CU Engineering Weekly Digest - Dec. 17, 2022

Tuesday, Jan. 17. 10-11 a.m., Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotech Building East Terrace Grill
The Postdoctoral Association of Colorado Boulder (PAC Boulder) invites researchers to mingle over coffee, tea and cookies at this open session.

The CU Boulder Solar Decathlon team and Flatirons Habitat for Humanity are looking for volunteers throughout spring 2023 to help build a model single-family house as part of Boulder’s Ponderosa Stabilization Program.

If you're looking for some great stocking stuffers this holiday season, check out gift ideas from student and faculty-run companies that have gone through the CU Boulder startup accelerator program, Catalyze CU. From maker kits to organic foods, body products and more, you can find unique ideas for everyone on your list while supporting CU entrepreneurs.

The Alumni Engagement team would like to thank the following college faculty and staff members for supporting and participating in our alumni events this past semester. If you are interersted in learning more about the college’s alumni engagement efforts or partnering with the team, contact them at engalumni@colorado.edu.

• Kyri Baker
• Shideh Dashti
• Bill Doe
• Amy Javernick-Will
• Abbie Liel
• Nathan McNeill
• Keith Molenaar
• Claire Monteleoni
• Hanspeter Schaub
• Bobby Schnabel
• Ben Weihrauch
• Gregory Whiting

• ­­Iain Boyd, Robyn Macdonald and Timothy Minton of Smead Aerospace received a three-year Office of Naval Research award for $4.4 million for “Development of Validated Hypersonic Plasma Kinetics Models Including Atomic Excitation.”
• Scott Diddams of electrical, computer and energy engineering received a three-year Air Force Office of Scientific Research award for $900,000 for “Quantum control and precision measurement of molecular vibrational states.”
• Diddams also received a four-year Air Force Office of Scientific Research award for $1.06 million for “Ultraviolet frequency combs and attosecond nonlinear optics with few-cycle pulses.”
• Amanda McKenzie of the Student Support and Advising Services team was selected as one of the 2022 Women Who Make a Difference by the Center for Inclusion and Social Change.  
• Wyatt Shields of chemical and biological engineering and Ivana Yang from CU Anschutz received a five-year National Institute of General Medical Sciences/NIH/DHHS award with an anticipated funding amount of $1.7 million for “Adoptive Macrophage Transfers for Nanoparticle Delivery.”
• Anthony Straub of civil, environmental and architectural engineering and the Materials Science and Engineering Program received a two-year National Science Foundation award for $500,000 for “GOALI: Integrated Oxidation Vapor-gap Reverse Osmosis Systems for Water Reuse.”

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• New study highlights need for more research on the tradeoff between germicidal UV disinfection and indoor air pollutant formation
• Area Director of undergraduate advising Debbie Yeh wins chancellor’s Employee of the Year award

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