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Mesa Quantum, a Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder spinout and leader in quantum sensing, recently announced $3.7 million in seed funding and a $1.9 million grant from SpaceWERX, the innovation arm of the U.S. Space Force. Both investments are fueling the company’s drive toward commercializing chip-scale quantum sensors for multiple applications including next-generation position, navigation and timing solutions.

With a foundation of education and specialized training augmented by years of hands-on experience leading a classroom, lab or studio in their area of expertise, faculty from universities like Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder are critical to solving society’s toughest challenges and cultivating the next generation of thinkers and problem-solvers.

Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder College of Engineering and Applied Science—A team of engineers and material scientists in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder has developed a new technology to turn thermal radiation into electricity in a way that literally teases the basic law of thermal physics.

Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder 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.

Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder College of Engineering and Applied Science—The Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ’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 Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder.

Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder 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 (Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder 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 CU. University researchers, inventors and creators began working with Venture Partners at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder to advance 144 breakthrough innovations, and 36 Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØstartups were launched through Venture Partners based on campus discoveries.

New Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder 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 Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder 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.