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padding-right: 0px;"> <div class="column main-column col-lg-8 column--first col-12 flex-grow-1"> <div class="container ucb-page-title bs-background-unstyled block"> <div aria-hidden="true" class="h1"> <span>Research & Creative Work 2020-21</span> </div> </div> <div> <div class="ucb-basic-page-body container bs-background-unstyled block"> <p><strong>Resilience</strong>, <strong>collaboration</strong> and <strong>impact</strong> come to mind when reflecting on University of Colorado Boulder research, scholarship and creative works in 2020–21.</p><p>Record-breaking sponsored research funding—headlined by $634 million in total gifts and awards, $481 million of which was awarded by federal agencies—provides measurable evidence of the resilience of our researchers, faculty, students and staff.</p><p>The spirit of teamwork that bolsters our campus culture is also on display in our most significant research efforts, several of which appear below. Collaborations like the <a href="/research/report/2020-21/historic-mars-mission" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="cca5c26b-00bb-4937-8e46-6dbeb107c820" data-entity-substitution="canonical" rel="nofollow" title="Historic Mars mission: accomplished">Emirates Mars Mission</a>, the <a href="/research/report/2020-21/what-nose-knows" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="e8a23b39-79aa-47d9-badc-46e9faf471a7" data-entity-substitution="canonical" rel="nofollow" title="What the Nose Knows">Odor2Action project</a> and the <a href="/research/report/2020-21/future-transportation-electric" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="3ea55077-4e08-4ed8-a08a-47793bb7ecf9" data-entity-substitution="canonical" rel="nofollow" title="The future of transportation is electric">ASPIRE transportation center</a> are generating buzz globally. Closer to home, new initiatives like the <a href="/research/report/2020-21/shared-dream-becomes-reality" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="9aa2bcc0-0ceb-4c11-9208-8af7b2a54d26" data-entity-substitution="canonical" rel="nofollow" title="A shared dream becomes a reality">Center for African and African American Studies</a> and the <a href="/research/report/2020-21/new-science-teaming" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="4c199546-e250-4c9e-8434-09131799bbe4" data-entity-substitution="canonical" rel="nofollow" title="The new science of teaming">AI Institute for Student-AI Teaming</a> illustrate the boundless possibilities of students, faculty, staff, peer universities and federal partners uniting for a common purpose.</p><p>From learning how to <a href="/research/report/2020-21/what-covid-19-taught-us" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="1cde17f0-7711-47f7-a559-d6f9f7a729cc" data-entity-substitution="canonical" rel="nofollow" title="What COVID-19 taught us">best address COVID-19</a> to tackling the ever-expanding effects of our changing climate, CU Boulder faculty, staff and students will always be found at the leading edge of the issues that matter most.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="column auxiliary-column col-lg-4 column--second col-12 flex-grow-1"> <div class="container block block-layout-builder block-inline-blocktext-block bs-background-unstyled bs-background-none bs-title-scale-default bs-content-scale-default bs-heading-align-default"> <div class="text-block-body block-content"> <div><a href="/node/824" rel="nofollow"> <div class="imageMediaStyle medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/medium_750px_50_display_size_/public/2024-08/RR21-terri_fiez3ga-lg_0.jpg?itok=5Wt1dFsg" width="750" height="323" alt="Terri Fiez"> </div> </a><p><a class="ucb-link-button ucb-link-button-gold ucb-link-button-regular ucb-link-button-full" href="/research/report/2020-21/letter-vice-chancellor" rel="nofollow"><span class="ucb-link-button-contents">Letter from the Vice Chancellor</span></a></p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <style> .ucb-bootstrap-layout-section.section-66ba56b8059aa{ padding-top: 0px ; padding-bottom: 0px ; } .section-66ba56b8059aa.ucb-content-frame { padding-left: 0px ; padding-right: 0px ; } @media(min-width: 768px) { .ucb-bootstrap-layout-section.section-66ba56b8059aa{ padding-top: 0px ; padding-bottom: 0px ; } .section-66ba56b8059aa.ucb-content-frame { padding-left: 0px ; padding-right: 0px ; } } @media(min-width: 992px) { .ucb-bootstrap-layout-section.section-66ba56b8059aa{ padding-top: 40px ; padding-bottom: 40px ; } .section-66ba56b8059aa.ucb-content-frame { padding-left: 0px ; padding-right: 0px ; } } </style> <div class="ucb-bootstrap-layout-section