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The Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce has produced rankings that claim CU Denver does the best job at getting average students higher-than-average salaries. Read the story published on Vox.com.
Cathy Bodine, director of Assistive Technology Partners and associate professor of bioengineering, is highlighted on the CU Foundation website in recognition of her longstanding philanthropy. Read the story here.
On Nov. 18, campus leaders and the bioengineering department celebrated the collaborations behind the new Bioscience 2 building, home to the Department of Bioengineering, on the CU Anschutz Medical Campus. … Continue Reading Bioscience 2 called ‘spectacular facility’; featured in CU Today
Farnoush Banaei-Kashani, assistant professor of Computer Science and Engineering, has received a three-year GAANN (Graduate Assistant in Areas of National Need) award from U.S. Department of Education to establish an … Continue Reading Banaei-Kashani receives GAANN award
In January 2015, the University of Colorado Denver offered this challenge to engineering and photography students: Can you show us how water fits into Denver’s urban landscape? Now, we are … Continue Reading Winners announced for Green Denver photography competition
The Department of Civil Engineering and the Center for Sustainable Infrastructure System has received a NSF – IUSE grant (2 years; $ 249,967) titled “Sustainable Stem Learning Program (S2LP): Promoting … Continue Reading Karunanithi and team receives National Science Foundation Education Grant
Bioengineering: Rankings go up and so do job prospects–rapidly growing program takes advantage of affiliation with world-class CU Anschutz Medical Campus By Chris Casey, University Communications AURORA — On a recent … Continue Reading Bioengineering programs’ rapid growth featured in CU Today
SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nexenta, the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced a new Higher Education Program that encourages partnerships with universities to develop technical curricula to … Continue Reading Nexenta announces new higher ed program; partners with CSE department
Bryan Yunker, Ph.D., Research Instructor in the Department of Bioengineering, has received a two year research fellowship at the NIST Laboratories in Boulder, Colorado as sponsored by the National Research … Continue Reading Yunker receives a two year fellowship for research in Medical Imaging Phantoms at the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST)
A team of mechanical engineering students are designing and building a pod for a Hyperloop—a low-pressure tube designed to transport people from Los Angeles to San Francisco—for their senior design … Continue Reading HyperLynx senior design team featured on the Denver Channel
Congratulations to the following three faculty awarded tenure in June: Mark Golkowski, associate professor of electrical engineering Kendall Hunter, associate professor of bioengineering Wesley Marshall, associate professor of civil engineering … Continue Reading Three faculty awarded tenure
Michal Schafer, a graduate student in Dr. Hunter’s Lab, received 2015 American Heart Association Early Career Investigator Travel Award for upcoming Scientific Session in Orlando, FL. The award was given … Continue Reading Schafer receives 2015 American Heart Association Early Career Investigator Travel Award
Dr. Park’s study in Bioengineering, titled “Substantial differentiation of human neural stem cells into motor neurons on a biomimetic polyurea (DOI: 10.1002/mabi.201570032)”, was featured as a frontispiece in Macromolecular Bioscience. In … Continue Reading Park’s study featured as a frontispiece in Macromolecular Bioscience
Dana Carpenter, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and a team of researchers, led by Bob Schwartz and Wendy Kohrt in the CU School of Medicine’s Division of Geriatrics, recently received … Continue Reading Carpenter receives VA grant to establish a Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center
Maryam Darbeheshti, advisor and assistant professor of mechanical engineering, has accepted the position of director of the Engineering Student Services Center (ESSC). Maryam will be responsible for improving the quality … Continue Reading Darbeheshti named ESSC director
Angela VanDijk, who has served as the bioengineering undergraduate program coordinator and advisor since 2013, is the Department of Bioengineering’s new Director of Student Services. In this newly created role, … Continue Reading VanDijk named BIOE director of student services
Qualcomm is funding a University of Colorado Denver project, “Accelerating Visual Computing Algorithms for Enhanced 3D Sensing,” lead by Dan Connors, assistant professor of electrical engineering. The $30,000 grant from Qualcomm … Continue Reading Electrical engineering department receives funding from Qualcomm
Faculty members from the Construction Engineering and Management program are part of a local industry-academia collaborative team that has been awarded a nearly $3 million grant by the Colorado Department … Continue Reading CEM program receives $3M grant from CDOT
Richard Benninger, Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering, has been awarded two NIH Research Project (R01) grants from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). These … Continue Reading Benninger receives $3.5M in NIH research grants to study diabetes
The fourth annual College of Engineering and Applied Science Year-End Celebration took place on Friday, May 15, at Ninth Street Park on the Auraria Campus. Nearly 200 people from the … Continue Reading Year-End Celebration Slideshow and Recap
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