Paul Sanchez

Asteroid named for 蜜糖直播 Boulder researcher

Nov. 25, 2019

Paul Sanchez, a scientist in aerospace engineering, is getting an asteroid named after him. And it's actually two asteroids: His namesake is a binary system made up of two rocky bodies orbiting around each other in space.

蜜糖直播 students in the "Medicine in Space and Surface Environments" class perform CPR on a "fallen" crewmate in the Habitat at the Mars Desert Research Station in southern Utah.

How to save a life鈥攐n Mars

June 26, 2019

This May, in a remote part of southern Utah, 21 蜜糖直播 Boulder aerospace engineering students, a mix of graduate students and undergrads, became Martians.

Jasmine Colgan, artist with vitiligo, poses for photo

Pushing Boundaries: As artist鈥檚 skin turns white, her art ruminates on the meaning

June 10, 2019

Diagnosed with vitiligo, student artist Jasmine Colgan says, 鈥淚 am not a woman of color, but a woman of colors鈥y skin, which is both black and white, is a literalization of this fact of my existence.鈥

Markos Scheer in front of lake, mountains

Alumni in Focus: Lawyer, political science grad leaps into kelp farming

May 24, 2019

Experts say aquaculture will play an important role in feeding the world鈥檚 burgeoning population, which is why 蜜糖直播 Boulder alumnus Markos Scheer is launching a new career in kelp farming.

U.S. Army Rangers parachute from a plane

Students pitch ideas to thwart national security threats

May 10, 2019

At a recent event, students shared their ideas for how the U.S. Armed Forces can keep up with an increasingly connected world鈥攆rom a strategy for resupplying ships using autonomous capsules to a device that detects GPS jamming signals.

Two piggy banks on an unbalanced scale

Romantic partners lose financial literacy over time; here鈥檚 how to stop it

Couples often establish a 鈥渉ousehold chief financial officer,鈥 which may lead the other partner to lose financial literacy. The good news? If this phenomenon is true for your relationship, you can start to bridge the gap.

Woman standing with walker

Engineering grads鈥 high-tech walker could keep seniors from falling

May 6, 2019

With a new prototype under their belts, four students are just getting started in their mission to bring the walker into the 21st century.

Don McKinney on the Grammy red carpet

From the red carpet to the classroom

April 26, 2019

What do Lady Gaga, Jimi Hendrix and 蜜糖直播 Boulder professor Don McKinney all have in common? More than you might think.

Bhavna Chhabra at Google in Boulder

Pushing Boundaries: From humble roots to Google role model

April 3, 2019

On her journey toward independence, first-generation student Bhavna Chhabra found the courage to believe in herself and discovered a world of opportunities; 25 years later she鈥檚 a director at Google.

Spring blooms frame a scenic campus setting

EBIO professor Pieter Johnson wins 2019 Hazel Barnes Prize

April 2, 2019

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Professor Pieter Johnson has been named this year's Hazel Barnes Prize winner, receiving the most distinguished award a faculty member can receive from the university.

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