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PhD candidate Jackson Webster samples soil after a prescribed burn in the San Juan Mountains east of Silverton, Colorado Jackson Webster, a PhD student in civil, environmental, and architectural engineering, has been awarded a George Melendez Wright Climate Change Fellowship in the amount of $20,000 from the National Park Service...

Master’s student Erik Jensen and undergraduate William McCloy, both students in the civil engineering department, placed first in this year’s GeoPrediction competition. The competition was to predict the axial capacity of a driven pipe pile installed off the coast of New Orleans, LA. Jensen and McCloy placed first out of...

University of Colorado Arthur J. Boase Lecture Friday April 15, 2011, 3:00 p.m. Benson Earth Sciences Building, Auditorium Room 180 2200 Colorado Ave, Boulder, CO 80309 Building, Teaching, Learning, and Rebuilding a Leadership Culture By Joseph A. Ahearn Senior Executive CH2MHill (Retired) Major General US Air Force (Retired) Abstract: Today’s...

The department is pleased to announce that the Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering Excellence Award for Graduate Fellowship has been renamed in honor of Andrew Gelston Graham. The fellowship provides support to outstanding MS and PhD students in the department, including tuition and stipends. Andrew was an outstanding student in...

The research of Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) Research Scientist Thomas Phillips, CEAE Professor Harihar Rajaram, and CIRES Director Konrad Steffen was recently published in Geophysical Research Letters and highlighted on the CU News Center website. Their study shows that water flowing through ice sheets can increase...

CEAE Professor Dr. Karl Linden and his students Christie Chatterley and David Sparkman continued their work in water sustainability development and sanitation projects in Peru during the summer of 2010. The projects partner CU-Boulder faculty and students with two Peruvian universities, local organizations, and disadvantaged communities in Peru. Research trips...

Newly detected rising sea levels in parts of the Indian Ocean, including the coastlines of the Bay of Bengal, the Arabian Sea, Sri Lanka, Sumatra and Java, appear to be at least partly a result of human-induced increases of atmospheric greenhouse gases, says a study led by the University of...

Carrie “C.J.” McClelland, a Ph.D. candidate in our Environmental Engineering program, was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in 2007. The fellowship provides up to three years of funding for research-focused graduate degrees in science, engineering, and mathematics fields. C.J. is working with Prof. Karl Linden on forecasting...

Kendra Colyar, a M.S. candidate in our Environmental Engineering program, was awarded a fellowship for membrane technology by the National Water Research Institute and the American Membrane Technology Association. The fellowship provides two years of funding at $10,000 per year for "solving water supply and quality issues through the widespread...

Renewable Energy: A Reality Check in Rural China July 1, 2009: Young engineer takes on a global challenge: Clean and sustainable energy, one village at a time NSF Article link Graduate student Abby Watrous traveled through rural provinces in China encouraging villagers to burn alternatives to non-renewable lumps of coal...