Research

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...

Broad energy and environment study led by CU Boulder ends with significant findings Published: Oct. 10, 2018 • By Josh Rhoten "A massive research and education effort on energy and environmental issues led by CU Boulder engineering faculty is ending after a five-year run with significant results relevant to Colorado’s...

Professor Lupita Montoya (left) and Aaron Lamplugh, PhD candidate (right). The Nature, Environment, Science and Technology (NEST) Studio for the Arts awarded graduate student fellowships to nine pairs of artists and scientists who worked on collaborative, cross-disciplinary projects during Summer 2018. Camila Friedman-Gerlicz, an MFA candidate in Art and Art...

Prof. Rosario is leading a new NSF RAPID project focusing on the potable water quality in Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico on the morning of September 20 th , 2017. The hurricane had catastrophic impacts on the infrastructure in Puerto...

On Tuesday, January 16, 2018, the KGNU Science Show released a new segment hosted by Shelley Schlender in which EVEN Professor Shelly Miller discussed how common consumer products often contain hazardous chemical ingredients that get released into surrounding areas. Shelly Miller teaches and conducts research regarding urban air quality and...

Shelly Miller and her research group in collaboration with Professor Noah Fierer from the Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology conducted a study of the microbiome of 12 dorm rooms on CU Boulder campus. The new publication in ES&T investigated DNA and RNA viruses circulating in the air by analyzing...

Five CU Faculty members are conducting research on 4 different projects in Antarctica! EVEN professors Dr. Diane McKnight (3 rd from the left) and Dr. Michael Gooseff (2 nd from the right) have been studying the McMurdo Dry Valleys – the largest ice-free region in Antarctica, for over 20 years...

Three years of funding, including tuition and stipend, is available to enroll in the PhD program in Environmental Studies. The PhD student will be involved in a large, interdisciplinary project funded by NSF, "Sustainable Communities & Gold Supply Chains: Integrating Responsible Engineering & Local Knowledge to Design, Implement & Evaluate...

EVEN Professor Mark Hernandez has teamed up with local startup, Aerosol Devices Inc., to advance a new sampling technology for airborne bacterial cells and fungal spores that could pose a significant health risk in indoor environments. Aerosol Devices Inc. was founded in Fort Collins by two professional women in aerosols...

Professor Michael Gooseff' s new research has recently been published in the academic journal Nature Ecology and Evoluti on . Gooseff, an associate professor in EVEN and the lead investigator for the MDV LTR project, was conducting his research in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDV). The MDV are the largest...