News
A team led by Environmental Engineering Professor Evan Thomas received a $650,000 NSF Convergence Accelerator grant to measure and mitigate pollution in Colorado's Cache la Poudre and Yampa Rivers through new sensor technology, monitoring and a voluntary carbon credits trading system with industry.
Professor Abbie Liel's work focuses on finding new ways to design and assess structures to withstand extreme conditions, aiming to make them safer and more sustainable.
Associate Professor Aditi Bhaskar, from CU Boulder鈥檚 Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, and Assistant Professor Isabella Oleksy, of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, received a $296,000 grant from the Colorado Water Board to investigate ground cover options that could replace turfgrass.
The Alumni Engagement Medal (AEM) was established for college academic degree programs and the BOLD Center to recognize highly engaged alumni who impact their areas through volunteerism and philanthropic support.
Professors Edith Zagona and Joseph Kasprzyk were interviewed by the Washington Post for an article on how the federal government is using CU Boulder's innovative web-based tools to forecast the river鈥檚 future flows.
鈥淎 great scientist. A beloved colleague. A dear friend.鈥 These sentiments were shared globally in remembrance of structural engineering Professor Emeritus Kaspar Willam, who passed away on Jan. 7 in his home country of Austria at the age of 83.
WHISPER Energy, a startup aiming to bring to market a wireless sensor platform, will be presented at the University of Colorado Boulder's 2024 Embark Showcase on Jan. 24. Developed by a multi-institutional team under the leadership of Professor Gregor Henze, the innovative technology seeks to optimize energy consumption in both residential and commercial settings by intelligently adjusting usage based on detecting human presence.
Jorge "Santi" Santiago Ram铆rez N煤帽ez, a second-year PhD student advised by Associate Professor Aditi Bhaskar, received the W. Mark Harty Memorial Engineering Fellowship Fund, supporting graduate students in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering focusing on water resources.
Some architectural engineering textbooks were too general or overly聽specific. However, Professor John Zhai聽struck the perfect balance with his book, earning him the College of Engineering and Applied Science Textbook Recognition Award.
Teaching Professor Matt Morris asked his students to help pour concrete. Students came. Two came back again. And again. For more than a year.