Research

CEAE's Yida Zhang won an NSF CAREER award to study how soil grain breakage under pressure could affect the stability of taller dams.

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

Building Systems Professor Moncef Krarti emphasizes the importance of adapting "smart" technologies to people's needs for increased acceptance and usage.

CEAE Professor Balaji Rajagopalan, raised without running water in India, now studies monsoon variability as a Fulbright-Kalam Climate Fellow.

More than 50 percent of the largest lakes in the world are losing water, according to a groundbreaking new assessment published today in Science.  The article was coauthored by Professor Balaji Rajagopalan and Associate Professor Ben Livneh, both from CU Boulder's Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering. Fangfang Yao, a CIRES visiting scholar, was the lead author.

CEAE's Brad Wham joined a Learning From Earthquakes team assessing lifeline system damage after Turkey's February 2023 earthquake.

CEAE researcher Ben Ma led a study confirming the safety of a new portable UV disinfection device for use in public spaces.

Streamflow is increasing in Alaskan rivers during both spring and fall seasons, primarily due to increasing air temperatures over the past 60 years, according to new CU Boulder-led research. Dylan Blaskey, a doctoral student in civil engineering, is the lead author on the study.

Mark Hernandez, S. J. Archuleta Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and senior author of recent research published in PNAS-Nexus, found that airborne particles carrying a mammalian coronavirus closely related to the virus which causes COVID-19 remain infectious for twice as long in drier air.