section-66ba56b8059aa ucb-bootstrap-layout__background-color--white ucb-bootstrap-layout-section-overlay-none scrolling-background" style="background: none, url(/sites/default/files/2024-08/RR21-funding_numbers_geodesic_2_enhanced.jpg); background-position: 50% 50%;; background-size: cover; background-repeat: no-repeat;"> <div class="container ucb-contained-row"> <div class="ucb-bootstrap-layout__row-width--12 row ucb-bootstrap-layout__row ucb-bootstrap-layout__row--one-column ucb-content-frame content-frame-none" style="padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px;"> <div class="column column--first col-12 main-column"> <div class="container block block-layout-builder block-inline-blockcontent-grid content-grid-block bs-background-unstyled bs-background-none bs-title-scale-default bs-content-scale-default bs-heading-align-default"> <div class="row row-cols-lg-2 row-cols-md-2 row-cols-1"> <div class="col"> <div class="grid-card"> <div class="d-flex flex-column-reverse justify-content-end"> <div class="grid-text-container"> <a href="/research/report/2020-21/historic-mars-mission"> <strong class="h3">Historic Mars mission: accomplished</strong> </a> </div> <a role="presentation" aria-hidden="true" class="grid-image-container grid-fill" href="/research/report/2020-21/historic-mars-mission"> <img src="/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/2024-08/RR21-emm-hope-cover_edited_edges.jpg?h=56d0ca2e&itok=oNEUTqzZ" alt="Engineers at CU Boulder’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) perform last-minute inspections of the Hope Probe spacecraft before its shipment to Dubai and the Tanegashima launch site in Japan."> </a> </div> <div class="grid-text-container"> <div><p>How years of international collaboration led to Hope circling Mars</p></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col"> <div class="grid-card"> <div class="d-flex flex-column-reverse justify-content-end"> <div class="grid-text-container"> <a href="/research/report/2020-21/what-covid-19-taught-us"> <strong class="h3">What COVID-19 taught us</strong> </a> </div> <a role="presentation" aria-hidden="true" class="grid-image-container grid-fill" href="/research/report/2020-21/what-covid-19-taught-us"> <img src="/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/2024-08/RR21-covid_taught_us-crop.jpg?h=e87b78fe&itok=1fct_1WZ" alt="Diners eating at restaurant patio"> </a> </div> <div class="grid-text-container"> <div><p>How lessons learned under lockdown could lead to a brighter future</p></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col"> <div class="grid-card"> <div class="d-flex flex-column-reverse justify-content-end"> <div class="grid-text-container"> <a href="/research/report/2020-21/shared-dream-becomes-reality"> <strong class="h3">A shared dream becomes a reality</strong> </a> </div> <a role="presentation" aria-hidden="true" class="grid-image-container grid-fill" href="/research/report/2020-21/shared-dream-becomes-reality"> <img src="/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/2024-11/RR21-africanamericanstudies_buff-march-color00061-1-crop_2.jpg?h=de11eb4a&itok=oVnCQWRF" alt="Black Lives Matter CU Buffs march"> </a> </div> <div class="grid-text-container"> <div><p>New center to focus on African and African American studies</p></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col"> <div class="grid-card"> <div class="d-flex flex-column-reverse justify-content-end"> <div class="grid-text-container"> <a href="/research/report/2020-21/what-nose-knows"> <strong class="h3">What the nose knows</strong> </a> </div> <a role="presentation" aria-hidden="true" class="grid-image-container grid-fill" href="/research/report/2020-21/what-nose-knows"> <img src="/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/2024-08/RR21-cu_odor2action4ga_cmyk.jpg?h=c282529e&itok=h7RlvIzf" alt="John Crimaldi"> </a> </div> <div class="grid-text-container"> <div><p>New international network explores how odors lead to actions</p></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col"> <div class="grid-card"> <div class="d-flex flex-column-reverse justify-content-end"> <div class="grid-text-container"> <a href="/research/report/2020-21/future-transportation-electric"> <strong class="h3">The future of transportation is electric</strong> </a> </div> <a role="presentation" aria-hidden="true" class="grid-image-container grid-fill" href="/research/report/2020-21/future-transportation-electric"> <img src="/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/2024-08/RR21-electrifying_transportation.jpg?h=05c62fa1&itok=m6cn2A_W" alt="Electric car driving on a road in Boulder, CO"> </a> </div> <div