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- Professor Evan Thomas discusses the worldwide impacts of the Trump administration’s foreign aid freeze and the dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
- Associate Professor Shideh Dashti received the 2025 EERI Distinguished Lecture Award for her groundbreaking work in geotechnical earthquake engineering.
- Professor Rajagopalan Balaji was named an honorary fellow of the Indian Meteorological Society for his pioneering research on Indian monsoon variability and its impacts on public health and flood preparedness.
- CU Boulder researchers Shideh Dashti and Shawhin Roudbari discuss how 75 percent of Âé¶¹ÒùÔº and jails face climate risks—like extreme heat, wildfires and floods—disproportionately impacting incarcerated individuals, especially Black and Latino inmates.
- CU Boulder’s Living Materials Laboratory contributed to groundbreaking research showing how engineered microbes can create bioglass microlenses, paving the way for advanced imaging technologies in medicine and materials science.
- Associate Professor Sherri Cook and Assistant Professor Cresten Mansfeldt have been honored by The American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists through its 40 Under 40 Recognition Program.
- Near Lampuuk Beach in Banda Aceh, homes built for 2004 tsunami survivors now sit abandoned. Ilham Siddiq, a tsunami survivor and PhD student in civil systems engineering, cites trauma and environmental challenges as key issues in rebuilding efforts.
- Brooklyn Lash and Carl Fischer are the winners of the Clarence L. Eckel Award.
- CU Boulder’s Center for Infrastructure, Energy, and Space Testing (CIEST) has pioneered testing procedures for innovative pipe replacement solutions for aging urban pipes buried beneath buildings and roads.
- Chaya Farley, an architectural engineering student, was awarded the College of Engineering & Applied Science Perseverance Award.