Faculty News

Professor Dr. Angela R. Bielefeldt was named a 2019 President’s Teaching Scholar (PTS). The award is the highest honor for teaching at the university level and recognizes Dr. Bielefeldt’s efforts to improve student learning both inside and outside the classroom.

Assistant Professor Julie Korak was awarded the 2018 Membrane Treatment Best Paper Award from the American Water Works Association ( AWWA ) for her paper Nanofiltration to Improve Process Efficiency of Hexavalent Chromium Treatment Using Ion Exchange . Korak researched methods to concentrate the brine generated from water treatment and...

Many people worry about outdoor air pollution, especially on days where smog hangs in a brown cloud over a city. Few, however, consider the air quality in their own home. EVEN Assistant Professor Dr. Marina Vance recently spoke at the American Association of the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting...

CEAE Professor Dr. John Crimaldi is the lead PI for the NSF’s Odor Navigation Project. The project is aiming to understand the behavior of odor plumes and their relation with animals’ brains in order to develop technology that can navigate based on odors. Dr. Crimaldi is using his lab to...

EVEN Faculty Professor Amy Javernick-Will and Professor Sherri Cook alongside CVEN PhD Candidate Allie Davis have recently been published in the journal Science of the Total Environment. This new publication titled “The use of qualitative comparative analysis to identify pathways to successful and failed sanitation systems” highlights the systematic misunderstanding...

A recent article published in Forbes discusses how researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder are teaming up with tech giant IBM, nonprofit organization The Freshwater Trust (TFT), and sensor provider SweetSense Inc. to pilot blockchain and satellite-connected sensor solutions to track groundwater usage in California.

“Homes have never been considered an important source of outdoor air pollution and the moment is right to start exploring that,” said EVEN Faculty Marina Vance.

The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) published a report on the educational and career pathways of engineers in the United States. CEAE Associate Professor Amy Javernick-Will, is a committee member of the NAE panel on the engineering education to workforce continuum and contributed to this report.

CEAE Department Professors Sherri Cook and Amy Javernick-Will published the research they conducted with PhD student Allie Davis on the effectiveness of sanitation systems to meet user priorities. They studied the factors affecting sanitation acceptance in communities and considered methods to improve usage. They identified that high rates of system...

Professor Shelly Miller newest outreach research project is on the health, wellbeing, air and noise pollution and traffic in the Elyria-Swansea community, during the C70 construction project. Check out the Website