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Keith Molenaar, associate dean for research in the College of Engineering and Applied Science, recently visited the Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL) in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to discuss expanding the collaboration between the two universities.

Kaitlin Mattos, a PhD student in environmental engineering and the Engineering for Developing Communities program at the University of Colorado Boulder, recently received the American Water Works Association’s 2019 American Water Scholarship.

Professors Diane McKnight and Michael Gooseff work alongside a group of scientists called the McMurdo Dry Valleys Long-Term Ecological Research group (LTER), which maintains the longest continuously collected stream flow dataset in Antarctica.

Water agency representatives, consultants and manufacturers, many of whom were attendees at American Water Works Association’s Annual Conference and Exposition in Denver, were invited to campus to tour CIEST’s unique experimental capabilities, including the 400 g-ton geotechnical centrifuge and one-million-pound capacity universal testing machines. The highlight demonstration was a full-scale earthquake test performed on a pressurized water pipeline.

Professor awarded the 2019 Dr. Pankaj Parekh Research Innovation Award from the Water Research Foundation at the American Water Works Association Annual Conference in Denver in June.

The University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering invites applications for a non-tenure track Instructor position in its Construction Engineering and Management Program to begin in Spring 2020.

On June 8th 2019, Constien competed at the 2019 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Austin, TX and finished in 6th place for the steeplechase.

Professor Angela Bielefeldt will serve as the new director of the College of Engineering and Applied Science’s Engineering Plus program beginning July 1, 2019.

Professor was recently appointed by Governor Jared Polis to a third three-year term on the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission, which oversees air quality regulations for the state.

A large-scale program to deliver water filters and portable biomass-burning cookstoves to Rwandan homes reduced the prevalence of reported diarrhea and acute respiratory infection in children under 5 years old by 29% and 25%, respectively, according to new findings published today in the journal PLOS Medicine.