Research at ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder encompasses thousands of scholarly, scientific and creative endeavors at any given time, resulting in new knowledge, technologies and creative work that advance the economy, culture and health of Colorado, the nation and the world. Here is a selection of the top ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä research stories of the week.
BioServe Space Technologies: ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder's presence on the International Space Station
If you gaze at the night sky from Earth in just the right place, you will see the International Space Station (ISS), a bright speck of light hurtling through space at 5 miles per second as it orbits 220 miles above the planet.ÌýAnd if you were an astronaut floating around inside the station, you would see high-tech hardware and experiments designed and built at the University of Colorado Boulder.
$24 million NSF grant to establish imaging science center at ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder
¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder will expand its role as a national leader in imaging, materials, nano, bio and energy sciences as part of a collaborative partnership awarded $24 million by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to launch a new center.ÌýThe Science and Technology Center on Real-Time Functional Imaging, known as STROBE, will be headquartered at ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder and will integrate several areas of imaging science and technology, including photon and electron-based imaging, advanced algorithms, big data analysis and adaptive imaging.
Research in documentary film gets inside the mind of a poker player
A ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder researcher will appear in a French documentary that delves into the minds of world-class poker players.ÌýAssistant Professor McKell CarterÌýofÌýtheÌýÌýstudies how social information influences the decisions people make – for example, how our knowledge of what other people are likely to do influences our own behaviors. HeÌýis especially interested in understanding how a particular area of the brain called the temporal-parietal junction helps us predict other people’s behaviors. His expertise will be part of the 52-minute film,ÌýPoker Mind.Ìý
Physics professors Margaret Murnane and Henry Kapteyn of the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA) pose next to one of the laser apparatuses in their lab at the University of Colorado Boulder campus. Murnane will serve as director of STROBE.
Assistant Professor McKell CarterÌýofÌýtheÌýInstitute of Cognitive Science.