Students in Focus
- When Nora Barpal saw the many music career possibilities available to her at CU, confused about how to proceed, she turned to the Entrepreneurship Center for Music to help her chart a new path.
- Humans have already been to the moon, but two engineering undergraduates have their eyes set on helping humans explore the entire solar system with the aid of robotic partners.
- People with vision impairments face a perpetual problem: maneuvering through a world of obstacles and hazards. Meet Good Vibrations, a team of students with a solution.
- Funded by a National Science Foundation fellowship in human-computer interaction, PhD student Layne Jackson Hubbard has designed playful prototypes to support young children in expressing their ideas.
- Prompted by an eighth grade robotics project, engineering undergraduate student Peter "Max" Armstrong has been working ever since to create an affordable socket for prosthetic limbs.
- While watching the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse in Jackson, Wyoming, graduate student Viliam Klein filmed the event using a 360-degree camera packed on a high-altitude balloon.
- Senior Cat Archer took her time choosing activities to get involved in, which kept her from feeling overwhelmed during her freshman year.
- ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· doctoral candidate Aaron Johnson says bicyclists don't break the law at greater frequency than motorists, but when they do, motorists seem to selectively notice.
- Having been an athlete for 10 years and a musician for almost as long, sophomore Chance Lytle has learned to balance his two passions, finding serenity in the constant back and forth.
- When senior engineering student Susie Gomez-Burgos isn't studying, she spends much of her time inspiring children, Latina girls in particular, to become mathematicians and science whizzes.