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Professor Keith Molenaar has been awarded the 2021 Peurifoy Construction Research Award by the American Society of Civil Engineers Construction Institute (ASCE-CI) Construction Research Council.

ASCE has honored Kimberly Pugel as a 2021 New Face of Civil Engineering. Pugel’s work combines environmental engineering, planning, policymaking, and a heavy dose of communication skills, particularly as it relates to facilitating communication between stakeholders and decision-makers.

Nancy Clanton is a pioneer in the illumination engineering field. A 1975 CU Boulder graduate in architectural engineering and a registered professional engineer, she is the founder and CEO of Clanton & Associates, a prominent lighting design firm that regularly employs University of Colorado graduates and interns.

Paul Brinkman graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1996 with a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering. In 2005, he co-founded Brinkman Partners, an integrated real estate company, with his brother, Kevin, and together they led the Fort Collins-based commercial development, real estate and construction company to what it is today – a highly respected company with more than 150 employees and well over $250 million in annual revenue.

Professor Mark Hernandez will give an overview of the modern methods for determining the identity, distribution, and abundance of the airborne microbes that we encounter indoors and the persistence of airborne viruses such as COVID-19 at noon on Feb. 2 via Zoom as part of a campus webinar series. Pre-registration...

Since the summer, Professor Mark Hernandez and his team have been working in the Denver district’s classrooms to install a new generation of high-efficiency air filters.

The World Bank estimates that nearly a billion people across the globe lack access to an all-season road within two kilometers of their home. It’s a problem the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering and their collaborators are working to better quantify and solve.

Heather Doty (Mus'00, BSMSCivEngr'01, MBA'10) credits the Society of Women Engineers with helping her find her community. Doty will serve as national SWE president through June 2021.

The University of Colorado Boulder has partnered with Kiewit, one of the nation’s largest construction and engineering organizations, to launch the Kiewit Design-Build Program.

Frost quakes are not particularly rare, but they are harder to observe than traditional earthquakes. Professor Roseanna Neupauer was part of a recent effort to develop new models with the Oulu, Finland, 2016 quake data, the results of which are discussed in a new paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research.