°Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï

Big Blue Technologies' Boris Chubukov and Orva Energy's Evan Flitz, both with roots at CU °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï, are among the seven founders selected for NLR's 2026 West Gate fellowship, working to bring affordable domestic magnesium and next-generation battery materials to market.

NSF has awarded $1.2 million to a CU °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï research team developing Regenerative Concrete Repair (RCR), a bacterial nanocellulose composite that repairs both active and dormant cracks in concrete infrastructure.

Venture Partners has announced the inaugural cohort of Creative Futures Fellows, supporting arts, humanities and social science projects that address challenges facing communities in Colorado and beyond.

The Biotech Voyager—Jack Guglel, co-founder and CEO of Arkana Therapeutics and CU °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï PhD alum of molecular, cellular and developmental biology, is developing appetite-suppressing molecules discovered through python biology that could offer an alternative to GLP-1 drugs with fewer gastrointestinal side effects.

CU °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï College of Engineering and Applied Science—Chunmei Ban, a professor in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering at CU °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï, has received a Fulbright Global Scholar award to explore the future of energy storage through next-generation battery technologies.

Aviation Week—David Dezell Turner, CU °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï PhD candidate in astrodynamics and satellite navigation, shares how winning the 2024 20 Twenties award became the catalyst for founding HoloAstro—a revolutionary augmented reality tool that's transforming space mission design.

CU °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï College of Engineering and Applied Science—CU °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï's BioServe Space Technologies is being recognized for decades of contributions to the International Space Station with a NASA Space Flight Awareness Supplier Award. Housed within the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, the center has been designing, building and flying microgravity life science research experiments and hardware since 1987, with six payloads launching less than two months ago.

Larisza Krista, research scientist at CIRES at CU °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï, was awarded a $600,000 National Science Foundation Translation to Practice—Explore (NSF TTP-E) grant to translate fundamental research on coronal mass ejections (CMEs).

The Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT) has announced that eight CU °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï researchers and four startups received funding through the latest round of the Advanced Industries Accelerator Program. The awards, granted through the Proof of Concept and Early-Stage Capital and Retention programs, represent one of the university's strongest performances to date.

CU °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï has emerged as a leading hub for battery innovation, producing breakthrough research and a series of successful startups—including Solid Power, SiILion, Otoro Energy, Forge Nano and Mana Battery—that are advancing safer, cheaper and more effective energy storage technologies. The university’s unique combination of world-class researchers, entrepreneurial support and industry partnerships has helped transform laboratory discoveries into companies with significant economic and societal impact.