Ƶ Innovators News
Ƶ Boulder College of Engineering and Applied Science—A team of engineers and material scientists in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering at Ƶ Boulder has developed a new technology to turn thermal radiation into electricity in a way that literally teases the basic law of thermal physics.
Ƶ Boulder College of Engineering and Applied Science—It’s been six years since the launch of startup company Aspero Medical, co-founded by Professor Mark Rentschler of the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering. The company has seen great success, including the development of a medical device designed to enable more efficient procedures in the small bowel region.
Ƶ Boulder College of Engineering and Applied Science—The University of Colorado Boulder’s College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS) has announced the recipients of its inaugural class of Innovation & Entrepreneurship (I&E) Fellows, a new program designed to support faculty, postdoctoral researchers and graduate students in advancing cutting-edge research with commercial potential. The fellowships are supported by the CEAS I&E initiative and Venture Partners at Ƶ Boulder.
Ƶ Boulder Graduate School—Since its inception, the Lab Venture Challenge has funded more than 117 projects through 64 new companies that provide technology solutions to scientific or engineering challenges, or deep-tech start-ups. In turn, these companies have raised over $349 million to date in follow-on financing.
Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN)—A structural engineer, Wil Srubar (Ƶ Boulder Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering) recruits biologists, chemists, physicists, materials scientists, and a host of engineers to his lab, where they design biomimetic building materials.
FY 2023-24 was another tremendous year for innovation and entrepreneurship at the Ƶ. University researchers, inventors and creators began working with Venture Partners at Ƶ Boulder to advance 144 breakthrough innovations, and 36 Ƶ startups were launched through Venture Partners based on campus discoveries.
New Ƶ Boulder research suggests a surprising tool that could help with weight loss: Exposure to beneficial bacteria. With assistance from Venture Partners, a new startup Kioga will pursue new microbe-based ingredients for preventing weight gain and promoting health.
Daily Camera—President Joe Biden awarded former Ƶ Boulder professor Kristina Johnson with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation on Friday. Johnson’s research has led to 46 U.S. patents. Her optics inventions have enabled HDTV and modern 3D movies, which have been used in 25,000 theaters around the world and viewed by hundreds of millions of people.
ColoradoBiz—Agrawal, 29, moved from India to Colorado to study quantum computation at Ƶ in 2019. “Boulder, in general, has the most thriving quantum ecosystem in the world,” she says. The overwhelming focus on quantum computing, however, paved the way for Agrawal to co-found Ƶ Boulder Startup Mesa Quantum with Wale Lawal in early 2024.
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute—Model Predictive Control (MPC) is an established control technique that is popular in the general control systems community. The MPC approach could have significant impacts on how wind turbines are controlled, not only improving their efficiency, but also reducing structural stress on the turbines and extending their lifetimes.