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- New research suggests that eyes may really be the window to the soul—or, at least, how humans dart their eyes may reveal valuable information about how they make decisions.
- Spun out of co-founder Greg Rieker’s laboratory in 2017, LongPath Technologies, a startup that has been developing laser-based equipment for methane gas sensing, has closed an investment round worth $22 million.
- Debbie Yeh, area director of undergraduate advising for the mechanical engineering and electrical, computer and energy engineering departments, has been awarded the 2022 chancellor’s Employee of the Year Award.
- Ryan Schmad (BSME '23) is the recipient of the 2022 Best Undergradute Podium Award from the Rocky Mountain American Society of Biomechanics. His research mentor is Rachel Marbaker, a current PhD student in Alaa Ahmed's Neuromechanics Laboratory.
- The project aims to shift some of the most time-consuming tasks done in laboratory work to robots by developing new, open-source robot software and innovative hardware designs.
- During the Covid-19 pandemic, researchers took advantage of the disappearance of LA's traffic by investigating how different human activities, especially driving, affected air quality. Professor Daven Henze focused on a compound that’s frequently ignored in cities: ammonia.
- The College of Engineering and Applied Science, the College of Arts and Sciences and the Leeds School of Business are teaming up to highlight CU Boulder-led research to address climate change from 3-5 p.m. on Nov. 30 in the Olson Atrium of the Rustandy Building. The event comes ahead of the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit on campus and acts as a kickoff to several days of panels, workshops and activities.
- Group of researchers release study that examines how fruit flies can quickly compensate for catastrophic wing injuries, maintaining the same stability after losing up to 40% of a wing. This finding could inform the design of versatile robots.
- Skyler Kern, a PhD student in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering, spent a lot of his childhood fishing on the rivers and inlets around Anchorage, Alaska. In fact, Kern’s first word as a child was “boat.” “My family and I were in