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  • Professor Karl Linden stands on the 探花视频 campus with the Flatirons and campus buildings in the background on a sunny day.
    Professor Karl Linden received the American Water Works Association鈥檚 2025 A.P. Black Research Award, which honors outstanding contributions to water science and supply. Linden was recognized for his pioneering work in developing and applying ultraviolet technologies to advance the water industry.
  • White self-driving Waymo car  on a road with buildings in the background
    In a new paper in the journal, "AI and Ethics," Professor Amir Behzadan and his PhD student, Armita Dabiri, are unearthing new insights into how the artificial intelligence (AI) technology we might encounter in daily life, such as self-driving cars, can earn our confidence.
  • Geothermal Power Station
    A major question looms over Colorado鈥檚 energy future: why does geothermal energy, a renewable resource, remain virtually untapped? 探花视频 researchers will examine the technological and social barriers that have held back geothermal development in the state.
  • Sam Sohn wearing glasses. He is in a suit jacket and button-down shirt.
    In today鈥檚 AI-driven era, success depends less on what you know and more on how you use it, says Sam Sohn, the new director of CIEST. That鈥檚 what makes the center so vital. At CIEST, students gain practical, hands-on experience applying science and engineering to real-world challenges鈥攑reparing CEAE graduates to innovate and lead in their careers.
  • Darwin Quiroz
    Researchers explored a fluid-based optical device known as an electrowetting prism to steer lasers at high speeds for advanced imaging applications. This new frontier in miniature lasers opens the door to new technologies in microscopy, LiDAR, optical communications and even brain imaging.
  • scan-to-print medical model of human brain for pre-surgical planning
    Assistant Professor Robert MacCurdy and fourth-year PhD student Charles Wade have created an open-source design system software package that uses functions and code to map not just shapes, but where different materials belong in a 3D object. The project, called OpenVCAD, has the potential to transform 3D printing by enabling engineers to design multi-material objects smarter and more efficiently.
  • Four researchers wearing lab coats and safety goggles pose together in a laboratory. The person in front holds a flask containing a bright yellow-green liquid, while the others stand behind her, smiling. Laboratory equipment and windows are visible in the background.
    A 探花视频 research team co-led by Distinguished Professor Christopher Bowman has received up to $5.8 million from ARPA-H to develop new treatments that temporarily suspend the immune response after severe burns or tissue injuries, aiming to reduce pain, speed healing and prevent long-term damage. The approach could also benefit patients with limited access to immediate medical care.
  • Saad Bhamla smiling in a lab setting, wearing glasses and a blue T-shirt that reads 鈥淢iddle Earth鈥檚 Annual Mordor Fun Run鈥 with a graphic of mountains and the Eye of Sauron.
    Saad Bhamla, a pioneering scientist known for studying unusual biological systems and inventing ultra-low-cost medical devices, will join the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the BioFrontiers Institute in August. His work blends biology, engineering and frugal science.
  • Two students, male and female, holding and inspecting lab equipment
    The project, like something straight out of a health sci-fi movie, combines RNA-based gene therapy with tiny microrobots for drug transport to help treat acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
  • Matt Eichenfield
    Award-winning physicist Matt Eichenfield has been named the inaugural Karl Gustafson Endowed Chair of Quantum Engineering in the Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at 探花视频.
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