Faculty
- The second forum in this series on the 2021 Boulder County Fires will highlight four new research studies focused on damage to the built environment, the response of water utilities, and assessments of air quality impacts from the Marshall Fire. Participants from all disciplines and from any organization or institution are welcome to attend.
- The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society, today announced that three ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï researchers will join the ranks of its newest class of AAAS Fellows.
- ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï is leading an international network of over 50 scientists and students using olfaction to study brain function in animals known as Odor2Action. In a new story published in The Conversation, network members trace the interconnections between smells and behaviors – highlighting what we know about olfaction, the challenges we face, and what's on the horizon. Learn more about their work and potential applications in engineering, neuroscience and public health.
- Hydrogen has long been seen as a possible renewable fuel source, held out of reach for full-scale adoption by production costs and inefficiencies. Researchers in the Weimer Group are working to address this by using solar thermal processing to drive high-temperature chemical reactions that produce hydrogen and carbon monoxide, which can be used to synthesize liquid hydrocarbon fuels.
- The Rocky Mountain Mechanics Seminar Series provides ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï faculty, staff and students with the opportunity to hear from researchers across disciplines from various institutions.
- Mechanical Engineering Professors Michael Hannigan and Marina Vance join scientists from CIRES and NOAA to install instruments in surviving houses to understand the smoke impacts on indoor air quality.
- Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor Shelly Miller shares her recent air quality research about COVID-19 transmission with The Conversation.
- Rajagopalan Balaji is a ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï professor and chair of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, and he is changing the way we see climate change.[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGC3Awsy61k]
- New ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï research suggests while unvaccinated-only testing policies make sense when the unvaccinated population is large, they have little impact on transmission when there are few remaining unvaccinated people to test.
- New research published in Nature Materials from Associate Professor Tanja Cuk and colleagues sheds light on a fundamental chemical reaction — the breaking apart of water to produce a molecular fuel such as hydrogen. Cuk is faculty in the Department of Chemistry and the Materials Science and Engineering Program (MSE) and is a Fellow in the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI).