ATLAS 2020 graduate photos

ATLAS Institute Winter 2020 Graduates

Dec. 14, 2020

Please join the faculty of the ATLAS Institute in recognizing and celebrating our newest alumni, who graduate this month from the College of Engineering and Applied Science with Bachelor of Science degrees Creative Technology and Design. Equipped with uniquely interdisciplinary skill sets, they complete their undergraduate studies well prepared to...

Capstone projects

Featured Capstone Projects December 2020

Dec. 14, 2020

To finish out their studies at ATLAS, students majoring in Creative Technology & Design (CTD) complete a culminating capstone project in their senior year that draws on the wide range of technical and creative skills learned throughout their time in the program. Capstone Projects is structured as a studio course...

Photos of Lillie Bahrami, Alana Faller, and Michelle Galetti

December 2020 ATLAS Undergraduate Student Awards

Dec. 1, 2020

Graduating in December 2020 with Bachelor of Science degrees in Creative Technology and Design, the three students listed below are recognized for exceptional accomplishments, having demonstrated initiative in their academic and extracurricular activities; completed projects that reflect unusual technical creativity; and contributed significantly to the ATLAS community. ATLAS Outstanding Undergraduate...

Two young boys engage with the PEERbots app.

Autism Science Foundation awards grant to PEERbots to expand robot-powered telehealth solutions

Nov. 18, 2020

ATLAS Research Affiliate Aubrey Shick, who is also the executive director of PEERbots, will co-lead the project to expand the PEERbots platform to iOS and develop applications for the autism community.

Graphic of muscle contraction

Researchers scale up tiny actuator inspired by muscle

Nov. 12, 2020

Professor Franck Vernerey and ATLAS Assistant Professor Carson Bruns received $477,000 from the National Science Foundation to begin research on a new kind of biocompatible actuator that contracts and relaxes in only one dimension, like muscles.

Photo from Overworld performance

Q&A with Brittney Banaei, the artist and designer-of-movement behind “Overworldâ€

Nov. 11, 2020

As she wraps up the second week of her residency with the B2 Center for Media, Art and Performance in the ATLAS Institute, dancer and performer Brittney Banaei and her collaborators Constance Harris and Laura Conway have completed a vivid and dynamic performance, but they will perform it without an...

Mason Moran in ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder baseball cap and shirt.

Mason Moran, BS-CTD student and AISES president, leads ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder to recognition as top 200 college for indigenous students

Nov. 9, 2020

Artistic slide showing Ellen Do and Marshini Chetty, shown on Zoom teleconferencing before their panel began.

Professor Ellen Do: From Electronic Cocktail Napkin to Creative Technology and Design

Nov. 3, 2020

Ellen Yi-Luen Do, professor of computer science with the ATLAS Institute, participated in the Ada Lovelace Week's academic panel with a talk entitled, "From Electronic Cocktail Napkin to Creative Technology and Design." Do's academia panel with Marshini Chetty, assistant professor of computer science at the University of Chicago, focused on the impact and trajectory of scholars in the field of human computer interaction. The event was hosted by University of Chicago's Human Computer Integration Lab from Oct. 13-16.

Andrew Gruber stands in an apron with his hands crossed in his commercial kitchen.

BS-CTD student Andre Gruber co-founds artisanal bread company

Nov. 3, 2020

A-rising (pun intended) during the pandemic, Ferment is an artisanal sourdough bread company in Boulder co-founded by Andre Gruber, a senior in Creative Technology and Design, with Rafaelo Infante, an advertising major. The two ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder undergraduates are passionate about the art of fermentation and baking, and providing Boulder with delicious, sustainable food.

Chris Hill

ATLAS PhD student Chris Hill featured in Computer Research Association's website

Nov. 3, 2020

Chris Hill is an ATLAS PhD student and a member of the Craft Technology Lab, directed by Ann Eisenberg, senior research associate in the institute of cognitive science. He works on the NSF-sponsored "Debugging by Design" project, of which Eisenberg is Principal Investigator and ATLAS Director Mark Gross is co-PI.

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