Seven CU Boulder research teams have been selected to receive grants for the development of commercially-promising technologies. A total of 21 applications were reviewed by a panel of external judges made up of entrepreneurs, investors, business executives and intellectual property attorneys from around the country. Jason Ren's team is one of them and received the grand for the following project:
Direct energy and resource recovery from carbon dioxide and wastewater (, Civil Engineering): The Ren lab will work with HySummit—a company dedicated to producing carbon-negative water, hydrogen and high-value chemicals—to develop scalable systems to convert beverage wastewater and CO2 into valuable chemicals, such as carbonate and hydrogen.