Projects

Civil Engineering PhD Candidate Madeline Pernat received a 2024 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, a prestigious award that recognizes and supports outstanding students in a wide variety of science-related disciplines. Pernat is advised by Associate Professor Joseph Kasprzyk and Research Professor Edie Zagona, the director of the Center for...

April is National Autism Acceptance Month. By definition, students with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have some problems which may interfere with receptive or expressive communication. Some of these differences are very subtle and can be misinterpreted as volitional acts on the part of the student. It’s important to understand...

A team led by Environmental Engineering Professor Evan Thomas has received a $650,000 Convergence Accelerator grant from the National Science Foundation, to measure and mitigate pollution in the Cache la Poudre and Yampa Rivers in Colorado through new sensor technology, monitoring, and a voluntary carbon credits trading system with industry.

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.

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...

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,...

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.

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...