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Karunanithi receives CU Denver Excellence in Research and Creative Activities award
Arunprakash Karunanithi, associate professor in civil engineering, is the CU Denver campus winner of the Faculty Excellence in Research and… READ MORE
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Rorrer receives CU Denver Outstanding Faculty Mentoring Award
Ron Rorrer, associate professor in mechanical engineering, has been selected as the campus recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Mentoring Award.… READ MORE
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CU Denver bioengineering student to participate in American Physiological Society (APS) Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship (UGSRF)
Rachelle Walter, an undergraduate in the Department of Bioengineering at CU Denver, will be participating in the American Physiological Society (APS) Undergraduate Summer Research… READ MORE
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Engineering colleagues awarded NIH grant to develop spinal cages
Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professors Christopher Yakacki and Dana Carpenter have received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Award (R21) to develop spinal cages. Yakacki and Carpenter have partnered to establish the Smart Materials and Biomechanics Lab to discover new biomedical materials and to investigate uses for biomedical devices. This new funding of more than $348,000 is supported by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. It is for their project “Porous, Patient Specific Interbody Fusion Cages with Enhanced Loading Characteristics to Reduce Subsidence” The research interests of these colleagues complement one another: Yakacki… READ MORE
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ASCE Steel Bridge Team wins at regional conference
On April 3 – 5, the CU Denver ASCE Steel Bridge Team competed in the at Colorado State University. Please… READ MORE
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