine fir.

But whether the shift will bring in more