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In this Washington Post article, Professor Mark Hernandez advocates for installing HEPA air cleaners in homes, especially with smoke from Canadian wildfires now blanketing the northeastern United States. “I look at them (air purifiers) as the seat belts for lungs," he said. Hernandez is helping to install these filters in schools across the state in partnership with Colorado’s Clean Air for Schools program.

Water Resources Professor Balaji Rajagopalan grew up in a small railroad town near Hyderabad, India, in a home without running water. Now an expert in hydrology, climatology and water resources, Rajagopalan was recently honored with a Fulbright-Kalam Climate Fellowship and an opportunity to make a difference in his native country.

Mortenson Center Director Evan Thomas leads Virridy, which is working to connect the global carbon credit market to water treatment.

CEAE Professors Angela R. Bielefeldt and Amy Javernick-Will recently received seed grants for individual projects through the Engineering Education and AI-Augmented Learning Interdisciplinary Research Theme. The award is given to help spur research teaming in the college and boost early projects with the high potential for societal impact.

More than 50 percent of the largest lakes in the world are losing water, according to a groundbreaking new assessment published today in Science. The article was coauthored by Professor Balaji Rajagopalan and Associate Professor Ben Livneh, both from CU ÐßÐßÊÓƵ's Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering. Fangfang Yao, a CIRES visiting scholar, was the lead author.

In this episode of "Parched," CPR's podcast about people who rely on the river that shaped the West and have ideas to save it, Research Professor Edith Zagona explains what it would take to bring more water to the Colorado River states from the Mississippi River.

Two graduating architectural engineering seniors earned Graduating Student Awards from the College of Engineering and Applied Science this year and shared their thoughts about their experiences at CU ÐßÐßÊÓƵ.

Brad Wham, assistant research professor in CU ÐßÐßÊÓƵ’s Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, was a member of one of the three Learning From Earthquakes (LFE) reconnaissance teams that traveled to Turkey in March to assess the impacts of the Feb. 6 KahramanmaraÅŸ earthquake. The team specifically looked at lifeline systems, including energy, transportation, water and wastewater.

The civil and architectural engineering department awards recognize students in the department who have excelled in one or more areas that make up the undergraduate experience. Awardees were selected based on peer, staff and faculty nominations as well as self-reported accomplishments and resumes.

In the engineering specialty rankings, CU ÐßÐßÊÓƵ's civil engineering and environmental engineering graduate degree programs were in the top 10 amongst public institutions, according to U.S. News and World Report’s Best Graduate Schools rankings for 2023-24.