University of Colorado at Boulder - Notable Accomplishments at CU

Notable Accomplishments At CU

• First to create a new form of matter, the Bose-Einstein condensate, just a few hundred billionths of a degree above absolute zero.
• First to observe a "fermionic condensate" formed from pairs of atoms in a gas.
• Developed the "FluChip" to aid physicians in diagnosing respiratory illness and differentiating between three types of influenza and other viruses that cause similar symptoms.
• First place in the 2002 and 2005 U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon. At these first two Solar Decathlon competitions, students and faculty from the Engineering and Architecture programs collaborated to design, construct, transport, and rebuild a house powered exclusively by the sun.
• The number one university recipient of NASA funding
• The Squid server which is used by Wikipedia and several other websites was created at the University of Colorado Boulder by Duane Wessels as part of Harvest project under grant from National Science Foundation.
• First zero waste sports stadium (both collegiate and professional) in the nation.
• Currently houses the most financially powerful student government in the nation.
• First student government to be zero waste in the nation.