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The Lewis Family Awards exist to honor the memory of brother and sister, Drew and Nancy, by encouraging others to be “who they are, enjoy everything they do, and make … Continue Reading Spring 2021 Lewis Family Award Winners
On May 11, Dr. Ebony Omotola McGee, associate professor of diversity and STEM education, Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College, presented her talk “BLACK, BROWN, BRUISED: How Racialized STEM Education Stifles Innovation.” … Continue Reading College hosts Dr. Ebony McGee for a talk on Racialized STEM Education
More than 170 students and 33 teams participated in the Spring 2021 Virtual Capstone Expo. Projects civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering and computer science and engineering tackled real-world problems and … Continue Reading Spring 2021 Capstone Expo Winners and Recap
Congratulations to Allison Gus, graduate admissions and recruitment coordinator, on receiving the 2021 College of Engineering, Design and Computing Outstanding Staff award. Allison joined the college in 2018 and has … Continue Reading Gus named 2021 Outstanding Staff
Bhanu Babaiahgari, a PhD candidate in electrical engineering, has been offered and accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position at Penn State Hazelton with their Department of Electrical Engineering. Babaiahgari will … Continue Reading Babaiahgari named assistant professor at Penn State Hazelton
Kai Yu, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at CU Denver, has received the Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the foundation’s most prestigious … Continue Reading Yu receives NSF CAREER award to support research in active polymers
The inaugural Design Horizons Entrepreneurial Fellows Program is an immersive nine-month, co-curricular learning journey for CU Denver students passionate about entrepreneurship, innovation, design, and all forms of creativity. Created in … Continue Reading Design Horizons: CU Denver students drive innovation and entrepreneurship
Chelsea Magin, assistant professor of bioengineering, was named a 2021 “40 Gators Under 40” from her alma mater University of Florida. The winners were announced via social media, and Magin … Continue Reading Magin named a 40 Gators Under 40 awardee
Vijay Harid, assistant professor of electrical engineering, and a team of researchers, received a National Science Foundation award for his project “Establishing an Iron Resonance Wind-Temperature Lidar at High-Frequency Active … Continue Reading Harid receives collaborative NSF award
Daewon Park, associate professor of bioengineering, has been named a 2021 MSA Mentor of the Year, an annual award bestowed by the CU School of Medicine’s Mentored Scholarly Activity (MSA) … Continue Reading Park named MSA Mentor of the Year
Six College of Engineering, Design and Computing staff have received the third quarter Cause for Applause award. This quarter’s recipients are: Shaun Boulier, Department of Bioengineering Jac Corless, Department of … Continue Reading Third quarter Cause for Applause recipients named
Jennifer Briggs is a first-year bioengineering PhD candidate working under the mentorship of David Albers, associate professor of pediatrics, and Richard Benninger, associate professor of bioengineering. Jennifer’s project emphasizes applying … Continue Reading Briggs receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Creating change and opportunity one pair of adaptive scissors at a time The Preschool Development Grant: Inclusion & Universal Design Project, is a partnership between the Center for Inclusive Design … Continue Reading The Inclusion & Universal Design Project
LynxVision, a team of electrical engineering students’ capstone design project has been named a finalist in the 2021 Open CV AI Competition. This year, the international competition focused on solutions … Continue Reading LynxVision selected as finalist in OpenCV AI competition
Civil engineering lecturer Peter Marxhausen was named a 2021 Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) Fellow by the American Society of Civil Engineers. The SEI Fellow designation recognizes accomplished SEI members as … Continue Reading Marxhausen named 2021 SEI Fellow
