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From July 2023 to June 2024, ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder helped to launch 35 new companies based on research at the university. The new businesses are embracing technologies from the worlds of healthcare, agriculture, clean energy and more. Here’s a look at how engineers and scientists, with the help of the university’s commercialization arm Venture Partners, seek to use discoveries from the lab to make a difference in peoples’ lives.

Lucy Pao was honored by the IEEE Control Systems Society for advancing research in wind turbine control systems. Her IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Outstanding Paper Award recognized the work with her former PhD student Michael N. Sinner, now a researcher at NREL and collaborators from ForWind – Center for Wind Energy Research in Germany.

ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder’s Living Materials Laboratory contributed to groundbreaking research showing how engineered microbes can create bioglass microlenses, paving the way for advanced imaging technologies in medicine and materials science.

Kristina M. Johnson served as a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder from 1985 to 1999.

Kristi Anseth, a Distinguished Professor and Tisone Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, has been awarded the prestigious VinFuture Special Prize for Women Innovators in recognition of her pioneering research in tissue engineering.

Undergraduate engineering students have many opportunities to engage in real-world research under the guidance of faculty and graduate student mentors at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder.

In a new paper, drawing on accounts from nearly three dozen previously incarcerated people, ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder researchers reveal a disturbing story of how prisons and jails in ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ have failed to provide humane protections from growing environmental hazards brought on by climate change.

Anthony Straub is making major advances in water purification technology for industry and human consumption on Earth and in space, with his work on a nanotechnology membrane process taking a major step toward commercialization...

Drone technology and atmospheric science instruments developed by the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder will be available to researchers nationwide through a new grant.The National Science Foundation has awarded ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder a three-year, $1 million

ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder’s Abbie Liel and Notre Dame’s Susan Ostermann are leading a collaborative NSF-funded study on resilient housing in disaster-prone areas lincluding Maui, Alaska and Puerto Rico. Their research combines Liel’s expertise in structural engineering with Ostermann’s background in political science and law, aiming to find solutions for safer, more resilient housing.