http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2012/02/09/cu-boulder-professor-elected-national-academy-engineering Diane McKnight, professor of civil, environmental and architectural engineering and a fellow of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado Boulder, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2012/01/25/cu-boulder-led-team-assess-decline-arctic-sea-ice-alaskas-beaufort-sea A national research team led by the University of Colorado Boulder is embarking on a two-year, multi-pronged effort to better understand the impacts of environmental factors associated with the continuing decline of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2012/01/17/deepwater-horizon-lessons-are-subject-jan-26-lecture-cu-boulder The University of Colorado Boulder will host a free public lecture this month illuminating the lessons learned from the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion that killed 11 workers and resulted in the largest accidental oil spill in U.S. history.