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Near Lampuuk Beach in Banda Aceh, homes built for 2004 tsunami survivors now sit abandoned. Ilham Siddiq, a tsunami survivor and PhD student in civil systems engineering, cites trauma and environmental challenges as key issues in rebuilding efforts.
CEAE seniors Brooklyn Lash and Carl Fischer won the 2024 Clarence L. Eckel Award, the department's top undergraduate honor.
CU Boulder's CIEST pioneered testing standards for repairing inaccessible, leaking urban pipelines buried beneath buildings and roads.
Chaya Farley, an architectural engineering student, was awarded the College of Engineering & Applied Science Perseverance Award.
Brooklyn Lash, a civil engineering major, received two college honors: the Community Impact Award
and the Research Award.
Three CEAE professors, Mark Hernandez, Gregor Henze and Tony Straub, won $125,000 each in CU Boulder's Lab Venture Challenge.
Prometheus Materials, a zero-carbon building materials company spun out of the labs of Wil Srubar, Mija Hubler and Sherri Cook, along with partner groups will receive $10 million from the DOE to study the removal of carbon dioxide from cement.
A CEAE student team, mentored by Matt Morris, placed second in the national Design-Build Institute student competition in Dallas.
Professor Abbie Liel and her collaborator Susan Ostermann at Notre Dame are exploring solutions for building homes that can withstand disasters like hurricanes and fires.
In a new paper, drawing on accounts from nearly three dozen previously incarcerated people, CU Boulder researchers reveal a disturbing story of how prisons and jails in Colorado have failed to provide humane protections from growing environmental hazards brought on by climate change.