Wil Srubar

Video: Bacteria that grow into bricks being researched at 蜜桃传媒破解版下载

July 24, 2019

Professor Srubar鈥檚 research got featured on 9 News. Srubar's goal is to create a living hybrid building material that exhibits both structural and biological function. The possibilities for his work are endless and especially interesting in extreme environments and military applications. Bricks could self-heal after natural disasters or enemy fire, or act as alarms by changing color when there are toxins in the air.

Paul Chinowsky

Climate change will ruin train tracks and make travel hell

July 16, 2019

"This is not a problem that鈥檚 going away," emphasized Paul Chinowsky, a civil engineer at the University of Colorado Boulder. "The impacts are not something that is 10 years away," he added. "It's something that鈥檚 happening right now."

Keith Porter

Ridgecrest earthquake mystery: Why so little destruction from huge temblors?

July 11, 2019

CEAE Professor Keith Porter, a nationally renowned earthquake engineer and research professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, said the minimal damage from the last two earthquakes shouldn't be celebrated as a 鈥渧ictory lap.鈥

ESPOL visit

Visit aims to expand research collaborations between CU Engineering, Ecuadorian university

July 8, 2019

Keith Molenaar, associate dean for research in the College of Engineering and Applied Science, recently visited the Escuela Superior Polit茅cnica del Litoral (ESPOL) in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to discuss expanding the collaboration between the two universities.

Diane McKnight

鈥楽cience Friday鈥 highlights Antarctic hydrology research by two 蜜桃传媒破解版下载 engineers

June 26, 2019

Professors Diane McKnight and Michael Gooseff work alongside a group of scientists called the McMurdo Dry Valleys Long-Term Ecological Research group (LTER), which maintains the longest continuously collected stream flow dataset in Antarctica.

Karl Linden

Linden receives Water Research Foundation鈥檚 innovation award

June 25, 2019

Professor awarded the 2019 Dr. Pankaj Parekh Research Innovation Award from the Water Research Foundation at the American Water Works Association Annual Conference in Denver in June.

Angela Bielefeldt

Professor Bielefeldt Appointed Director of the Engineering Plus Program

June 10, 2019

Professor Angela Bielefeldt will serve as the new director of the College of Engineering and Applied Science鈥檚 Engineering Plus program beginning July 1, 2019.

Jana Milford

Milford reappointed to governor鈥檚 air quality commission

June 4, 2019

Professor was recently appointed by Governor Jared Polis to a third three-year term on the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission, which oversees air quality regulations for the state.

Evan Thomas

Engineers deliver water filters, cookstoves to improve health in Rwanda

June 4, 2019

A large-scale program to deliver water filters and portable biomass-burning cookstoves to Rwandan homes reduced the prevalence of reported diarrhea and acute respiratory infection in children under 5 years old by 29% and 25%, respectively, according to new findings published today in the journal PLOS Medicine.

Wil Srubar

Podcast: Professor Will Srubar - "We're essentially creating a new discipline in my lab."

May 30, 2019

Wil Srubar is an assistant professor of civil, environmental and architectural engineering here at C.U. Guided by the tenets of industrial ecology, his team's collective vision is to engineer next-generation infrastructure materials by blurring the boundaries between the built environment and the natural world. Materials of current interest include biodegradable polymers, phase-change materials, recycled aggregate concrete, and natural-fiber composites for green building applications.

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