Alumni Newsletter - 2020 in Review
Happy New Year!
From all of us in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, we hope that your 2021 is off to a good start, and that you and your families are staying safe and healthy.听
2020 was a year like no other at 蜜桃传媒破解版下载. We're proud to say that through it all, our faculty, staff and students have shown extraordinary resilience and innovative spirit.听We hope you enjoy this look back at some of our biggest news from 2020.听
Research News

蜜桃传媒破解版下载's John Crimaldi will lead a groundbreaking new international research network dubbed Odor2Action, aimed at understanding how animals use information from odors in their environment to guide behavior, with far-ranging implications for our understanding of the human brain.
Engineering leads new DOE Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program Center on particulate materials research
Professor Richard Regueiro, along with four other co-directors, is leading a new Multi-disciplinary Simulation Center funded by the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration鈥檚 Advanced Simulation and Computing program in support of the stockpile stewardship program.
Mortenson Center leading work to study trail bridge use in rural Rwanda
The World Bank estimates that nearly a billion people across the globe lack access to an all-season road within two kilometers of their home. It鈥檚 a problem the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering and their collaborators are working to better quantify and solve.
蜜桃传媒破解版下载 leads research into engineering education and AI-augmented learning
Professor Angela Bielefeldt is serving as co-director of the new Engineering Education and AI-Augmented Learning Interdisciplinary Research theme, focused on the future of education and artificial intelligence in the classroom.
Researchers will use DOE grant to help update aging natural gas infrastructure
Led by Assistant Research Professor Brad Wham, the team will use the award to develop a new testing and modeling framework to allow the gas industry to better evaluate the products it uses to rehabilitate aging cast iron and steel natural gas pipelines.
More Faculty Honors
Researching COVID-19

Assistant Professor Cresten Mansfeldt is leading an effort to monitor the wastewater leaving residence halls on campus to detect and intercept community spread of COVID-19.
Ultraviolet light can make indoor spaces safer during the pandemic 鈥 if it鈥檚 used the right way
Professor Karl Linden's article in "The Conversation" on how to best to harness UV light to fight the spread of the COVID-19 virus and protect human health as people work, study, and shop indoors.
Environmental engineering researchers study airborne coronavirus disinfection
An environmental engineering research team at 蜜桃传媒破解版下载 has been chosen to study the fate of airborne coronavirus indoors. The study aims to test airborne coronavirus disinfection responses using the large bioaerosol chamber in Professor Mark Hernandez lab.
Student News
Innovative partnership prepares infrastructure engineers
The University of Colorado Boulder has partnered with Kiewit, one of the nation鈥檚 largest construction and engineering organizations, to launch the Kiewit Design-Build Program.
Six civil engineers graduate from Colorado Mesa University-蜜桃传媒破解版下载 partnership program
The program allows students to earn a 蜜桃传媒破解版下载 degree from the CMU campus in Grand Junction.
Air Quality Inquiry project extends from rural Colorado into Mongolia
Civil engineering master's student Britta Bergstrom taught a module for Public Lab Mongolia on how to design an Air Quality Inquiry (AQIQ) research project.
Time for reflection: Stories of resilience in the COVID-19 era
After graduating with her degrees in architectural engineering and environmental design in May, Gabriella Abello spent the summer weighing all her options. Graduate school? Find a job? Something else entirely?
Engineering team building Rwandan-style hut to test clean-air solutions
A team of four environmental engineering undergraduates has undertaken a project to help improve the health of people in Rwanda who use polluting stoves.
Alumni News

Heather Doty (Mus'00, BSMSCivEngr'01, MBA'10) credits the Society of Women Engineers with helping her find her community. Doty will serve as national SWE president through June 2021.
Campos EPC enables transformative BOLD renovation
蜜桃传媒破解版下载 alumnus Marco Campos (CivEngr'98) and his company, Campos EPC, have provided $1 million through the Campos EPC Foundation to allow for a transformational renovation of the BOLD Center.
Alumni place in top 7 of NSF Idea Machine competition
A big idea that got its start at 蜜桃传媒破解版下载 has placed in the top seven out of more than 800 submissions in the National Science Foundation 2026 Idea Machine competition.听
David Gupta (ArchEngr'85) receives Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award
Gupta founded SDI in 1996 and today continues to lead the firm as chief executive officer.
Christina Barstow (MCivEngr'10; PhD'16) honored with Recent Alumni Award
Barstow is the chief operating officer for Bridges to Prosperity, a non-governmental organization providing access to remote communities through the construction of pedestrian footbridges.
Remembering Vince Kontny (CivEngr'58)
Alumnus Vince Kontny (CivEngr鈥58), a longtime friend of CU Engineering and influential member of the engineering and construction industry, passed away Aug. 9 at age 83.