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Highlights from Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder’s research, scholarship and creative work in 2021-22 paint a compelling picture of our progress towards our strategic imperatives. Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder again attracted record levels of research funding this year—$658 million in gifts and awards, including $474 million from federal agencies.

According to a new report from the Leeds School of Business, commercialization activities led by Venture Partners at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder had an economic impact of $8 billion nationally and $5.2 billion in the state of Colorado over the last five years—a four-fold increase in impact since 2019.

The intercampus program stimulates innovative research collaborations and progress toward solving some of our world’s most pressing health problems. After receiving funding from the AB Nexus grant program, awarded teams have attracted $13 million in outside funding and published more than 20 peer-reviewed research studies.

CIRES/Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder and NOAA researchers contributed to two of the four awarded projects—one for rapid-response science in service to communities after the Marshall Fire, and another for a breakthrough space weather model that serves several economic sectors with better impact forecasts.

The Research & Innovation Office has announced the 2023 RIO Faculty Fellows cohort, which includes 17 faculty members from departments and research institutes spanning the campus.

Vitro3D, a Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder startup pioneering volumetric 3D printing for life sciences, just closed its first investment round of $1.3 million. The hard-won vote of confidence from the investment community will allow the promising new venture to pursue ambitious technical advances while continuing to build critical business capacity.

This new quantum focus in the research alliance between Lockheed Martin and Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder represents the latest extension of this longstanding, wide-ranging relationship, which was expanded when the organizations entered into a Master Research Agreement in 2019. 

As part of this year’s Research & Innovation Week, Massimo Ruzzene, acting vice chancellor for research and innovation and dean of the institutes at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder, shared important insights and aspirations from the university’s research and innovation enterprise during an Oct. 17 webinar.   

There are still plenty of opportunities this fall to help fund your research, scholarship and creative work through the Research & Innovation Office (RIO)’s Faculty Webinars and Workshops.

Research & Innovation Week, hosted by the Research and Innovation Office and featuring events for students, faculty, staff and the community, returns to its predominantly in-person format this week. Events showcase research, scholarship and creative work from across the campus.