Hear about Lori Peek's formative years in small-town Kansas, her love for teaching and mentoring and how her research is helping us learn from disasters like Hurricane Katrina and the COVID-19 pandemic. Peek is a professor, faculty associate at the Institute of Behavioral Science and the director of the Natural Hazards Center.
Follow Jun Ye, director of the ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉäbit Quantum Initiative, from his childhood in China to helping realize the vast potential of quantum science and technology at ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder.
Associate Professor Shideh Dashti answered questions on the anniversary of the disaster. Her team researches the influence of extreme events on interacting soil-foundation-structure systems and the resilience of urban infrastructure.
Guidance surrounding technology and end-of-life planning is missing. To close this gap, Assistant Professor Jed Brubaker is embarking on a five-year research project supported by a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation.
The inaugural season of Buff Innovator Insights, a new podcast from the Research & Innovation Office, kicked off March 18. In the first episode, we meet Margaret Murnane, a professor of physics and one of the world’s leading experts in ultrafast laser and x-ray science.
We invited engineering students to interview current faculty members they respect and admire about their journeys into engineering, the challenges they've overcome and their advice for younger generations.
Jack Chin, the father of Professor Karen Chin, was just 17 when he enrolled in the U.S. Army Air Forces as a member of the final class of Tuskegee Airmen.
