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Magnus Boee, a civil engineering graduate student and Division 1 athlete, excelled in Nordic skiing for the Colorado Buffalos. He earned both a BS and MS while training and competing. Boee represented South Korea in Nordic skiing at the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics, with sights set on the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy.
Manjeet Pandey, a CU Boulder civil engineering master's student, was named a 2024 ASCE New Face of Civil Engineering. After the 2015 Nepal earthquake, he led the construction of 21 community hospitals in his home country of Nepal and helped build 102 schools in Nepal and worldwide.
Three seniors from the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering received Graduating Student Awards from the College of Engineering and Applied Science and shared their thoughts about their CU Boulder experiences.
Civil Engineering PhD Student Madeline Pernat received a 2024 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for her research on large-scale water management in the Colorado River Basin.
A team led by Environmental Engineering Professor Evan Thomas received a $650,000 NSF Convergence Accelerator grant to measure and mitigate pollution in Colorado's Cache la Poudre and Yampa Rivers through new sensor technology, monitoring and a voluntary carbon credits trading system with industry.
Professor Abbie Liel's work focuses on finding new ways to design and assess structures to withstand extreme conditions, aiming to make them safer and more sustainable.
Associate Professor Aditi Bhaskar, from CU Boulder’s Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, and Assistant Professor Isabella Oleksy, of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, received a $296,000 grant from the Colorado Water Board to investigate ground cover options that could replace turfgrass.
The Alumni Engagement Medal (AEM) was established for college academic degree programs and the BOLD Center to recognize highly engaged alumni who impact their areas through volunteerism and philanthropic support.
