Research
- 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.
- 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.
- As water utilities around the country race to identify and replace lead service lines, Assistant Professor Julie Korak reflects on new rules and how individuals can protect themselves from lead in water.
- "We will see more washouts of bridges from high-water events," Paul Chinowsky, a professor of civil engineering, told DailyMail.com. "And you're going to start seeing almost an epidemic of emergency bridge repairs to prevent catastrophic failures."
- Anthony Straub is making major advances in water purification technology for industry and human consumption on Earth and in space, with his work on a nanotechnology membrane process taking a major step toward commercialization, thanks to a new NASA grant.
- 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 study published on July 31 in the journal Earth’s Future, scientists, including CU Boulder researchers, revealed how heat waves, especially those occurring in Antarctica’s cold seasons, may impact the animals living there.
- Welcome to the Center for Infrastructure, Energy, and Space Testing (CIEST) at CU Boulder, an experimental facility offering geotechnical centrifuges, structural dynamics and materials testing and research for business, government, and academic
- A University of Colorado Boulder team is part of a major international effort to sample surfaces and the air on mass transit vehicles. Two major international journals have published articles on the research, which included teams from CU Boulder