Celebrate
- A team of CU Boulder environmental engineering undergraduates has earned national recognition for a wastewater treatment project.
- The College of Music’s current graduate string quartet in residence—violinists Kisa Uradomo and Leah Pernick, violist Thomas Chafe and bassist Heewon Lee—studies with the Takács Quartet and recently won $2,000 for its performance of works by Joseph Haydn and Kevin Lau as part of the Ekstrand competition.
- A prestigious CO-LABS award highlights Matt Mendoza’s work as a visiting fellow and postdoctoral researcher in geoscience at CU Boulder, where he worked with CIRES Fellow Anne Sheehan.
- Three undergraduate researchers received national poster awards at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers annual meeting. They were selected from more than 400 presenters and judged by approximately 100 professionals.
- A team of five students from the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering took second place in the national Design-Build Institute of America student competition held earlier this month.
- CU Boulder creative communications and advancement teams were recognized last month with four Council for Advancement and Support of Education awards.
- Associate Research Professor Hannah Brenkert-Smith is a member of the wildfire research team that will receive the Pathfinding Partnerships Award on Nov. 20 from the Colorado Governor’s Awards for High Impact Research.
- Associate Professor Jota Samper of the Program in Environmental Design is the 2024 recipient of the Excellence in Faculty Community Engagement Award from the Engagement Scholarship Consortium.
- CU Boulder Professor William Wei a has been named state historian by History Colorado, his second time receiving the honor.
- CU Boulder chemist Andrés Montoya-Castillo will use a five-year Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering to study tailoring cycles affecting energy flow in solar energy conversion.