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USAID’s Sustainable WASH Systems Learning Partnership will host a five-day virtual event that will present evidence and lessons around strengthening water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) systems to sustain services through systems understanding and engagement, professionalized maintenance, and collective action. Participants will benefit from five years of research and evidence gathered...

PhD student Briar Goldwyn, Dr. Amy Javernick-Will, and Dr. Abbie Liel have published a technical paper in ASCE's Natural Hazard Review titled "Dilemma of the Tropics: Changes to Housing Safety Perceptions, Preferences, and Priorities in Multihazard Environments".

The bill entitled "Emerging Technologies for Water Management", signed by Colorado Governor Jared Polis, directs our team at the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering and the Colorado Water Institute at Colorado State University to work together to identify and test new technologies for monitoring, management, conservation, and allocation of surface...

The role of engineers in contributing to global poverty reduction and in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals is evolving. Typically, the engineer’s role in addressing these challenges has been confined to community-, regional-, or national-scale service interventions and technology design and development. However, after fifty years of such approaches, over...

Isolation caused by lack of transportation infrastructure affects almost every facet of life for the rural poor. Without adequate transportation access, families cannot access schools, health care, employment, or local markets to sell and buy goods. The World Bank estimates that nearly a billion people worldwide lack access to an...

Dr. Sherri Cook has been honored by the National Science Foundation with a CAREER Award, a five-year, $510,000 grant to study water treatment technologies and build models to help local governments and water operators improve their infrastructure and water quality.

In the latest episode of Buff Innovator Insights, a weekly podcast from the Research & Innovation Office (RIO), Dr. Evan Thomas shares how his family’s interests in journalism, engineering and entrepreneurship, as well as his experiences with Engineering Without Borders, inspired him to tackle global poverty through his work and...

On March 11th 2020, the Mortenson Center hosted the third annual Global Engineering Awards, recognizing two professionals and one student whose work aligns with the Mortenson Center’s mission and vision. These awards seek to highlight the work of individuals who contribute to the field of global engineering. This encompasses not...

A new project led by CU Boulder Assistant Professor Kyri Baker will evaluate how adopting electric vehicles may impact the condition of transportation infrastructure and cause higher disparities in communities. Electric vehicles do not contribute to gasoline sales taxes, which support road maintenance and electric vehicles currently require a significant...

Anna Libey, a PhD student in environmental engineering at CU Boulder, is the lead author on a new paper that compares utilities around the world and advocates for more subsidization in utility operations to provide clean water.