Faculty News
Professor Keith Molenaar has been awarded the 2021 Peurifoy Construction Research Award by the American Society of Civil Engineers Construction Institute (ASCE-CI) Construction Research Council.
Much of the western United States has seen less than 85% of the snow it is used to getting and it is worrying some about the fire season ahead. 鈥淭here absolutely is a lot of concern that we could see another record fire season,鈥 said Ben Livneh, a
As the global pandemic developed, keeping adequate personal distance and using effective ventilation systems were emphasized to control the spread of COVID-19 鈥 especially in confined spaces. That is because social distancing avoids direct contact
DENVER (KDVR) 鈥 It鈥檚 possible, but not probable, that Colorado could experience widespread blackouts for days as millions of people in Texas have, according to energy experts. About 90% of Texas is on its own independent power grid, the Texas
As rainfall is increasingly scarce in East Africa, existing groundwater supplies become the main source of water for people, livestock and agriculture. Maintaining access to this life-sustaining resource requires an extensive network of wells and
Professor Mark Hernandez will give an overview of the modern methods for determining the identity, distribution, and abundance of the airborne microbes that we encounter indoors and the persistence of airborne viruses such as COVID-19 at
Since the summer, Professor Mark Hernandez and his team have been working in the Denver district鈥檚 classrooms to install a new generation of high-efficiency air filters.
The World Bank estimates that nearly a billion people across the globe lack access to an all-season road within two kilometers of their home. It鈥檚 a problem the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering and their collaborators are working to better quantify and solve.
Frost quakes are not particularly rare, but they are harder to observe than traditional earthquakes. Professor Roseanna Neupauer was part of a recent effort to develop new models with the Oulu, Finland, 2016 quake data, the results of which are discussed in a new paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research.
The National Water Research Institute (NWRI) and the Joan Irvine Smith and Athalie R. Clarke Foundation will present the 2020 Clarke Prize to Professor Karl Linden on Nov. 10. NWRI administers the prestigious $50,000 prize.