Research

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...

EVEN Professor Shelly Miller has recently been published for her new study demonstrating a large-scale 'germ trap' solution for hospitals during a surge of airborne infectious patients. Under normal hospital conditions, airborne pathogens can escape patients’ rooms and float around hallways, infecting staff and patients. Epidemics of airborne illnesses, therefore,...

Call for Abstracts, AGU 2017: H133: Water and Society: Advances in Decision Support for Climate Adaptation in Environmental Systems Prof. Joseph Kasprzyk (CU Boulder) and Prof. Jon Herman (UC Davis) are seeking submissions to their session at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2017 meeting in New Orleans, LA. This is...

Dr. Emily Gill's research with EVEN Prof. Rajagopalan Balaji on understanding the Indian Monsoon variability over 10,000 years was featured in today’s Times of India. Lead researcher Emily C Gill from the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado at Boulder, stated that the study —...

National Science Foundation: Non-Academic Research Internships for Graduate Students (INTERN) Supplemental Funding Graduate students have the potential to make important contributions in careers outside academia: in organizations ranging from startups to large corporations; government agencies, and non-profit organizations. It is therefore important that graduate students supported by NSF grants be...

Powell Hinson, a sophomore EVEN student and new president of SEVEN (Society of Environmental Engineering), is teaming up with EEF to teach the importance of properly disposing hazardous waste. Hinson is working alongside Ralph Bogle, a Chemical Treatment Specialist, to illustrate the importance of hazardous waste disposal to students -...

The DeRISK January Drinking Water Webinar is Thursday January 19th 2017 at 9 am MST. It will feature the research presentations of three graduate students affiliated with a drinking water center (see attached abstracts): Student Name Affiliation Research Topic Email Julie Bliss Mullen WINSSS Modeling the Relationship of Oxidation Reduction...

The University of Colorado Boulder has been selected by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to lead a $15.3 million effort to better understand how to improve the sustainability of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions in the developing world. Globally, more than 2.4 billion people lack access to...