2,000+
undergraduates directly
involved in research
#1
public university recipient
of NASA research
650
faculty and students involved in
interdisciplinary bioscience research
#22
worldwide for research
and scholarly impact
University of Colorado Boulder 
undergraduates directly
involved in research
public university recipient
of NASA research
faculty and students involved in
interdisciplinary bioscience research
worldwide for research
and scholarly impact
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As one of the nation’s top regions for technology, innovation and start up business, our faculty, staff and students contribute over $2 billion each year in economic impact.
Establishing vital connections and partnerships with businesses, industries and federal institutions is a core mission in advancing our research endeavors.
Integrating Research and Teaching
The fusion of teaching and research is a fundamental part of a CU-Boulder education. Our faculty research is intertwined within our academic departments, classes and interdisciplinary programs.
CU Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics has designed, built and launched an instrument to every planet in the solar system and leads the science operations for the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission (MAVEN), which orbits and studies the red planet’s atmosphere.
Atmospheric and Surface Composition Spectrometer
Photopolarimeter System
Photopolarimeter System
Ultraviolet Spectrometer
Ultraviolet Spectrometer
Ultraviolet Imaging
Spectrometer and Extreme Ultraviolet Monitor
Ultra photometer
Ultraviolet Spectrometer
Photopolarimeter System
Ultravioet Imaging Spectrograph
Photopolarimeter System
Ultraviolet Spectrometer and
Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer
More than 5,000 students, primarily undergraduates, have been directly involved in the consortium’s hands-on space hardware program.
CU-Boulder faculty led the design of a $70 million instrument now flying on the Hubble Space Telescope known as the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph.
Sixteen CU-Boulder astronaut-affiliates flew on 40 space shuttle missions, including two, Jim Voss and Joe Tanner, who now are on the university faculty.
BioServe Space Technologies (aerospace engineering sciences) has designed, built and flown over 50 payloads on 40 spaceflight missions on space shuttles.