Faculty News
Outdoor air has been regulated for decades, but emissions from daily domestic activities may be more dangerous than anyone imagined. Assistant Professor Nina Vance was featured in the New Yorker for her HomeChem indoor air quality research.
Associate Professor Fernando Rosario-Ortiz has been appointed the new director of the Environmental Engineering (EVEN) Program, effective July 1.- Professor Dr. Angela R. Bielefeldt was named a 2019 President’s Teaching Scholar (PTS). The award is the highest honor for teaching at the university level and recognizes Dr. Bielefeldt’s efforts to improve student learning both inside and outside the classroom.
- Assistant Professor Julie Korak was awarded the 2018 Membrane Treatment Best Paper Award from the American Water Works Association (AWWA) for her paper Nanofiltration to Improve Process Efficiency of Hexavalent Chromium Treatment Using Ion Exchange
- Many people worry about outdoor air pollution, especially on days where smog hangs in a brown cloud over a city. Few, however, consider the air quality in their own home. EVEN Assistant Professor Dr. Marina Vance recently spoke at the American
- CEAE Professor Dr. John Crimaldi is the lead PI for the NSF’s Odor Navigation Project. The project is aiming to understand the behavior of odor plumes and their relation with animals’ brains in order to develop technology that can navigate based on
- EVEN Faculty Professor Amy Javernick-Will and Professor Sherri Cook alongside CVEN PhD Candidate Allie Davis have recently been published in the journal Science of the Total Environment. This new publication titled “The use of qualitative
- A recent article published in Forbes discusses how researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder are teaming up with tech giant IBM, nonprofit organization The Freshwater Trust (TFT), and sensor provider SweetSense Inc. to pilot blockchain and satellite-connected sensor solutions to track groundwater usage in California.
- “Homes have never been considered an important source of outdoor air pollution and the moment is right to start exploring that,” said EVEN Faculty Marina Vance.
- The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) published a report on the educational and career pathways of engineers in the United States. CEAE Associate Professor Amy Javernick-Will, is a committee member of the NAE panel on the engineering education to workforce continuum and contributed to this report.