class="grid-text-container"> <div><p>New engineering research center aims to electrify transportation, expand education</p></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col"> <div class="grid-card"> <div class="d-flex flex-column-reverse justify-content-end"> <div class="grid-text-container"> <a href="/research/report/2020-21/new-science-teaming"> <strong class="h3">The new science of teaming</strong> </a> </div> <a role="presentation" aria-hidden="true" class="grid-image-container grid-fill" href="/research/report/2020-21/new-science-teaming"> <img src="/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/2024-08/RR21-ai_in_classroom_dmello_lab1ga-crop.jpg?h=60144290&itok=pYfxM3Mn" alt="AI in the classroom"> </a> </div> <div class="grid-text-container"> <div><p>Artificial intelligence in classrooms could add up to real advances in education</p></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col"> <div class="grid-card"> <div class="d-flex flex-column-reverse justify-content-end"> <div class="grid-text-container"> <a href="/research/report/2020-21/keeping-it-cool-17000-miles-hour"> <strong class="h3">Keeping it cool at 17,000 miles per hour</strong> </a> </div> <a role="presentation" aria-hidden="true" class="grid-image-container grid-fill" href="/research/report/2020-21/keeping-it-cool-17000-miles-hour"> <img src="/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/2024-08/RR21-orion_entry_image.jpg?h=e75ab034&itok=ZBWItTMn" alt="Flight of space capsule through the atmosphere"> </a> </div> <div class="grid-text-container"> <div><p>CU Boulder leads $15M NASA institute making hypersonic entry safer</p></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col"> <div class="grid-card"> <div class="d-flex flex-column-reverse justify-content-end"> <div class="grid-text-container"> <a href="https://live-ucbdev-homepage.pantheonsite.io/research/report/2020-21#arts"> <strong class="h3">Arts, Humanities & Society</strong> </a> </div> <a role="presentation" aria-hidden="true" class="grid-image-container grid-fill" href="https://live-ucbdev-homepage.pantheonsite.io/research/report/2020-21#arts"> <img src="/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/2024-08/RR21-back_cover_2_pearl_st_mural2-copy.jpg?h=56d0ca2e&itok=cJ3mxNnN" alt="Sea ice mural in downtown Boulder by Kendall Kippley"> </a> </div> <div class="grid-text-container"> <div><p>Enriching our world through art, music, education and equity</p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <style> 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.ucb-bootstrap-layout-section.section-66bb99f92f8e6{ padding-top: 0px ; padding-bottom: 0px ; } .section-66bb99f92f8e6.ucb-content-frame { padding-left: 0px ; padding-right: 0px ; } } @media(min-width: 992px) { .ucb-bootstrap-layout-section.section-66bb99f92f8e6{ padding-top: 0px ; padding-bottom: 0px ; } .section-66bb99f92f8e6.ucb-content-frame { padding-left: 0px ; padding-right: 0px ; } } </style> <div class="ucb-bootstrap-layout-section section-66bb99f92f8e6 ucb-bootstrap-layout__background-color--black fixed-background" style=""> <div class="container ucb-contained-row"> <div class="ucb-bootstrap-layout__row-width--6-6 row ucb-bootstrap-layout__row ucb-bootstrap-layout__row--two-column ucb-content-frame content-frame-none content-frame-unstyled" style="padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px;"> <div class="column main-column col-lg-6 column--first col-12 flex-grow-1"> <div class="container block block-layout-builder block-inline-blockcontent-list ucb-content-list 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class="ucb-content-list-image-container col-2"> <a role="presentation" aria-hidden="true" href="https://www.colorado.edu/research/report/2020-21/gigantic-flare"><img class="ucb-content-list-image" src="/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_square/public/2024-08/RR21-nrao21ao02_proximaflare_artistimp_v1.jpg?h=e75ab034&itok=AUvUGQKQ" alt="Solar flare"></a> </div> <div class="ucb-content-list-text-container col-10"> <span class="ucb-content-list-title"><a href="https://www.colorado.edu/research/report/2020-21/gigantic-flare">Gigantic flare from sun’s nearest neighbor breaks records</a></span> </div> </div> <div class="row ucb-content-list-row"> <div class="ucb-content-list-image-container col-2"> <a role="presentation" aria-hidden="true" href="https://www.colorado.edu/research/report/2020-21/tiny-moon-shadows"><img class="ucb-content-list-image" src="/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_square/public/2024-08/RR21-bellecrater_cmyk.jpg?h=4a707dff&itok=TYSYo_cd" alt="Belle Crater 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