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- An e-textile prototype board developed by Alexandra Charland, a聽Creative Technology & Design and computer science double-major, was featured on Hackaday, a popular hardware hacking website. Charland聽worked with ATLAS PhD Student Chris Hill to聽develop the prototype in the post.
- Katherine聽Goodman, TMS'15, is with聽a University of Colorado Denver research group spearheading an effort to help students "from all walks of life" feel welcome in engineering.聽The project, Broadening Participation in Engineering, received a $350,000聽National Science Foundation聽grant to support聽a three-year faculty learning community聽within CU Denver's聽College of Engineering, Design and Computing.
- 鈥婨llen Do, professor of computer science with the ATLAS Institute,聽has a long history of doing community outreach and service for the ACM Creativity & Cognition聽Conference, and this year is no exception.
- Through a generous gift, Dale and Pat Hatfield recently enabled the creation of the first endowed professorship associated with the ATLAS Institute.
- Despite a challenging academic year, this spring 42 ATLAS students earned BS degrees in Creative Technology and Design, three received MS-Social Impact degrees and 11 received degrees in MS-Creative Industries. Donna Auguste, who earned a PhD in Technology, Media and Society in 2019 and is now the CEO of Auguste Research Group, delivered the guest address.
- ATLAS PhD students Katie Gach, Keke Wu, Fiona Bell, Kailey Shara and Sasha Novack, and Affiliated PhD students Gabrielle Johnson, Dreycey Albin and Varsha Koushik recently received graduate school awards.
- ATLAS PhD Student Kailey Shara was an invited guest on the YouTube channel of Robert Feranec to discuss design engineering and the chemistry of printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing. In this video, Shara explains the multi-step chemical process used to electrically connect together the different layers of a circuit board.
- ATLAS researchers have聽10 published works and one special interest group associated with the聽CHI 2021 conference, the world鈥檚 preeminent conference for the field of human-computer interaction.聽聽Held virtually, CHI 2021,聽also known as ACM鈥檚 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, took place May 8-13.聽
- Before she graduated in May with a bachelor's degree in Creative Technology and Design, Monica Chairez used the skills she gained at ATLAS to help solve several needs for CU Dental School of Medicine.
- During the pandemic lockdown, Laura Devendorf used textiles woven with resistive yarns to document a particular part of her life鈥搕he daily 鈥渇orces鈥 that pressed against her body, especially her two children. Two of her memory fabric innovations are being exhibited at the The Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile (CHAT) in Hong Kong as part of the Interweaving Poetic Code exhibition.