Student Stories
- The U.S. Marine Corps veteran and CU Boulder student has begun an online coffee company, with the profits going to benefit disaster relief, first responders, and U.S. veterans and troops overseas, including those providing relief and other assistance in Ukraine.
- Travis Weis, a third-year architecture major from Denver, created Release The Mind to help spread positivity through clothing that aims to simultaneously support the community and environment.
- The Department of Mechanical Engineering seniors have built a silicon wafer center-finding improvement device to help combat the current semiconductor shortage.
- Five startup ventures, led by CU Boulder students and faculty, competed for more than $100,000 in prize money Tuesday evening at the 14th annual New Venture Challenge championship, CU Boulder's premier entrepreneurial program and competition.
- Founded by two engineering alums, this 3D-printing company found support and funding after attending a venture launch course at Leeds School of Business.
- Seven teams pitched new startups after seven months of entrepreneurial training and guidance.
- Four games developed in CU Boulder's ATLAS Institute have been selected to participate in alt.ctrl.GDC 2022, a coveted showcase of new games.
- Meet Rich Turner, a current MBA student at the Leeds School of Business and Founder of Bulwark Coffee Company! Bulwark Coffee Company is the first-ever coffee company to donate 100% of profits to first responders and veterans.
- The CU Hyperloop team is one of 12 groups in the world competing to build a machine that will chew through nearly 100 feet of earth to create a tunnel as fast as possible.
- A team of designers and engineers at CU Boulder’s ATLAS Institute is drawing from new advancements in the field of soft robotics to develop shape-changing objects that are paper-thin, fast-moving and almost completely silent. The researchers’ early creations, which they’ve dubbed “Electriflow,†include origami cranes that can bend their necks, flower petals that wiggle with the touch of a button and, yes, fluttering insects.