Environmental Engineering
Professor Mark Hernandez received $1.5 million in new awards from the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to study electromagnetic
CEAE Professor Karl Linden received the IUVA World Congress Lifetime Achievement Award at its Dubai conference in September 2023.
ñ researchers are advancing water resource management in the South Caucasus through a partnership with Deloitte Consulting. Associate Professor Evan Thomas, director of the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering & Resilience, is the principal investigator on the contract.
CEAE researcher Ben Ma led a study confirming the safety of a new portable UV disinfection device for use in public spaces.
Mark Hernandez, S. J. Archuleta Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and senior author of recent research published in PNAS-Nexus, found that airborne particles carrying a mammalian coronavirus closely related to the virus which causes COVID-19 remain infectious for twice as long in drier air.
Professor Mark Hernandez, S. J. Archuleta Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, also directs ñ's Environmental Engineering Microbiology and Disinfection Lab, an experimental space used to study infectious airborne particles and realistically mimics indoor environments. In a recent study published in PNAS-Nexus, the team studied murine hepatitis virus (MHV), a coronavirus that cannot infect humans but is closely related to SARS-CoV-2.
CEAE Professor Karl Linden became the department's new chair in January, succeeding interim chair Rich Regueiro at ñ.
The Marshall Fire spurred ñ researchers to apply their expertise to the aftermath. CEAE Assistant Professor Cresten Mansfeldt, along with other researchers, collected water samples from Coal Creek waterway shortly after the fire; the work has since expanded to monitor the response of bugs and algae living in these waters. CEAE Teaching Professor Matthew Morris, who lost his Superior home in the fire, helped solicit design and construction proposals from builders, providing homeowners with a “short list” of options to select a builder.
Sherri Cook, assistant professor of civil, environmental and architectural engineering, received a Provost’s Faculty Achievement Award for pre-tenure faculty during Fall Convocation for her article, “Drivers of
