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Professor Paul Chinowsky's work with infrastructure and climate changes continues to capture media attention! Click on the image to read the full story in the November edition of 5280 Magazine.

The Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering is conducting a broad search to fill multiple faculty openings. These positions are expected to add to existing strengths in interdisciplinary research thrusts such as energy; resilience and sustainability; structures and materials; geo-engineering; and civil engineering systems. We are especially interested in...

Richard Kuchenrither , CU-Boulder scholar in residence and director of the CEAE water engineering and management program, has received the 2014 Robert W. Hite Distinguished Leadership Award from the Water Environment Federation (WEF), on behalf of Water for People . The Hite award recognizes individuals who model leadership excellence through...

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’s Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Processes and Systems (RIPS) project, which awarded grants to...

July 2014 was the 50th anniversary of one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded in Anchorage, Alaska. But when a team of CU-Boulder students visited the city, they were concerned with ground motions on a somewhat smaller scale. The student chapter of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) was chosen...

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...

This past summer, the University of Colorado Boulder chapter of Bridges to Prosperity built a 79-meter pedestrian footbridge in Ichoca, Bolivia. The bridge will allow people to cross the Chungara River and leave the city, as well as let those from surrounding communities gain access to the tiendas and markets...

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

Congratulations to environmental engineering Professor R. Scott Summers and his team! Continuing its commitment to improving America’s 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...

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. “People were tweeting amazing pictures and videos of damage to bridges and other infrastructure...