Faculty News

Korak’s research interests are broadly focused on water treatment engineering, spanning municipal drinking water, water reuse and industrial water treatment. A licensed professional engineer in Colorado, she earned her PhD in civil and environmental engineering in 2014 before heading off to work in the Water Treatment Group at the Bureau of Reclamation in Denver.

Professor Shelly Miller and Jana Milford have each authored a chapter in the new textbook Handbook of Environmental Engineering which was published in August of this year. This textbook offers a comprehensive guide to environmental engineers who desire to contribute to mitigating problems, such as flooding, caused by extreme weather...

Dr. Mark Hernandez won a $117,669 grant from CU’s Technology Transfer Office (TTO) as part of the first annual Lab Venture Challenge (LVC). He was chosen, along with six other winners, from a pool of fourteen finalists representing the physical sciences and biosciences. Dr. Hernandez was recognized for the admixture he developed that helps mitigate the effects of microbially induced concrete corrosion (MICC).

EVEN Professor Ben Livneh recently co-authored a chapter in the U.S. Global Change Research Program, Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) which summarizes the impacts of climate change on the United States, now and in the future, Chapter 22: Northern Great Plains . NCA4: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United...

Professor Shelly Miller co-authored a new publication, which can be found in volume 169 in the Environmental Research Journal and is titled “ Relationships between home ventilation rates and respiratory health in the Colorado Home Energy Efficiency and Respiratory Health (CHEER) study. ” This publication discusses her evaluation of the...

See below, EVEN Professor Sherri Cook new publications: 1. Leow, S.; Shoener, B.D.; Li, Y.; Debellis, J.L.; Markham, J.; Davis, R.; Laurens, L.M.L.; Pienkos, P.T.; Cook, S.M.; Strathmann, T.J.; Guest, J.S. A Unified Modeling Framework to Advance Biofuel Production from Microalgae . Environmental Science & Technology (2018), 52 (22), 13591–13599...

The Research & Innovation Seed Grant program—designed to stimulate new areas of research and creative work on the University of Colorado Boulder campus—is accepting proposals through Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019. This grant support projects that take investigators in creative, and sometimes high-risk, high-reward directions including team development proposals for future...