Research & Innovation News
PufferBot, the hovering quadcopter drone created by graduate student Hooman Hedayati and his colleagues at the ATLAS Institute, comes complete with a plastic shield that can expand in size at a moment’s notice—forming a robotic airbag that could prevent dangerous collisions between people and machines.
Scientists believe we are living in the Second Quantum Revolution, a period of rapid advances in technology based on discoveries in quantum science. Companies from IBM and Google to small startups are eager to create and perfect these new technologies—and that requires training a new kind of workforce.
ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ research attracted $613.9 million in funding in fiscal year 2020 for groundbreaking studies that, among other things, crack the code of the teenage brain, advance electric transportation and aim to understand how odors guide behavior.
The College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS) launched three new interdisciplinary research themes this summer as part of a broad push into critical areas of study. Join the virtual open house on Wednesday, November 4 to meet the IRT directors, hear their plans and learn how you can participate.
ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ's third annual Research & Innovation Week—celebrating research, scholarship and creative work across campus—took place from October 12–16. Recordings of the three main events (featuring the MOSAiC mission, the RIO Faculty Fellows and the university's ATLAS Institute) are now available.
Thirty years after beginning her training as a postdoctoral scholar in the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ lab of Nobel laureate Thomas Cech, biochemist Jennifer Doudna on Wednesday won her own Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the co-development of the revolutionary genome editing tool CRISPR-Cas9.
Requiring 1,500 feet between oil and gas operations and buildings or waterways would have minimal impacts on oil and gas availability according to a new study from ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ and Colorado School of Mines, published in an upcoming edition of Energy Policy.
The DOE has awarded $115M over five years to the Quantum Systems Accelerator, a new research center that will include ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ. Led by Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, the center will forge the technological solutions needed to harness quantum information science for discoveries that benefit the world.
The vast majority of SARS-CoV-2 transmission occurs indoors, most of it from the inhalation of airborne particles that contain the coronavirus. Ventilation and filtration techniques may hold the key to slowing the spread indoors. Mechanical engineering professor Shelly Miller shares on The Conversation.
ASPIRE—Advancing Sustainability through Powered Infrastructure for Roadway Electrification—will explore a diverse range of transportation questions, from electrified highways that energize vehicles to the placement of charging stations, data security and workforce development.