Faculty at Work: Molly Maxfield
Molly Maxfield examines the differences in young and older adults’ mechanisms for coping with increased awareness of mortality. (More)
Science & Technology
UCCS game jammers create 12 new games in 48-hour period
Sixty-six game designers created 12 new games in a 48-hour span as UCCS hosted one of 860 sites across the world during the 2019 Global Game Jam Jan. 27-29. (More)
Kratos donates channel simulator to UCCS Engineering Lab
Electrical engineering students will now be able to study and analyze communication signals between platforms such as ground stations, satellites, airplanes, UAVs/drones, or missiles thanks to an in-kind gift of a channel simulator from Kratos and its local subsidiary, Kratos RT Logic. (More)
Trujillo, Dhamija win top awards at 10th Mountain Lion Research Day
Marissa Trujillo, a senior biochemistry major, and Akshay Dhamija, a doctoral student studying computer science, won the top scholar awards at the 10th Annual Mountain Lion Research Day. (More)
MacInnis second at AAG regional meeting for winter storm research
Jana MacInnis, a senior geography and environmental studies student, earned second place in the undergraduate poster competition at the American Association of Geographers’ Great Plains/Rocky Mountain Regional Division Fall Meeting. (More)
UCCS researcher to investigate tick-borne Lyme disease
Meghan Lybecker, assistant professor in the Biology Department, will work with two University of Montana researchers to study the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. (More)
BI degrees receive, engineering degrees renew, ABET accreditation
The Bachelor of Innovation degrees in computer science and electrical engineering received its first accreditation and three other engineering programs were re-accredited in the latest review from the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. (More)
NASA engineer headlines first NatGeo Live! event Oct. 26
Few events in the last decade of space exploration have captured the world’s imagination like NASA’s ongoing Mars Exploration Program. (More)
Faculty at work: John Adams
What do you do when you can’t really replicate the vibrations of the wing of an airplane in a classroom context? You build an apparatus that will simulate this motion so that it can be observed and analyzed in the classroom. (More)
Cool Science Carnival Day to bring 6,000 on campus Oct. 13
More than 6,000 students and families will take part in more than 60 interactive exhibits at UCCS for the annual Colorado Springs Cool Science Festival Carnival Day Oct. 13. (More)