Pushing Boundaries
The assignment: write and test the code for a microcontroller, design and built an insulated casing to hold a camera and protect electronics and batteries from temperatures of approximately -35° Fahrenheit. Students, many of whom began the ATLAS course without much of a technical background, succeeded.
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the uncertainty of international travel, Mortenson Center graduate student Britta Bergstrom pivoted her field-based practicum in Tanzania to a community-engaged garden in her home state.
Shelley Knuth, assistant vice chancellor of research computing, brought her research experience working in Antarctica to ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder.
Women’s history snapshot: From 1893 to 1908, the university's Seal featured an image of a Greek female and the ‘Let Your Light Shine’ motto.
Women’s history snapshot: Anna Louise Wolcott Vaile argued that social ills harming women could only be rectified with political power, which relied on women’s suffrage.
Women’s history snapshot: Patricia Rankin initially assumed when told she didn’t "look like a physicist," they were complimenting her on being well dressed.
History overlooked Lucile Berkeley Buchanan, the first African American woman to graduate from the University of Colorado. A dogged ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä journalist, Polly McLean, brought her back to the fore.
Mary Rippon was a bona fide pioneer who became a ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä icon, but ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä almost did not become her home. When ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä’s first president, Joseph Sewall, invited Rippon to teach at ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä, which had just opened its doors in September 1877, Rippon initially declined.
A team of four undergraduate students in the College of Media, Communication and Information is competing in an advanced public relations capstone project to help raise awareness among young adults about lymphoma, a type of blood cancer.
Jenny Horing, an aerospace doctoral student and Smead Scholar, has been poring over the latest results in her hypersonic flow and material response research, searching for clues in the data to better understand the next frontier in high-speed thermodynamics.