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Due to unforseen circumstances, Dana will be unable to join us tonight. Please stay tuned for a rescheduled event. Join us! Thursday, January 26, 2017 from 5:15pm to 6:15pm Discovery Learning Center, Room 1B70 (the Bechtel Collaboratory) Global Competence: A Framework for Navigating our Changing World Join us for the...

CU-Boulder has partnered with the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre (RCRCCC) to place graduate students in locations in eastern and southern Africa each summer. This collaborative program targets improvements in environmental communication and adaptation decision-making as well as disaster prevention and preparedness in the humanitarian sector. See the announcement...

Our 2nd Fall Seminar is taking place on Wednesday, Oct 26th in the DLC Collaboratory from 6:15 - 7:15 pm. Food provided! The event will feature Alan Krause, President of MWH Global, an ENR Top 20 Design Firm. He will be speaking about Engineering Projects in Developing Countries - Case...

AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships (STPF) provide opportunities to outstanding scientists and engineers to learn first-hand about policymaking while contributing their knowledge and analytical skills to the federal policymaking process. Fellows serve yearlong assignments in the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the federal government in Washington. Learn more...

Project Lead: Amy Javernick-Will Given the increasing number and impact of disasters, research is needed to determine how to enable community recovery and foster resiliency. Associate Professor Amy Javernick-Will and her students focus on this increasingly vital aspect of community development. Current Projects: Building Capacity for Safer Shelter: Leveraging Local...

Incentivizing Impact in Environmental Health Edited by Evan Thomas This volume highlights some of the challenges in delivering effective environmental health interventions, and presents examples of emergent theories and case studies that can help close the gap between intent and impact. These include impact crediting systems, objective evidence gathering tools,...

Project Lead: Bernard Amadei According to the Systems Dynamics Society*, system dynamics is a computer-aided approach to policy analysis and design. It applies to dynamic problems arising in complex social, managerial, economic, or ecological systems — literally any dynamic systems characterized by interdependence, mutual interaction, information feedback, and circular causality...

Project Lead: Karl Linden UV light is a safe and effective means to treat water. High energy photons inactivate pathogens by attacking an organisms nucleic acids (DNA and RNA), denaturing them extensively such that the pathogen can not replicate or cause an infection, and dies off. UV wavelengths between 200...

The Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) Trial is led by Emory University with a consortium of university, research and implementing partners, with funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Gates Foundation. The overall aims of the HAPIN study are (1) using an intent-to-treat analysis, determine the effect...

Mortenson Center affiliated faculty conduct fundamental and applied research and design on appropriate technologies that are low cost, easy to use, and deliverable in most settings; on development projects; and on developing community issues. NSF International Research Experience for Students (2010-2013) Project Description: Identify key factors that lead to the...