Mija Hubler News

CPR News recently highlighted Associate Professor Mija Hubler's innovative, bacteria-based alternative to concrete and her appearance in the documentary "Women of Carbon." Her sustainable building material is helping reduce the carbon footprint of construction.

“Women of Carbon,” featuring Associate Professor Mija Hubler, opened the Colorado Environmental Film Festival in Golden in February. The documentary highlights women reshaping construction through sustainable innovation and decarbonization.

In this 2025 edition of CU Engineering (CUE) magazine, CEAE researchers tackle pressing challenges—such as the increasing frequency and severity of hurricanes, wildfires and floods—head-on, developing innovative solutions to repair aging infrastructure and build a more resilient future.

CEAE is hosting five conferences, this summer and beyond. Please join us!

Two department projects funded by the Climate Innovation Collaboratory, an ongoing alliance between Deloitte Consulting LLP and CU Boulder, will develop tools to reduce carbon: one for optimizing data center energy storage, led by Associate Professor Kyri Baker, and one for evaluating local materials in cement, led by Associate Professor Mija Hubler.

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.

Kyri Baker, Mija Hubler and JH Song were selected for the Deloitte/University of Colorado Boulder Climate Innovation Collaboratory Research Awards for translating climate research and data into meaningful climate solutions for businesses, organizations, government agencies and communities.

CU Boulder faculty developed an eco-friendly cement that emits little to no carbon dioxide and recycles 95 percent of its water. In 2021, they commercialized it as Prometheus Materials. The company produces bio-concrete using blue-green algae, mimicking natural processes that form seashells and coral reefs.

Forbes Magazine is featuring groundbreaking research conducted by faculty members at CU Boulder in the field of eco-friendly concrete.Cement is a significant contributor to carbon emissions, responsible for about eight percent of global output.

The article, "Carbon-Negative Pilot," was published in the August issue of  Concrete International magazine. Authors include Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering researchers Yao Wang, a post doctoral research associate