Gopinath & Afridi

Gopinath, Afridi win 2016 CAREER Awards from NSF

Assistant professors Juliet Gopinath and Khurram Afridi have received 2016 CAREER Awards, the National Science Foundation鈥檚 most prestigious award for junior faculty.

Waste Not, Want Not

April 5, 2016

CU-麻豆影院 engineers aim to turn America鈥檚 dirty water into cleaner air, energy for industry Cleaning up municipal and industrial wastewater can be dirty business, but Zhiyong (Jason) Ren and his colleagues have developed the ultimate presto chango: an innovative treatment method that mitigates carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and creates renewable...

Tech for Trunks

April 5, 2016

Tourism brings in billions of American dollars for the East African country of Tanzania. It accounted for nearly 13 percent of the country鈥檚 economy, totaled nearly $2 billion in 2013, and continues to rise. But a sophisticated and well-funded enemy threatens Tanzania鈥檚 tourism: big game poachers. According to a report...

Researchers Tackle Cyberbullying

April 5, 2016

For many teens, cruel digital messages are a disturbing part of their daily social experience. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 15 percent of high school students were cyberbullied in the past year, and more than 55 percent of LGBT students experienced cyberbullying. Unlike face-to-face bullying,...

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Pay it Forward

April 4, 2016

Alumnus funds up to 20 architectural engineering scholarships a year Every year, David DeCook (ArchEngr 鈥71) hosts a dinner for new recipients of his architectural engineering scholarship. When he meets them, he likes to issue a challenge. 鈥淲e want you to try to do the same we鈥檙e doing for you,鈥...

College News 2016

April 4, 2016

Chevron Corporation Labs Dedicated CU Engineering has strong associations with the business community, as demonstrated by two undergraduate labs that are made possible with generous support from Chevron Corporation. The Chevron Chemical Engineering Teaching Lab is located in the Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building on CU-麻豆影院鈥檚 East Campus, while the...

Amy Kramer

Saving Businesses from Patent Trolls

April 1, 2016

All in a day鈥檚 work for chemical engineering grad-turned-lawyer Amy Kramer Intellectual property attorneys don鈥檛 bask in the spotlight, but they are a company鈥檚 best friend when it comes to protecting IP rights. Instead of taking victory laps for defending against increasingly common infringement cases, intellectual property attorneys are likely...

Matossians's lab

Matossian's Search

April 1, 2016

As an Apollo generation kid in the Washington D.C. area, Mark Matossian (AeroEngr MS 鈥93, PhD 鈥95) remembers watching the live moon landings on television, then wandering outside at night squinting at that very same celestial body, trying to see the lunar module. 鈥淭hat time ignited鈥onder,鈥 says Matossian, head of...

Haley Smith with basketball

Competing for CU 麻豆影院

April 1, 2016

Twenty-six students in the College of Engineering and Applied Science are also NCAA athletes who compete in CU-麻豆影院 sports. We checked in with five of them to see what it鈥檚 like to be in a demanding sport in the Pac-12 Conference while navigating through challenging engineering courses and projects. Haley...

Bridging the Global Resource Gap

June 7, 2015

For most Americans visiting the doctor鈥檚 office, shopping at the supermarket or going to work is a matter of hopping in a car and driving there.

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