Faculty-Staff Edition - June 28, 2018
Celebrate
Google expands STEM education access, reach with $2 million-plus to Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder
Google has announced a $1.5 million Google.org grant in support of Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder's PhET Interactive Simulations, and rent-free space for the National Center for Women & Information Technology.
Leading toy maker Sphero acquires Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder-bred startup Specdrums
Specdrums is a student-founded company that was Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder’s 2018 New Venture Challenge champion. The technology involves app-controlled wearable rings that can turn color into sound.
Alex Zunger wins prestigious energy medal
Alex Zunger of CU's Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute joins the ranks of former President Jimmy Carter, receiving the prestigious Karl W. Böer Solar Energy Medal of Merit Award.
Campus Community
Get your CD: Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØSymphony Orchestra live with the Indigo Girls
The live album, which the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØSymphony Orchestra recorded with folk duo the Indigo Girls in April 2017 at Macky Auditorium, will be released on June 29.
Do you have a budding piano player?
The College of Music offers youth lessons. The opportunity to teach is beneficial for Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØpiano students, and young pianists in the area get to come to campus and learn from scholars.
A team of engineering students, with the help of Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder's crowdfunding platform, plans to put its design to the test in this year's International RoboSub Competition.
Research News
Latest BioServe space experiments will study cancer, renewable energy
Two experiment payloads designed and built at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder are scheduled to blast off for the International Space Station in the early hours of June 29.
Complex organics bubble from Enceladus' depths
An international team, including Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder researchers, discovered key building blocks for life in icy plumes ejected from Saturn's moon Enceladus.
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