Can AI help save Colorado’s rivers?

The Colorado River Basin is enduring one of the longest and most severe droughts in modern history. The river, vital…

Future-proof: Construction boom hits Denver’s downtown

Editor’s note: Throughout the 2025–26 academic year, RED’s Future-proof series will focus on real-world outcomes, community needs and the critical…

Future-proof: Computer Science majors learn to collaborate with AI

Editor’s note: Throughout the 2025-26 academic year, RED’s Future-proof series will focus on real-world outcomes, community needs and the critical…

Engineering students get real skills, virtually

Faisal Kaweesa stands in a Metropolitan State University of Denver Mechanical Engineering Technology classroom, a pair of goggles obscuring his…

Internship propels student toward career in race-car design

When Marco Antonacci first met Daniel Spicher in a Bicycle Design and Fabrication course at Metropolitan State University of Denver,…

19-year-old graduate charts a course toward a career in air-traffic control

Adelaide Britton has known for a while what she wanted to be when she grew up. She just wasn’t sure…

New Aerospace Missions program to lift off this fall

He’s only 28, but Tyler Gilchrist has already made his mark in the space industry — and left his name…

MSU Denver Commencement speaker is a trailblazer who soars in the arts and in space

There are exceptional people, and then there are exceptional people. Ed Dwight is one of the latter. In the 1950s,…

Students wow outdoor gear pros with innovative backpack prototypes

One backpack included a pepper-spray holder. Another featured a way to lock a bike helmet to it and reflective tape…

Fear is flying high

Not long ago, getting on an airplane was a routine, if somewhat unpleasant, experience. That started changing when a fleet…

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