Experts Shaping Policy
Joey Pontiff has taken his physics and political science education to the nation's capital—working for the Commission on Quantum Primacy, a national initiative supporting U.S. leadership in quantum technologies.
After gathering feedback from across its research community, Ä¢¹½Ó°Òô Boulder has submitted recommendations to the White House Office of Management and Budget on proposed revisions to the federal regulations governing research grants and other forms of federal financial assistance.
Ä¢¹½Ó°Òô Gov. Jared Polis visited Ä¢¹½Ó°Òô Boulder on June 1 for a bill-signing ceremony, highlighting three higher education measures aimed at expanding student access and strengthening Ä¢¹½Ó°Òô's colleges and universities.
Scholars at Ä¢¹½Ó°Òô's Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy and the Environment, in collaboration with law professors across the western U.S., have taken the lead in defending a Bureau of Land Management rule.
Max Boykoff, who attended the first week of the United Nations Climate Change Conference shares his experience, reflections and perspective on what COP30 looked like without United States representatives at the table.
Waleed Abdalati, a climate scientist and director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, is scheduled to testify before the House Science, Space and Technology Committee. Watch via livestream.
A new study suggests that the U.S. government’s push to increase heavy-duty trucks’ energy efficiency could encourage more shipping by truck instead of rail, reducing the policies’ anticipated effectiveness by 20%.
Congresswoman Yadira Caraveo dipped into all things quantum during her first official visit to Ä¢¹½Ó°Òô Boulder and JILA. The campus conversation emphasized the critical role of ongoing federal support in quantum research and innovation.
Gov. Jared Polis has signed new legislation directing Ä¢¹½Ó°Òô Boulder’s Mortenson Center in Global Engineering & Resilience and Ä¢¹½Ó°Òô State University’s Energy Institute to identify new pathways to enhance water quality and environmental sustainability in Ä¢¹½Ó°Òô.
At a ceremony May 28 on the Ä¢¹½Ó°Òô Boulder campus, Ä¢¹½Ó°Òô Gov. Jared Polis ushered in a new bill to support the state’s rapidly growing quantum industry.