Mike Rivera talks to several guests in the Utility Research Lab

Brewing Sustainability: Michael Rivera powers up 3D printing with coffee grounds

Sept. 26, 2024

Carnegie Mellon University alumni profile details how our Utility Research Lab director employs sustainable materials in place of plastics in 3D printing and textile development.

Carson Bruns in a white lab coat working with tattoo equipment in his lab

Bruns receives Provost's Faculty Achievement Award

Sept. 20, 2024

ATLAS assistant professor, Carson Bruns, was among a group of five SMµ÷½ÌËù Boulder pre-tenure faculty recognized for excellence in teaching, scholarship, leadership and service. He was selected for his research on smart tattoos.

A large metal sculpture of a "greater than / less than" sign hangs in a modern art gallery

Denver artist Joel Swanson questions everything

Sept. 16, 2024

ATLAS associate professor's new gallery show, "Orderings," challenges basic assumptions of everyday order through sculpture, mixed media, video and more.

Christopher Gaines holds clay-colored square with a tactile representation of a sun petroglyph

Touching the Sun with Solar Stones

Aug. 27, 2024

ATLAS undergraduate students partnered with NASA's PUNCH mission and the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind to make tactile representations of ancient petroglyphs.

Laura Devendorf stands smiling in the Unstable Design Lab while holding a colorful woven form and showing it to guests

Devendorf bridges engineering and craft communities with new initiative

Aug. 13, 2024

The Unstable Design Lab director has embarked on the first phase of a years-long project to bring together engineering and craft communities to advance textile research across a range of scientific disciplines.

Ruhan Yang sits behind a table showing off paper circuits research at the conference

Colorado-based Computer Graphics Professionals Make Their Mark at SIGGRAPH 2024

Aug. 2, 2024

ATLAS community members, including professor Ellen Do and PhD student Ruhan Yang, presented at this year's conference in Denver.

Ruhan stands in the ACME Lab holding examples of her paper robots

ATLAS PhD student deploys papercraft to make engineering tangible and fun

July 30, 2024

ATLAS PhD student Ruhan Yang blends papercraft and circuit design to make engineering more tangible, accessible and fun for tinkerers of all ages.

Suibi Che-Chuan Weng receives his award certificate

Public-private partnership drives attention for ATLAS research in augmented and mixed reality

July 18, 2024

ACME Lab members built relationships with industry players through the Pervasive Personalized Intelligence (PPI) Center by collaborating on solutions to challenges in building Internet of Things systems. Three ATLAS PhD students took home awards from the PPI Center's Spring 2024 Advisory Board Meeting.

Demonstration of biofibers spinning machine extruding fiber from gelatin substrate

How fibers spun from gelatin could help reduce textile waste

July 8, 2024

NPR interviews Utility Research Lab director, Michael Rivera, on biofibers research for use in sustainable textiles.

Bret Mann looks up in Black Box studio

Bret Mann retires after decades as the ATLAS Institute’s behind-the-scenes tech guru

June 27, 2024

Bret Mann, technical manager and broadcast engineer for ATLAS B2 Center for Media, Arts and Performance, retires on July 1, 2024. He was instrumental in designing the ATLAS Institute’s technical capabilities from the early days and oversaw dozens of technically-complex performances and events in the Black Box Experimental Studio.

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