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CU-Boulder’s third annual WASH Symposium gave nearly 100 attendees an insider’s look into the development of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), a proposed set of targets for international development that are set to replace the Millennium Development Goals when they expire at the end of 2015. The event...

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 – assistant professors Shideh Dashti and Fernando Rosario-Ortiz – are from the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural...

Engineering News Record’s Mountain States edition recently named two civil engineering Buffs to its Top 20 Under 40 list. The list recognizes those working full-time in some aspect of the commercial construction industry who have shown themselves to be leaders, pioneers or mentors in the industry. Alumnus Matt Hoster (CivEngr’00)...

Roseanna Neupauer performs an original rap for her hydrology class. Two recent awards leave little doubt that associate professor Roseanna Neupauer is an outstanding teacher. Neupauer has been named to the University of Colorado’s President’s Teaching Scholars Program, and has also received a Fulbright Fellowship to spend a summer in...

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 University of Colorado Boulder have invented a simpler process that can simultaneously...

Tad Pfeffer is a big thinker. This spring, for instance, the CU-Boulder professor helped lead a research group that mapped nearly 200,000 glaciers around the world to better understand how much seas could rise as the planet warms. A fellow at CU’s Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Pfeffer has...

The College of Engineering and Applied Science at CU-Boulder has partnered with Catholic University in Santiago, Chile, to offer students in all majors the opportunity to earn an international dual PhD degree. The international dual PhD degree programs are structured so that students can pursue coursework at CU-Boulder and an...

The Environmental Sustainability Group at CU-Boulder is a consortium of faculty from the departments of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering and Mechanical Engineering working in the areas of environmental engineering and sustainability. Check out the first edition of their Green Scene newsletter here .

Richard Regueiro, associate professor of civil, environmental and architectural engineering, is one of four University of Colorado Boulder faculty and staff who received Fulbright Scholar grants to pursue research, teaching and training abroad during the 2014-15 academic year. Regueiro, who will be at the University of Oxford until late December,...

Professor Matt Hallowell was one of 77 engineering educators nationwide chosen to attend the recent National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Education symposium, which brings together young faculty members who are developing and implementing innovative educational approaches. Hallowell was chosen for a model he’s been working on to efficiently...