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Madison Fox may be trying to break one of the strongest chemical bonds in existence, but she’s not fazed by the challenge. Instead, she’s excited to be part of an Undergraduate Research Academy project that could help millions of people around the world. (More)
Alexis Rayburn has been bitten by the research bug — and now, as part of an Undergraduate Research Academy project focused on insect studies, she’s working to discover how alpine moths have changed over the last 40 years. (More)
New research co-published by Colin Wren, Associate Professor of Anthropology at UCCS, illustrates a new, multidisciplinary approach to studying how humans have responded to climate threats in the past, and demonstrates that these strategies can be adapted to modern contexts. (More)
The high-stakes remapping of Colorado’s congressional and legislative districts touches nearly every hot-button issue of our times — and this is community members’ last chance to make their voices heard, says Rebecca Theobald, Assistant Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies. (More)
Brendan Gould, a first-year computer science and mathematics major, is working to discover how to cause humans to drive more safely — mathematically. Gould answered eight questions about the research, part of his Undergraduate Research Academy project. (More)
Despite the impacts of COVID-19 on research capacity, UCCS has witnessed a banner year for sponsored programs — research funded in whole or in part by external funds — and scholarly activity. (More)
Thanks to a cutting-edge multispectral imaging system, students from Helen Davies’ Archives and Digital Humanities course were able to read sections of an Ellis Island-era diary, along with two medieval manuscripts, for the first time since they were written. (More)
John Harner, Professor of Geography, has spent two decades asking, “What is the essence of Colorado Springs?” Now, he is answering the question in a new book timed with Colorado Springs’ 150th birthday: “Profiting From the Peak: Landscape and Liberty in Colorado Springs.” (More)
A team of UCCS researchers, made up of both resilience and cybersecurity experts, aims to create a secure, practical, end-to-end cyberinfrastructure that could accelerate the pace of scientific discovery in human resilience research. (More)
The team behind Project CREST: Changing Research Experiences, Structures, and (in)Tolerance writes that it has the potential to advance the national research agenda by including more women-identified and minority researchers in the discovery of new ideas and technologies. (More)