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Professor R. Scott Summers was awarded the 2020 Charles R. O’Melia Distinguished Educator Award by the Association of Environmental Engineering & Science Professors (AEESP).

PhD student Mikaela DeRousseau has received a 2020 Summer Fellowship from the CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø Graduate School. DeRousseau is in her fourth year at CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø with a focus on civil systems, and expects to graduate in August. Her advisors are Joseph Kasprzyk and Wil Srubar.

Environmental engineering major Keani Willebrand has earned a prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

PhD candidate Matthew Bentley was recently recognized as the top student presenter at the Emerging Contaminants Summit 2020. In addition, Bentley was awarded an honorable mention for the Figueroa Family Fellowship, which recognizes students who demonstrate a commitment to the achievement of a diverse student body.

A team of four environmental engineering undergraduates has undertaken a project to help improve the health of people in Rwanda who use polluting stoves.

Associate Professor Mija Hubler was awarded the Colonnetti Medal by the International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures (RILEM, from the name in French) for her outstanding scientific contribution to the field of construction materials and structures. Hubler’s research covers long-term creep and shrinkage of...

The College of Engineering and Applied Science moved up three places in this year’s U.S. News and World Reports Best Graduate Schools rankings, coming in at No. 14 among public institutions and No. 27 overall.

Unsafe drinking water and household air pollution are major causes of illness and death around the world Associate Professor Evan Thomas writes in The Conversation.

A team from CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø, led by Assistant Professor Kyri Baker, has placed in the top 10 of the ARPA-E Grid Optimization (GO) Competition. The team developed a lightweight optimization algorithm that could optimize power generation settings across large power networks while adhering to physical grid constraints. For being one of the top performers in the competition, the team will receive a $400,000 award.

A CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø and Millennium Water Alliance-led program committed to ending humanitarian drought emergencies in the Horn of Africa has been named one of the Top 100 in the prestigious John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation 100&Change competition, and remains in the running for the competition’s award of a single $100 million grant.