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photos courtesy of www.facebook.com/UCDOdyssey/ A team of mechanical engineering senior design students—Team Odyssey—took second place last Friday in Huntsville, Alabama at the NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge. The team also brought … Continue Reading Team Odyssey takes second place at NASA rover competition
Mallory Lennon, a second-year PhD candidate in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus, has been awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program … Continue Reading Lennon receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program predoctoral fellowship
CU Denver’s delegation was small at this weekend’s American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Rocky Mountain Student Conference in Rapid City, South Dakota, but they punched well above their weight. … Continue Reading ASCE TWO FOR TWO IN SOUTH DAKOTA
The CU Denver Women in Computer Science (WICS) student group has been busy teaching classes at Highlands Ranch Middle School this semester. The computer science juniors and seniors taught middle school … Continue Reading WICS teaches coding to Highlands Ranch Middle School students
On Wednesday, February 28, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) President Kristina Swallow visited CU Denver and presented a lecture, “Engineering the Future” to more than 100 engineering students, faculty, … Continue Reading ASCE President Kristina Swallow presents distinguished lecture
With several colleagues and students, civil engineering associate professor David Mays is pioneering a new approach to clean up contaminated groundwater. According to the National Ground Water Association, groundwater—the water … Continue Reading Mays links groundwater, biogeochemistry and chaos through supercomputing
Civil engineering associate professor David Mays has formed an affinity group within the National Science Foundation’s INCLUDES program, where INCLUDES stands for Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of … Continue Reading Mays Hosts Indigenous STEM Affinity Group
Civil engineering associate professor David Mays has been appointed co-editor for a special issue of Water, focused on groundwater contamination and remediation: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/water/special_issues/Groundwater_Contamination_Remediation Mays will be co-editing this special issue … Continue Reading Mays Edits Special Issue of Open-Access Journal Water
Chris Yakacki, associate professor of mechanical engineering, and his tech startup company Impressio, Inc. won the Advancements for Protective Equipment category at the NFL’s “1st and Future” competition last Saturday … Continue Reading Yakacki’s tech startup wins big at NFL 1st and Future competition
Jimmy Kim, professor of civil engineering has been inaugurated as president of the Bridge Engineering Institute (BEI), an international technical society. BEI is a non-profit, non-political and non-biased organization consisting … Continue Reading Kim inaugurated president of the Bridge Engineering Institute
How does one become the engineer of record on dozens of Denver’s infrastructure rehabilitation projects? For Civil Engineering Professor Kevin Rens, PhD, PE – and the many students he’s mentored in … Continue Reading Rens and team featured in CU Today
The fall senior design event was a smashing success with 29 teams, nearly 100 students and almost 20 judges participating. Below is the list of winners: Overall: BLOX3R Bioengineering: Lung Model Manufacturing … Continue Reading Fall 2017 Senior Design Recap and Slideshow
The National Science Foundation has produced a video on associate professor of bioengineering Jeffrey Jacot’s research and work being done at Children’s Hospital Colorado. The video, titled Bioengineering infant heart … Continue Reading Jacot lab, research featured in NSF video
On Friday 10/6/2017, civil engineering associate professor David Mays led a hydrology field trip for Ms. Sara Goodwin’s 2nd grade class at Park Hill Elementary School here in Denver. The … Continue Reading Mays Teaches Hydrology to 2nd Graders in Denver
Emily Gibson, assistant professor of bioengineering, and a team of researchers from the CU School of Medicine and CU Boulder received a $2 million grant allowing them to refine a … Continue Reading Gibson and team receive $2M NIH grant for brain study
“We were all in it together.” That’s how Jacob Altholz, a recent CU Denver graduate, remembers his experience in the undergraduate bioengineering program, which is part of the College of Engineering and Applied … Continue Reading CU Denver Today: First bioengineering undergraduates are prepared for the future
On Thursday, September 14, Bike Denver took the CVEN 5800 Urban Street Design class around Denver on a City Spin tour. They toured several bike lanes, including the new Broadway … Continue Reading Urban Street Design class tours the city with Bike Denver
To see the full Childrens Hospital Colorado story, please follow the URL: https://www.childrenscolorado.org/pediatric-innovation/research/fetal-care-research/neural-tube-defect-repair-research/
Three College of Engineering and Applied Science students have been awarded 2017 ARCS scholarships: Aaron Buchanan, bioengineering; Scott Spurgeon, mechanical engineering; and Rachelle Walter, bioengineering. These scholarships are awarded by … Continue Reading Three students receive prestigious ARCS scholarships
Farnoush Banaei-Kahani, assistant professor of computer science and engineering, and a team of researchers have received an NIH R21 award for their proposal “Omics Data Integration to Identify Disease Pathways … Continue Reading Banaei-Kashani and team receive NIH R21 award
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