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CU Boulder students host teams from Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Wyoming and South Dakota.

Associate Professor Fernando Rosario-Ortiz has been appointed the new director of the Environmental Engineering (EVEN) Program, effective July 1.

The “RamSlayers” earned their name this week in a heavy civil competition hosted by the Colorado Contractors Association. The team of senior civil engineering majors beat out teams from Colorado State University – home of the Rams – and CSU Pueblo to take home the overall trophy and bragging rights,...

Jeff Martin (CivEngr’99) returned to campus recently to speak to Professor Angela Bielefeldt’s Introduction to Civil Engineering and Professional Issues classes about the importance of designing solutions that benefit society. Martin is the project manager for the Gross Reservoir Expansion , a $464 million Denver Water project to expand storage...

Two CEAE Research Associates are performing a study to gather background water-quality data from Union Reservoir, which will provide the City of Longmont with comparison data if contamination from hydraulic fracturing activities occurs in the future.

Professor and building systems engineering researcher John Zhai will be named a fellow by the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA) in September. He will be honored for his contributions to the field of building simulation as a researcher and educator. Zhai’s research focuses on the energy and environmental demands...

Professor Angela R. Bielefeldt was named a 2019 President’s Teaching Scholar (PTS). She is the fourth PTS from civil, environmental and architectural engineering. This award is the highest honor for teaching at the university level and recognizes Bielefeldt’s efforts to improve student learning both inside and outside the classroom. Her...

The U.S. News and World Report graduate college rankings were just released. The Environmental Engineering program ranked in the top 10 and the Civil Engineering ranked in the top 20 among public engineering graduate programs: Environmental (#8) - Civil (#14)

Assistant Professor Julie Korak was awarded the 2018 Membrane Treatment Best Paper Award from the American Water Works Association (AWWA) for her paper Nanofiltration to Improve Process Efficiency of Hexavalent Chromium Treatment Using Ion Exchange.

Professor Matthew Hallowell and PhD student Wael Alruqi recently were selected as an Editor’s Choice by the American Society of Civil Engineers for their paper, Critical Success Factors for Construction Safety: Review and Meta-Analysis of Safety Leading Indicators . Their research focused on what factors in construction correlated most strongly...