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Sabre Duren (EnvSt’01; MCivEngr’04; PhD’13)

Feb. 15, 2024

Sabre Duren, 2024 Alumni Engagement Medal Award recipient Engineering Alumni Awards 2024 Alumni Engagement Medal Award recipient Current Job and Employer: Freelance Educational Writer and Editor Current City: Lyons, Colorado Background Sabre Duren earned her BA, MS and PhD from the University of Colorado Boulder (CU) in Environmental Studies and...

Alex Meyer

Asteroid named for CU Boulder aerospace grad student

Feb. 15, 2024

PhD student played key role on NASA’s DART Mission Alex Meyer is an astrodynamics expert, engineer, PhD student, and now, a part of the night sky. The International Astronomical Union has officially named an asteroid after him. Asteroid 2000 ND17 is now (33974) Alexmeyer. “It’s pretty cool and quite an...

Antonio M. Caravaca Aguirre

Antonio M. Caravaca Aguirre (MElEngr’13; PhD’16)

Feb. 14, 2024

Antonio M. Caravaca Aguirre , 2024 Recent Alumni Award recipient Engineering Alumni Awards 2024 Recent Alumni Award recipient Antonio M. Caravaca Aguirre (MElEngr’13; PhD’16) is a distinguished leader in the field of optical wavefront shaping. He serves as vice president of engineering at Modendo, a pioneering startup dedicated to developing...

Sanjeev G. Redkar

Sanjeev G. Redkar (PhDChemEngr'94)

Feb. 14, 2024

Sanjeev Redkar, 2024 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award recipient Engineering Alumni Awards 2024 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award recipient Sanjeev G. Redkar (PhDChemEngr'94) is the president, executive director and co-founder of Apollomics Inc., an oncology-focused company developing therapeutics for difficult-to-treat cancers harnessing the immune system and targeting specific molecular pathways. Redkar has...

Diana Manning

Diana Manning (MechEngr'84)

Feb. 14, 2024

Diana Manning, 2024 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award recipient Engineering Alumni Awards 2024 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award recipient Diana Manning (MechEngr'84) received her degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1984 and has used that knowledge to obtain over 35 years of experience working primarily in the...

Michael D. Fricklas

Michael D. Fricklas (ElEngr'81)

Feb. 14, 2024

Michael D. Fricklas, 2024 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award recipient Engineering Alumni Awards 2024 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award recipient Michael D. Fricklas (ElEngr'81) became chief legal officer and secretary of Advance in April 2018. From 1993 to 2017, he was one of the top executives at Viacom, for 19 years as...

Daryl Bahls

Daryl Bahls (AeroEngr'77)

Feb. 14, 2024

Daryl Bahls, 2024 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award recipient Engineering Alumni Awards 2024 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award recipient In 2014, Daryl Bahls (AeroEngr'77) retired from The Boeing Company as a senior space systems engineer and associate technical fellow. He spent his 37-year career with Boeing and Martin Marietta Denver Aerospace as...

Joseph Kaspryzk and Edith Zagona of the Center for Advanced Decision Support for Water and Environmental Systems (CADSWES), pose in front of colorful graphics depictingtheir research.

Inside the race to grasp the fate of the Colorado River

Feb. 14, 2024

Professors Edith Zagona and Joseph Kasprzyk were interviewed by the Washington Post for an article which explores how the federal government is utilizing innovative, web-based tools developed by academics at CU Boulder to forecast the river’s future flows.

Side-by-side view of two kinds of yellow foam, one with a traditional design and the other with the team's new "honeycomb" design

New kinds of padding could make football gear, bike helmets safer than ever

Feb. 5, 2024

In recent research, engineers at the University of Colorado of Boulder and Sandia National Laboratories have developed a new design for padding that can withstand big impacts. The team’s innovations, which can be printed on commercially available 3D printers, could one day wind up in everything from shipping crates to football pads—anything that helps to protect fragile objects, or bodies, from the bumps of life.

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CU Boulder part of $160M NSF-funded effort to promote climate resilience

Feb. 1, 2024

The National Science Foundation today announced the Colorado-Wyoming Climate Resilience Engine (CO-WY Engine) as a recipient of its inaugural Regional Innovation Engines program.

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