Abbie Liel

Women’s History Month: A Conversation With Professor Abbie Liel

March 26, 2024

Aditi Bhaskar with the Flatirons blurred in the background.

CU Boulder grant tackles sustainable alternatives for urban lawn irrigation

March 22, 2024

Associate Professor Aditi Bhaskar, from CU Boulder’s Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, and Assistant Professor Isabella Oleksy, of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, received a $296,000 grant from the Colorado Water Board to investigate ground cover options that could replace turfgrass.

Imposter Syndrome in Academia | Celebration of Ramadan — March 13, 2024

March 13, 2024

Happy Ramadan: This year, Ramadan is from March 10 - April 9 with Eid-al-Fitr taking place on April 10 . We are re-sharing correspondence sent to our faculty and staff earlier this week (below). Imposter Syndrome Have you ever felt like you’re not good enough for academia? Do you ever...

Belonging or Mattering? — Feb. 28, 2024

Feb. 28, 2024

What is the difference between belonging and mattering? And how can this inform our work around DEI efforts? In the 2023 book Academic Belonging in Higher Education , authors Cook-Sather, Felten, Stewart & Weston write, “The rhetoric of belonging can be alienating to students, particularly students with historically marginalized identities,...

Briana Santa Ana

Briana Santa Ana: 2024 Alumni Engagement Medal Award recipient

Feb. 19, 2024

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.

How did Black History Month come to be? — Feb. 14, 2024

Feb. 19, 2024

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...

Joseph Kaspryzk and Edith Zagona in front of a wall of colorful graphics.

Washington Post: Inside the race to grasp the fate of the Colorado River

Feb. 14, 2024

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 — Feb. 1, 2024

Feb. 1, 2024

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...

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

CEAE and other teams awarded $160M NSF-funded effort to promote climate resilience

Feb. 1, 2024

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.

Kaspar Willam, Kurt Gerstle, Stein Sture and JoAnn Silverstein rest on top of Mount Audubon, in Colorado in Sept., 1984.

Remembering Kaspar Willam (1940-2024)

Jan. 26, 2024

“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.

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