Jules Fischer-White

Student designing greener buildings and a better future

Sept. 5, 2024

By analyzing formulas and construction blueprints, Jules Fischer-White is helping Americans build better green homes as a modeling engineer at Emu Passive Inc. “It’s a super cool company. If an individual is going to build a house and wants it to be more energy efficient, we model it and give...

Brooke Marten and Prof. Sherri Cook following her successful thesis defense July 1.

Grad student turning trash into cash

July 9, 2024

Brooke Marten is engineering a better environment through high tech solid waste analysis. Marten just completed her PhD in environmental engineering, focused on what happens to trash after it is carted off to the landfill – and ways to turn it into a valuable product.

Shelby Buckley

Environmental engineering on an icebreaker ship at the North Pole

Jan. 31, 2023

Shelby Buckley has made the research trip of a lifetime – studying the impacts of climate change up close and personal on a five-week trip to the Arctic aboard the Kronprins Haakon icebreaking ship. It offered a unique chance to...

Sensors mounted on a rod.

PhD candidate using satellites and machine learning to combat drought in Africa

July 28, 2022

Katie Fankhauser, a PhD candidate in environmental engineering, is the lead author of a paper in Science of The Total Environment that identifies impacts of high groundwater use in response to drought in the Horn of Africa through satellite data, remote-sensors and machine learning analysis tools. We asked her about...

AWWA Scholarship recipients

Three grad students earn AWWA Scholarships

June 28, 2022

Three EVEN graduate students were recently awarded scholarships through the AWWA Scholarship program for their hard work and perseverance...

Kimberly Pugel

PhD student Kimberly Pugel Honored as 2021 New Face of Civil Engineering by ASCE

Feb. 22, 2021

ASCE has honored Kimberly Pugel as a 2021 New Face of Civil Engineering. Pugel’s work combines environmental engineering, planning, policymaking, and a heavy dose of communication skills, particularly as it relates to facilitating communication between stakeholders and decision-makers.

Anna Libey

Exploring assumptions in financing for urban water utilities in low-income countries

Feb. 12, 2021

Anna Libey, a PhD student in environmental engineering at CU Boulder, is the lead author on a new paper that compares utilities around the world and advocates for more subsidization in utility operations to provide clean water.

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CEAE and EVEN 2020 Live-Streamed Graduation Ceremony Video

May 19, 2020

The Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering Department and the Environmental Engineering Program hosted a live-streamed graduation ceremony on May 15, 2020. More than 350 graduating students, faculty, staff, family and friends attended the ceremony to celebrate your accomplishments.

Mikaela DeRousseau

Summer fellowship will help student wrap up her sustainable concrete research

April 29, 2020

PhD student Mikaela DeRousseau has received a 2020 Summer Fellowship from the CU Boulder Graduate School. DeRousseau is in her fourth year at CU Boulder with a focus on civil systems, and expects to graduate in August. Her advisors are Joseph Kasprzyk and Wil Srubar

Matthew Bentley

PhD candidate receives awards for environmental engineering research

April 23, 2020

PhD candidate Matthew Bentley was recently recognized as the top student presenter at the Emerging Contaminants Summit 2020. In addition, Bentley was awarded an honorable mention for the Figueroa Family Fellowship, which recognizes students who demonstrate a commitment to the achievement of a diverse student body.

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