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Flow processes investigated through full-scale field tests, soil tank tests, and numerical simulations of soil-borehole thermal energy storage systems. Click image to view larger. CEAE professor John McCartney and Co-PI Adam Reed (Law) received $1.01 million from the National Science Foundation for work on "Sustainable Energy Pathways Collaborative: Pathways to...

Professor Joe Ryan CEAE professor Joseph Ryan and his research team have been awarded a $12 million grant as part of the National Science Foundation's Sustainability Research Network initiative. The team will study the social, ecological, and economic aspects of natural gas development and the protection of air and water...

Bernard Amadei Engineers Without Borders-USA, founded in 2002 by CEAE professor Bernard Amadei, will hold its 2012 Mountain Region Conference at CU-Boulder October 5-7, 2012. Read the full article here .

Architectural engineering student Alexander Pray received the Henry Adams Scholarship from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) for the 2012-2013 academic year. Alexander is a fifth-year student in the concurrent BS/MS program and plans to work in mechanical systems commissioning and recommissioning after graduating in...

A CU-Boulder team recently won a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for its proposal to develop a solar-biochar toilet for use in developing countries throughout the world. The grant is part of the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge, or RTTC, initiated by the Gates Foundation to address a...

Christina Jones Christina Jones, a civil engineering undergraduate student, spent summer 2012 working at the Panama Canal expansion project. Christina interned with CH2M HILL through the CEAE Department's IMPACT Scholar Internship Program . Visit Christina's blog to read about her experience in her own words.

John McCartney CEAE assistant professor John McCartney won the Deep Foundations Institute's 2012 Young Professor Paper Competition for his paper "Strain Distributions in Full-Scale Energy Foundations." The award will be presented at the DFI Annual Conference in Houston in October 2012.

Mark Hernandez CEAE professor Mark Hernandez has been selected to receive the 2012 HENAAC Education Award recognizing the best and brightest engineers and scientists within the Hispanic community. The award will be presented in October at the 24th annual HENAAC Conference in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.

Austin Cerny, Shelby Buescher, Mickey Chianese, Nikki Mayer, and Mike Brennecke on the completed bridge. Three civil engineering students were among a group that traveled to an isolated region of Bolivia to help construct a 50 meter long suspended cable pedestrian bridge this summer. Civil engineering students Mickey Chianese, Shelby...

CEAE professor Vijay Gupta received the 2012 Community Service Award from the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science (CUAHSI). The award was "in recognition of his outstanding vision and leadership in the development of interdisciplinary research in hydrologic science" and was presented at the consortium's third biennial...