Articles by College of Engineering and Applied Science

When gas leaks into and contaminates a household water well near an oil and gas drilling site, there is always a question of where it came from. Is it from a failure in the drilling or did the gas migrate naturally? New research from CU Boulder could help definitively answer that question.

The final Entrepreneurial Product Development project seemed straightforward. But the professor wanted to push her students out of their comfort zones, so she's enlisted a Theatre & Dance professor to add a twist to the assignment.

Laurel Hind has received a $1.8 million award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to study white blood cells called neutrophils. Her team’s long-term goal: to identify new targets for therapeutic development.

An early and ongoing love for the water and the place where he grew up informs Skyler Kern’s doctoral research, which optimizes computational models of biogeochemical processes to one day inform climate change policy.

CU Boulder is leading an interdisciplinary military-oriented research project to enable secure use of 5G networks controlled by an adversary.

In a banner year that has included receiving five distinguished research awards, the Chemical and Biological Engineering professor has now been awarded one of the nation’s largest and most prestigious awards for young investigators: a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering.

Department of Computer Science Professor Daniel Larremore has been recognized by Popular Science in its annual “brilliant 10” publication, listing top up-and-coming minds in science.

Among just 17 programs nationwide, CU Boulder's architectural engineering program received this Department of Energy designation as an acknowledgement of its focus on zero-energy design, which means a building produces as much energy as it consumes.

The Fox Group, led by Jerome Fox, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering, was awarded $1.1 million of a five-year, $12.8 million U.S. Department of Energy grant that involves seven universities and institutions and paves the way for broader use of non-food oilseed crops in the chemical industry.

CU Boulder has received a major grant to research recovery from the Marshall Fire to help communities rebuild from future disasters.