Fellowships

The Alumni Engagement Medal (AEM) was established for college academic degree programs and the BOLD Center to recognize highly engaged alumni who impact their areas through volunteerism and philanthropic support.

Every February, we celebrate Black History Month by recognizing the contributions and sacrifices of our Black and African American community. Before there was a month, there was “Negro History Week,” established in 1926 by U.S. historian Carter G. Woodson who became known as the “father of Black History.” Woodson envisioned...

Professors Edith Zagona and Joseph Kasprzyk were interviewed by the Washington Post for an article which explores how the federal government is utilizing innovative, web-based tools developed by academics at CU Boulder to forecast the river’s future flows.

Spring Semester Updates Welcome to the spring 2024 semester! Every two weeks, the CEAE JEDI Committee sends this brief email (designed to be read in one minute or less) to the department’s students, staff, research faculty, and faculty on DEI topics. Today’s email is meant to share some reminders and...

Professor Evan Thomas is leading a CEAE team that along with others has won a $160 million, 10-year NSF Colorado-Wyoming Climate Resilience Engine (CO-WY Engine) in the inaugural Regional Innovation Engines program at NSF. This program is for development and commercialization of climate-resilient and sustainable technologies that will help communities across the region and the country monitor, mitigate and adapt to climate impacts.

“A great scientist. A beloved colleague. A dear friend.” These are just a few of the heartfelt sentiments that were shared in emails from across the globe in remembrance of structural engineering Professor Emeritus Kaspar Willam. Willam passed away on Jan. 7 in his home country of Austria. He was 83 years old.

WHISPER Energy, a startup aiming to bring to market a wireless sensor platform, will be presented at the University of Colorado Boulder's 2024 Embark Showcase on Jan. 24. Developed by a multi-institutional team under the leadership of Professor Gregor Henze, the innovative technology seeks to optimize energy consumption in both residential and commercial settings by intelligently adjusting usage based on detecting human presence.

Jorge "Santi" Santiago Ramírez Núñez, a second-year PhD student advised by Associate Professor Aditi Bhaskar, was selected for the W. Mark Harty Memorial Engineering Fellowship Fund. The fund awards fellowships to graduate students enrolled in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering with a focus on water resources.

Some architectural engineering text books were too general. Some were overly specific. However, Professor John Zhai has struck the perfect balance with his book, earning him the College of Engineering and Applied Science Textbook Recognition Award for "Energy Efficient Buildings: Fundamentals of Building Science and Thermal Systems."

Teaching Professor Matt Morris asked his students to help pour concrete. Students came. Two came back again. And again. For more than a year.