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CEAE Spring 2023 Recognition Ceremony

Graduating seniors, join us to celebrate your accomplishments with fellow students, faculty, staff, family and friends!

 

Professor Mark Hernandez and doctoral graduate Marina Nieto-Caballero stand inside a bioaerosol chamber in the Environmental Engineering disinfection laboratory at the Sustainability, Energy and Environment Complex (SEEC).
Tend to get sick when the air is dry? New research helps explain why

Recent research from CU Boulder may have finally revealed why humans tend to get sick from airborne viral diseases more often in drier environments.

Published in December in PNAS-Nexus, the study, of which Professor Mark Hernandez, S. J. Archuleta Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering was the lead author, found that airborne particles carrying a mammalian coronavirus closely related to the virus which causes COVID-19 remain infectious for twice as long in drier air.

 

Wil Srubar holds a sample cube of concrete that contains biogenic limestone produced by calcifying macro- and microalgae.
Cities of the future may be built with algae-grown limestone

Global cement production accounts for 7% of annual greenhouse gas emissions in large part through the burning of quarried limestone.

Now, a CU Boulder-led research team has figured out a way to make cement production carbon neutral—and even carbon negative—by pulling carbon dioxide out of the air with the help of microalgae. 

 

Engineers survey the foundations of a home burned in the Marshall Fire.
Engineers deploy drones to survey Marshall Fire, gather lessons for future disasters

Assistant Research Professor Brad Wham is part of a team surveying damage from the Marshall Fire. The effort hopes to better understand the disaster from a uniquely engineering perspective.

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Evan Thomas stands next to one of his filtration devices in Africa

Capitalism caused climate change. Can capitalism also solve it?

Professor Evan Thomas will discuss CU Boulder’s work to bring climate finance solutions to water quality challenges in the American West and East Africa at TedXCU on April 7 in Macky Auditorium. Read more
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Your stove is the first appliance to get a battery, but not the last

In this Washington Post article, Assistant Professor Kyri Baker says appliances with batteries will be a "game changer," able to stash energy at home for when it's needed while building the grid’s capacity to absorb clean, excess energy. Read more
Gregor Henze

9NEWS: Study underway to look at feasibility of converting office buildings into housing, city says

Professor Gregor Henze, who has spent the last 15 years focusing on sustainable building design, sees the general types of projects as "doable" but not without some challenges, primarily when it comes to retrofitting the buildings for heating and cooling. Read more
CEAE students in hard hats at Gross Reservoir site.

CVEN seniors tackle a portion of the Gross Reservoir Expansion Project

As part of their capstone project, seniors in CU Boulder's civil engineering program are contributing to the design of the expansion of Denver Water’s Gross Reservoir Expansion Project, which involves raising the height of Gross Dam by 131 feet. The renovated dam will nearly triple the reservoir’s water storage capacity and create a more reliable water system for 1.5 million people in the Denver metro area. Read more
Professor Mark Hernandez and doctoral graduate Marina Nieto-Caballero stand inside a bioaerosol chamber in the Environmental Engineering disinfection laboratory at the Sustainability, Energy and Environment Complex (SEEC)

Tend to get sick when the air is dry? New research helps explain why

Mark Hernandez, S. J. Archuleta Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and senior author of recent research published in PNAS-Nexus, found that airborne particles carrying a mammalian coronavirus closely related to the virus which causes COVID-19 remain infectious for twice as long in drier air. Read more
Mija Hubler delivering her TED-style talk

Mija Hubler, Research & Innovation Community Talk: The Life Cycle of Construction Materials

In this talk, Associate Professor Mija Hubler (Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering; Materials Science and Engineering) discusses how construction materials have been understood historically and how her research is helping reimagine materials and processes with sustainability in mind. Read more
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