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Anthony Straub is making major advances in water purification technology for industry and human consumption on Earth and in space thanks to a new NASA grant.

Two longtime friends, CU Boulder’s Abbie Liel and Notre Dame’s Susan Ostermann, are leading a study on resilient housing in disaster-prone areas including Maui, Alaska and Puerto Rico. Their research combines Liel’s expertise in structural engineering with Ostermann’s background in political science and law.

Junior Anthony Storm is hard at work at NASA’s Johnson Space Center as an intern, developing plans for upcoming tests that will support astronauts in future missions.

CU Boulder’s College of Engineering and Applied Science welcomed its largest-ever cohort of doctoral students in 2024, with a 25% rise in doctoral enrollment year-over-year.

Professor Hendrik Heinz and his CU Boulder team, along with collaborators from the University of California, Los Angeles, achieved a breakthrough that could boost clean energy production.

Orit Peleg will receive a total of up to $2.5 million over five years to pursue the origins of animal communication and how it influences the group cognition of social animals.

Jules Fischer-White, a student in CU Boulder's environmental engineering graduate program, is helping Americans build better green homes as a modeling engineer at Emu Passive Inc.

Jessica Rush Leeker has received a $2 million National Science Foundation grant to advance her research on creating learning resources that promote the participation of Black families in engineering.

Deming Associate Dean for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Wil Srubar—the first to hold the position—will focus on fostering innovation by offering education, mentorship and resources to faculty, postdocs and graduate students to drive the commercialization of intellectual property.

Brooke Marten is engineering a better environment, focused on what happens to trash after it is carted off to the landfill—and ways to turn it into a valuable product.