Visualization of interacting odor plumes

CEAE professor to lead $6.4M animal olfactory navigation research

Sept. 21, 2015

An interdisciplinary research team led by a 乐播传媒 Boulder professor has won a major NSF award to help "crack the olfactory code."

Infographic of issues that affect air quality in homes

Indoor air quality to be tested in low-income Denver homes

July 21, 2015

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awards professor Shelly Miller, professor in the Environmental Engineering Program, and her team $1 million to evaluate the impacts of climate change, including increased wildfires, on indoor air quality and health.

Shang Liu discusses his research with a conference attendee

CU-Boulder hosts fourth Microbiology of the Built Environment Conference

July 20, 2015

Environmental engineer Mark Hernandez among those turning their focus to ecosystems associated with the built environment.

NSF CAREER awards graphic

Two faculty members win prestigious NSF CAREER awards

March 26, 2015

This year, the College of Engineering and Applied Science has an unprecedented number of National Science Foundation CAREER award winners , with seven junior faculty earning this prestigious honor. Two of them 鈥 assistant professors Shideh Dashti and Fernando Rosario-Ortiz 鈥 are from the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural...

Fracking rig and wastewater

Clean oil and gas wastewater, make more energy

Feb. 27, 2015

Oil and gas operations in the United States produce about 21 billion barrels of wastewater per year. The saltiness of the water and the organic contaminants it contains have traditionally made treatment difficult and expensive. Engineers at the 乐播传媒 Boulder have invented a simpler process that can simultaneously...

3 CEAE researchers win NSF grant to study infrastructure resilience

Oct. 13, 2014

A women-led group of CU-Boulder engineering faculty will spend the next year studying how to make community infrastructure more resilient, thanks to an exploratory grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The grant is part of the NSF鈥檚 Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Processes and Systems (RIPS) project, which awarded grants to...

Linden named WateReuse Person of the Year

Oct. 2, 2014

Karl Linden , Helen and Huber Croft Professor of Environmental Engineering, was recently named WateReuse Person of the Year by the WateReuse Association at their annual award ceremony in Dallas. According to the organization, Linden was honored for his many contributions to research and education in water reuse over more...

Water treatment technology shows promise for fracking

Sept. 12, 2014

A CU-Boulder team led by Zhiyong 鈥淛ason鈥 Ren, associate professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, was recently awarded first place in the National Science Foundation鈥檚 Innovation Corps Program , which works with NSF grant recipients to 鈥渋dentify valuable product opportunities that can emerge from academic research,...

EPA awards CU-Boulder $4M for new center on drinking water safety

Sept. 10, 2014

Congratulations to environmental engineering Professor R. Scott Summers and his team! Continuing its commitment to improving America鈥檚 drinking water, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Sept. 9 announced more than $8 million in grants to create two national centers for research and innovation in small- to medium-sized drinking water...

Study: Tweets during Colorado floods gave engineers valuable data on infrastructure damage

Sept. 3, 2014

A study by three CU-Boulder professors, including Shideh Dashti , assistant professor of civil, environmental and architectural engineering, has shown that Twitter can be a valuable tool for assessing damage to infrastructure after a natural disaster. 鈥淧eople were tweeting amazing pictures and videos of damage to bridges and other infrastructure...

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