Orit Peleg with bees

Orit Peleg selected as a 2024 Schmidt Science Polymath

Sept. 11, 2024

Orit Peleg will receive a total of up to $2.5 million over five years to pursue the origins of animal communication and how it influences the group cognition of social animals.

Jules Fischer-White

Student designing greener buildings and a better future

Sept. 10, 2024

Jules Fischer-White, a student in ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder's environmental engineering graduate program, is helping Americans build better green homes as a modeling engineer at Emu Passive Inc.

Jessica Rush Leeker

Developing pathways for Black families to engage in engineering practices

Sept. 9, 2024

Jessica Rush Leeker has received a $2 million National Science Foundation grant to advance her research on creating learning resources that promote the participation of Black families in engineering.

Wil Srubar

Wil Srubar named associate dean for innovation and entrepreneurship

Sept. 5, 2024

Deming Associate Dean for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Wil Srubar—the first to hold the position—will focus on fostering innovation by offering education, mentorship and resources to faculty, postdocs and graduate students to drive the commercialization of intellectual property.

Brooke Marten and Professor Sherri Cook following Marten's successful thesis defense

Grad student turning trash into cash

July 10, 2024

Brooke Marten is engineering a better environment, focused on what happens to trash after it is carted off to the landfill—and ways to turn it into a valuable product.

Colorado River

¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder secures $750K to improve drought preparedness in Western US

June 28, 2024

¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder has earned a major grant to boost drought monitoring and prediction on the Colorado River.

Ryan Hayward on a hike with his two dogs

Professor Ryan Hayward new chair of Chemical and Biological Engineering

June 28, 2024

Ryan Hayward, who holds the James and Catherine Patten Endowed Professorship of Chemical and Biological Engineering, was elected chair by the chemical and biological engineering department’s faculty.

Maria Pacheco

Maria Pacheco empowers LGBTQ+ community through service leadership

June 26, 2024

Assistant Professor Maria Pacheco from the Department of Computer Science earned the 2024 Dr. Evelyn Hooker Advocacy Award for her leadership in supporting LGBTQ+ students at ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder.

Engineering Center

¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder engineering graduate program ranked No. 23 by US News

June 18, 2024

¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder is among the top 25 engineering graduate programs in the country, according to U.S. News and World Report’s Best Graduate Schools rankings for 2025.

Professor Edith Zagona

Modern water management approaches on tap during USAID visit

June 10, 2024

Professor Edith Zagona provided technical and advisory services during a U.S. Agency for International Development-sponsored visit to Armenia, where rural communities are running out of water due to uncontrolled use by fish farms and pollution caused by untreated mining tailings.

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