Brooke Marten is engineering a better environment through high tech solid waste analysis.

Marten just completed her PhD in environmental engineering, focused on what happens to trash after it is carted off to the landfill – and ways to turn it into a valuable product.

U.S. News and World Report’s Best Graduate Schools rankings for 2025 are out, and the CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø Environmental Engineering graduate program is #7 among public universities.

Aerial photo of a winding stream in the mountains.
CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø leading effort to improve water quality in Rockies’ rivers

A CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø-led team has received a $650,000 grant to measure and mitigate pollution in the Cache la Poudre and Yampa Rivers in Colorado through new sensor technology, monitoring, and a voluntary carbon credits trading system with industry.

Engineers at CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø are investigating whether improving classroom air quality with air purifiers can help students miss fewer school days.

The study comes at a time when millions of students across the country are chronically absent from school, a worsening trend that could have large impacts on students’ academic performance.Ìý

Â鶹¹ÙÍø researchers are advancing water resource management in the South Caucasus through a partnership with Deloitte Consulting.