Vince Kontny

Remembering Vince Kontny (CivEngr'58)

Sept. 23, 2020

Alumnus Vince Kontny, a longtime friend of CU Engineering and influential member of the engineering and construction industry, passed away Aug. 9 at age 83. Kontny served on the college’s Engineering Development Council for many years and earned the Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award in 1989, as well as an honorary doctorate from CU Boulder in 1991.

Keith Molenaar in mask

Reminders as we move remote

Sept. 21, 2020

Key points from today's announcement

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Air Quality Inquiry project extends from rural Colorado into Mongolia

Sept. 21, 2020

For three years, Air Quality Inquiry has been reaching K-12 students across rural Colorado. This year, Daniel Knight and his team extended the program across the globe to reach Public Lab Mongolia, a nonprofit whose mission is to make data available to the Mongolian public.

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Unmask the Racism: CU students challenge anti-Asian racism through social media campaign

Sept. 21, 2020

Unmask the Racism is a social media campaign created by students of Asian heritage at CU Boulder to spread awareness about xenophobia and racism against people of Asian heritage around the country and to support local Asian businesses.

J. Will Medlin in the lab wearing blue shirt and safety glasses

“Fine-tuning” catalyst performance for sustainable hydrogen peroxide synthesis

Sept. 17, 2020

New research from Professor J. Will Medlin and collaborators at three other institutions points to a new, inexpensive and sustainable method of synthesizing hydrogen peroxide.

Keith Molenaar in mask

Supporting one another during 14-day quarantine

Sept. 16, 2020

Together we can, and will, Protect our Herd.

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Rankings: College continues to climb, computer science debuts strong

Sept. 16, 2020

The College of Engineering and Applied Science gained another spot in U.S. News and World Report ’s Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs rankings for 2021, moving up to No. 15 among public universities. The magazine, which has been ranking educational programs since 1983, also released its inaugural list of Best Undergraduate...

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Alumni Volunteer Spotlight: Shane Fleming, MechEngr'08

Sept. 16, 2020

Shane Fleming (MechEngr’08) is proof that an engineering degree can open doors across a wide variety of professions. His professional story has been eye-opening to CU Engineering students, showing that a degree in engineering doesn’t require specialization in a single field. Shane also graduated at the onset of the 2008...

Kent with his camera by a lake with fall trees

Engineer-turned-photographer finds ‘Stillness’ in quarantine

Sept. 14, 2020

Kent Burkhardsmeier (ArchEngr’84) did something many intended but few have accomplished during the COVID-19 quarantine: He published a book.

Artist's depiction of the twin Janus spacecraft. (Credit: Lockheed Martin)

Where no spacecraft has gone before: A close encounter with binary asteroids

Sept. 10, 2020

CU Boulder and Lockheed Martin will lead a new space mission to capture the first-ever closeup look at a mysterious class of solar system objects: binary asteroids. These bodies are pairs of asteroids that orbit around each other in space, much like the Earth and moon. In a project review...

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