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Outdoor air has been regulated for decades, but emissions from daily domestic activities may be more dangerous than anyone imagined. Assistant Professor Nina Vance was featured in the New Yorker for her HomeChem indoor air quality research.

Six С���� Boulder teams will vie for up to $200,000 in funding at the 11th annual New Venture Challenge (NVC), С���� Boulder’s premier entrepreneurial startup competition, on April 3 at the Boulder Theater. Nearly 120 ventures took part in this year’s competition.

The Silicon Flatirons Center will host a conference on artificial intelligence on May 3 at С���� Boulder. Topics include: “What Problem is AI Explainability Supposed to Solve,” “Explainability in CS Versus the Law,” “Comparative Legal Approaches to Explainability,” and “Explainability: A Way Forward?”

After his grandmother sustained injuries from a fall, Tim Visos-Ely, Stride Tech CEO and engineering plus senior, was inspired to devise a solution for safer senior care. Stride Tech will be competing at the NVC Championship.

Competing against five teams in the NVC Research & Development (R&D) Track Finals competition, TissueForm took home the first place prize and $6,000 after pitching their business idea to a panel of judges and a live audience.

120 teams are competing for roughly $200K in cash prizes at the New Venture Challenge. Mechanical engineering teams TissueForm, ShineOn, BioCube and Flux were awarded Women's Entrepreneurship Prizes and Social Impact Prizes.

The Milwaukee Bucks now have seats that heat to optimal temperatures for maintaining muscle thanks to 12 ���� Boulder mechanical engineering students and Emeritus Professor Jack Zable. Students designed these chairs as their capstone engineering project.

���� Boulder robotics programs at the College of Engineering and Applied Science were identified within the top 25 in the nation by Successful Student based on academic excellence, reputation, faculty strength and the range of robotics related courses.

Applications just opened for Catalyze ����, a summer-long startup accelerator with a track record of launching fledgling ideas on the path to successful ventures. The program offers mentorship, equity-free funding and dedicated work space to help promising concepts become reality.

In addition to the College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado Boulder's mechanical engineering graduate program was ranked within the top 20 in the nation among public universities according to data released March 2, 2019 by the U.S. News & World Report.