Last month, the first Human Performance Summit drew nearly 250 participants from the military, athletic, investment, scientific, academic and entrepreneurial communities to ֱ Boulder’s Champions Center.
The Lab Venture Challenge (LVC), hosted annually by Venture Partners at ֱ Boulder awards grants to campus researchers whose technologies demonstrate high commercial potential.
By using light-activated quantum dots to fire particular enzymes within microbial cells, ֱ Boulder researchers were able to create “living factories” that eat harmful CO2 and convert it into useful products such as biodegradable plastic, gasoline, ammonia and biodiesel.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO)—the parent organization of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)—has just released a catalogue of benchmark data sets, including four from ֱ Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), to promote as trusted sources, simplify user access and support global policy makers.
In the not-so-distant future, researchers may be able to build atoms to your specifications with the click of a button. It’s still the stuff of science fiction, but a team at ֱ Boulder reports that it is getting closer when it comes to controlling and assembling particles called “big atoms."
Dr. Thomas H. Zurbuchen will discuss the process of writing successful NASA mission proposals and provide a brief update on how the mission review process may evolve in the near future. Researchers thinking about being a PI or joining a proposal team are invited to attend on Wednesday, June 5 at 2 p.m. in the Old Main Chapel at the ֱ Boulder Heritage Center.
Corporate travel has a been a market in need of some desperate transformation. Pana, a ֱ Boulder spinoff company, hopes to facilitate this change with a $10 million Series A round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Bessemer Venture Partners.
The University of ֱ Boulder has joined the IBM Q Network with the intent to seek collaborations with IBM Q scientists and engineers through the ֱbit Quantum Initiative.
In May, the Research & Innovation Office welcomed James Olson as the Executive Director of National Security Research, a role designed to engage researchers across campus with federal and industry sponsors in this sector. National security is widely understood to refer to a variety of dimensions nations must address to...
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