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How this celebrity tattoo artist created a tattoo you can turn on and off at will

Oct. 3, 2022

Bang Bang—who has inked the likes of Rihanna and LeBron—teamed up with research scientists Carson Bruns and Jesse Butterfield to develop a new kind of light-sensitive ink.

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Ellen Yi-Luen Do and Carson Bruns win graduate school awards for outstanding mentorship

May 4, 2022

Praised by their graduate students for their scientific competence, work ethic, creativity and compassion, two ATLAS professors received Outstanding Faculty Mentor awards from ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder’s Graduate School on May 3, an honor bestowed this year on only 18 faculty members campus-wide.

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High-tech tattoos may help prevent skin cancer

Nov. 15, 2021

Carson Bruns, assistant professor and director of the Emergent Nanomaterials Lab, and his research team are collaborating with the ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Anschutz Medical Campus to test a tattoo ink that’s completely invisible—and could lower the risk of skin cancer, much like a “permanent sunscreen."

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ATLAS research spins off to Catalyze ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ

June 21, 2021

Two teams from the ATLAS Institute were selected to participate in Catalyze ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ, a highly selective, summer-long startup accelerator that combines world-class mentorship, funding and dedicated co-working space.