President Barack Obama delivers remarks announcing two new public-private Manufacturing Innovation Institutes, and launches the first of four new Manufacturing Innovation Institute Competitions, in the East Room of the White House, Feb. 25, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

President Obama announces CU-Boulder will be a partner in digital manufacturing institute

Feb. 25, 2014

The University of Colorado Boulder and the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade will be part of the new Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute announced today by President Barack Obama.

Curtain rises on CU-Boulder鈥檚 third anti-violence school tour

Feb. 25, 2014

Following on the heels of its nationally recognized anti-violence school tours based on 鈥淭he Tempest鈥 and 鈥淭welfth Night,鈥 the Colorado Shakespeare Festival has hit the road with a new production of 鈥淢uch Ado About Nothing.鈥

Nanophononic metamaterial

Nanoscale pillars could radically improve conversion of heat to electricity, say CU-Boulder researchers

Feb. 20, 2014

University of Colorado Boulder scientists have found a creative way to radically improve thermoelectric materials, a finding that could one day lead to the development of improved solar panels, more energy-efficient cooling equipment, and even the creation of new devices that could turn the vast amounts of heat wasted at power plants into more electricity.

Sloan Research Fellowship latest award for CU-Boulder Professor Gordana Dukovic

Feb. 18, 2014

For University of Colorado Boulder Assistant Professor Gordana Dukovic of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, the awards just keep rolling in. Today the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced that Dukovic was one of 126 people in the U.S. and Canada selected for one of the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships in 2014.

CU-Boulder stem cell research may point to new methods of mitigating muscle loss

Feb. 16, 2014

New findings on why skeletal muscle stem cells stop dividing and renewing muscle mass during aging points up a unique therapeutic opportunity for managing muscle-wasting conditions in humans, says a new University of Colorado Boulder study.

CU-Boulder invites teachers, kids to be part of Ants in Space experiments on space station

Feb. 13, 2014

Ancient settlements and modern cities follow same rules of development, says CU-Boulder researcher

Feb. 12, 2014

Recently derived equations that describe development patterns in modern urban areas appear to work equally well to describe ancient cities settled thousands of years ago, according to a new study led by a researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Stephen Kissler

CU-Boulder student wins prestigious Gates scholarship for study at Cambridge University

Feb. 10, 2014

Applied mathematics student Stephen Kissler has received the highly competitive Gates Cambridge Scholarship for doctoral studies at Cambridge University, funded by Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

FCC and FTC chairs to speak at CU-Boulder conference on digital broadband Feb. 9-10

Feb. 6, 2014

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler and Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Edith Ramirez will speak at a University of Colorado Boulder conference dealing with Internet governance issues Feb. 9-10. The conference, 鈥淒igital Broadband Migration: After the Internet Protocol Revolution,鈥 will be hosted by the University of Colorado Law School鈥檚 Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship .

New Asian Studies minor launches

Feb. 6, 2014

This spring CU-Boulder鈥檚 Center for Asian Studies is launching a new Asian Studies minor , open to all students on campus, with the goal of helping students understand Asia as a region beyond one particular nation.

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