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A new University of Colorado Boulder framework used to screen hundreds of organic chemical compounds used in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shows that 15 may be of concern as groundwater contaminants based on their toxicity, mobility, persistence and frequency of use. Using a fast groundwater transport scenario, the team predicted...

EVEN Professor Shelly Miller has received a new award from the Mt. Sinai Medical Center, New York. Title: Application of Test Protocol for Whole-room Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation (UVGI) Surface Decontamination of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Klebsiella species and Clostridium difficile. Purpose of Project: To determine in a controlled laboratory setting,...

EVEN Professor Diane McKnight joined ‪ ‎NSF‬'s Arctic Sciences Section as program director co-managing the Arctic System Science (ARCSS) Program. Diane McKnight became a program director in Polar's ‪ Arctic ‬ Sciences section on June 15, joining Neil Swanberg in managing the Arctic System Science (ARCSS) Program . McKnight holds...

Congratulation to EVEN PhD Candidate student Leigh Gilmore who won 1st place oral presenter at the 12th Annual Rocky Mountain Section American Water Works Association Student Conference! Award: 1st place oral presenter - $300 prize Time: May 21, 2015 Place: New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, NM Other CU...

EVEN Professors Shelly Miller, Jana Milford and Michael Hannigan participated in the following long term study: The short-term association of selected components of fine particulate matter and mortality in the Denver Aerosol Sources and Health (DASH) study Sun-Young Kim, Steven J. Dutton, Lianne Sheppard, Michael P. Hannigan, Shelly L. Miller,...

Faculty, postdocs, staff and graduate students are invited to submit to an internal funding competition sponsored by the Office of The Vice Chancellor for Research. This competition is open to all CU-Boulder faculty, postdoctoral researchers and graduate students whose research or creative works generate digital data. We would like to...

Below you'll find GREEN Program preview of the Peru schedule, and you can find the full schedule here . PERU Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola | The GREEN Program Water Resource Management + Sustainable Practices Winter 2016: 10 days Jan 3 - 12, 2016 Spring 2016: 9 Days March 13...

Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace (ESJP) Conference 3-6 September 2015, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, USA Call for Contributions ( target: 1 June 2015) and Papers ( optional , 1 September 2015) The 11th annual international Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace (ESJP) Conference will be held in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, 3-6 September...

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CU-Boulder’s third annual WASH Symposium gave nearly 100 attendees an insider’s look into the development of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The event featured a keynote address by Clarissa Brocklehurst, a former chief of UNICEF’s WASH program who is currently serving on the committee to consider SDG proposals...