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CTD Capstone is a rigorous, two-semester course sequence required for all Creative Technology & Design majors. Normally taken during the senior year, it involves the completion of a culminating project that goes through multiple rounds of faculty review and iteration. This small collection of project presentations gives a sense of the kind of work students complete in the CTD program.
Longtime university staff member Susan Ramirez-Armstrong (¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder–Bio‘84) retires at the end of December, wrapping up a 34-year career at ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder.
ATLAS PhD alumna Abigale Stangl explores how artificial intelligence can be used to generate image descriptions when alt text—the image descriptions intended to give people who are blind or have low vision a verbal description of online image content—is missing.
ATLAS recently released a new video that celebrates the ACME Lab and its commitment to designing technologies to support creativity. Directed by Professor Ellen Do, the lab researches computational tools for design, creativity, cognition, tangible and embedded interaction, and computing for health and wellness.
Kari Santos holds an MS in Information and Communication Technology for Development (the track was later renamed Social Impact) from ATLAS Institute's Creative Technology and Design master's program. Before getting
Unstable Design Lab researchers Jordan Wirfs-Brock, a PhD candidate, and Mikhaila Friske, a PhD student, both in information science, will present their interactive, hands-on, textile-based experience, Murmuring Yarnscapes, in the ATLAS Black Box, beginning Dec. 2.
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."
Shaz Zamore is the faculty director of ATLAS Community Outreach and Resource Network (ACORN), a new outreach group  that connects ATLAS research and STEM education to those who can’t easily access it.
Julia Uhr, an ATLAS PhD student and researcher in the ACME Lab, has created a fun 3D visual programming language that empowers novice coders to create customized VR environments while inside those environments.
T9Hacks partnered with STEMblazers to host Au{t9}umn Hacks, a hackathon designed to promote interest in creative technologies, coding, design and making in high school students who identify from groups underrepresented at mainstream hackathons.