U.S. News and World Report’s Best Graduate Schools rankings for 2025 are out, and the CU Boulder Environmental Engineering graduate program is #7 among public universities.
CU Boulder leading effort to improve water quality in Rockies’ rivers
A CU Boulder-led team has received a $650,000 grant to measure and mitigate pollution in the Cache la Poudre and Yampa Rivers in Colorado through new sensor technology, monitoring, and a voluntary carbon credits trading system with industry.
Engineers at CU Boulder are investigating whether improving classroom air quality with air purifiers can help students miss fewer school days.
The study comes at a time when millions of students across the country are chronically absent from school, a worsening trend that could have large impacts on students’ academic performance.Ìý
PhD student Shelby Buckley has made the research trip of a lifetime – studying the impacts of climate change up close and personal on a five-week trip to the Arctic aboard the Kronprins Haakon icebreaking ship.
It offered a unique chance to personally collect ice core and seawater samples and experience the excitement and fears of life on top of the world.
