A group of students at graduation.

Flickr Album: Environmental Engineering Graduation 2024

May 21, 2024

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Environmental Engineering Graduation 2024

May 6, 2024

The May 2024 Environmental Engineering Ceremony will be held: Thursday, May 9, 2024 4pm - 7pm JSC Biotechnology Building's West Lawn The ceremony will be held in-person, in a large white tent on the JSC Biotechnology Building's West Lawn. It is for graduating EVEN BS, MS, and PhD students along...

Aerial photo of a winding river in the mountains.

CU Boulder leading effort to improve water quality in Rockies’ rivers

April 4, 2024

Using machine learning for better water quality. University of Colorado Boulder and Colorado State University researchers are teaming up to improve river water quality in the...

Air handling equipment on a building rooftop.

Scientists advocate for policies regulating indoor air

April 1, 2024

A group of international experts, including CU Boulder’s Jose-Luis Jimenez , CIRES Fellow and distinguished chemistry professor, and Shelly Miller , mechanical engineering professor, presented a blueprint for national indoor quality standards for public buildings, in a paper published today in Science . “The science is very clear that improving...

Mia Lonergan

Meet Our Undergrads: Mia Lonergan

March 22, 2024

We sat down with graduating fourth-year environmental engineering student Mia Lonergan to share about her CU Engineering experience! Mia has served as treasurer for the CU Boulder Society of Women Engineers (SWE) during the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 school years. What inspired you to pursue engineering or STEM in general? I...

 Mark Hernandez (middle) and his students installed air quality monitors and purifiers in Colorado classrooms.

Can air purifiers help keep kids in school? New study seeks to find out

Sept. 27, 2023

Engineers at CU Boulder kicked off a new project this month that aims to investigate whether improving classroom air quality with air purifiers can help students miss fewer school days. The study comes at a time when millions of students across the country are chronically absent from school, a worsening...

Karl Linden at the ceremony

Karl Linden receives UVA's Lifetime Achievement Award

Sept. 20, 2023

Professor Karl Linden was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the UV World Congress, hosted from Sept. 10-13 at the InterContinental Dubai - Festival City hotel in Dubai. "It was one of the sweetest moments of my career," said Linden, chair of CU Boulder's Department of Civil, Environmental and...

Four students pointing at a research poster

Researchers at CU Boulder land NSF Award for air and soil quality education

Sept. 19, 2023

Researchers at CU Boulder have received a prestigious NSF Award to teach students in rural K-12 schools around Colorado about air and soil quality monitoring. And with additional funding from a University of Colorado Boulder Outreach Award and a DEI Working Group Action Grant from the Paul M. Rady Department...

Joe Ryan

Prof. Ryan talks Colorado oil and gas drilling in new podcast

Aug. 23, 2023

Joseph Ryan is a featured in a new episode of The Sweaty Penguin podcast, a product of New York PBS affiliate WNET. The podcast focuses on issues related to climate change with a serious and humorous edge. This episode focuses on the Denver-Julesburg Basin, a major oil and gas formation...

The three winners.

Three students earn American Water Works Association scholarships

Aug. 11, 2023

Three University of Colorado Boulder Environmental Engineering graduate students have earned 2023 scholarships through the American Water Works Association (AWWA). Emma Wells (Advisors: Amy Javernick-Will and Karl Linden ) is recipient of the HDR One Water Institute Scholarship. Her work focuses on water quality and utility risk management. She says...

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