Evan Vlachos receives Honorary Doctorate of Civil Engineering

Evan Vlachos, Professor, received an Honorary Doctorate from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in March of this year in his home country of Greece.

Aristotle University Rector Yannis Mylopoulos and CSU President Tony Frank combined Vlachos' award ceremony with a signing of an International Memorandum of Understanding between the two universities.

The memorandum creates a partnership between the two universities that will focus on:

• Water diplomacy involving multiple countries;
• Water resources planning and management with emphasis on new techniques and models;
• Exploration of extreme hydrologic events such as drought and floods and their consequences for water-scarce and water-stressed hydrologic regimes;
• Exchanges of graduate students and faculty; and
• Comparative drought and desertification studies involving the agricultural economies of Colorado and Greece.

1st Place Civil Engineering Senior Design Project Winners

BANAA Engineering Katherine Adams, Kelly Bergdolt, Fares AlQahtani, Dustin North, Brian Auer

BANAA Engineering conducted research in the area of water reuse and conservation to assist the new Engineering II building in achieving LEED Gold or Platinum Certification (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design). The building will be located on the corner of Meridian Avenue and Laurel Street on the Colorado State University main campus.

Dr. Karan Venayagamoorthy selected for the 2011 Best Teacher Award!

Dr. Karan Venayagamoorthy has been selected as one of the 2011 Best Teacher Award recipients by the CSU Alumni Association. Each year the CSU Alumni Association and the Student Alumni Connection encourages students, alumni and faculty and staff to submit nominations for our Best Teacher awards. This year Dr. Venayagamoorthy was selected for this award and we are very proud of him and offer him our congratulations!!

$2.75M to Train Next Generation of Water Scientists and Engineers

Civil engineering professor Jorge A Ramirez will head a National Science Foundation education program known as "Water, Atmosphere, Ecosystem Education and Research" or "WATER." Ramirez and his collaborators received the prestigious NSF grant to develop a new doctoral program in integrated, multidisciplinary research and education that addresses the complex hydrologic, ecologic, and socio-economic challenges facing society.

"Water management decisions generate conflicts between humans, ecosystem needs and political jurisdictions," Ramirez said. "Therefore, there is a critical need for scientists who can address three important questions: 1) how can limited fresh water be distributed equitably in a socially acceptable and sustainable framework; 2) what are the relative ecological and societal benefits and drawbacks of management actions; and 3) how can science provide answers for wise water management decisions?"

The five-year grant will train as many as 30 doctoral students in civil and environmental engineering, atmospheric science and ecology on all aspects of WATER science and engineering.

For more information about this new program, contact Jorge A Ramirez or visit this website.

ASCE 2010 Honors and Awards

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering had excellent representation in the Recent ASCE 2010 Honors and Awards:

Donald K. Frevert, Alum	Arid Lands Hydraulic Engineering Award
Jon A. Peterka, Alum	Jack E. Cermak Medal
Sybil E. Sharvelle, Faculty	Rudolph Hering Medal
Mazdak Arabi, Faculty	Rudolph Hering Medal
Vijay P. Singh, Alum	Norman Medal
Lynda Barber-Wiltse, Alum	Harold R. Peyton Award for Cold Regions Engineering
Jose D. Salas, Faculty	Ven Te Chow Award

Fulbright Scholar to help Chileans rebuild

Civil engineering Professor Larry Roesner will travel to Chile as a Senior Fulbright Scholar to assist rebuilding efforts in areas recovering from this summer's 8.8-magnitude earthquake. Roesner, a widely recognized expert in urban water management, will be helping officials develop a manual for state-of-the-art water and wastewater treatment design.

Read more about Larry Roesner's Fulbright appointment here.

Outreach with our Wind program

The students' visit in our laboratory was a part of a field trip at the Engineering Research Center (ERC) of first grade students from a local elementary school. It is an annual event during which the students visit various laboratories at ERC.

During the visit at the Wind Engineering and Fluids Laboratory (WEFL) students learn how wind effects on buildings and structures are modeled using wind tunnels. To relate the modeling of wind in wind tunnels to students' experience(s) with wind (e.g. during outdoor activities, bike riding, etc.), students are divided into small groups and each group is exposed to wind generated inside a large wind tunnel at WEFL. During this experiment the wind speed is gradually increased and students are asked to compare their perception of the modeled wind with their "wind experiences" during outdoor activities, e.g. bike riding, etc. Graduate students affiliated with WEFL provide assistance during this testing. A general Q&A period, during which 1st graders are encouraged to ask questions related to wind and related topics, concludes the students' visit at WEFL. It appears that impact of students' experience with with-tunnel generated wind is long lasting, as some of the students (several years later) seek assistance at WEFL during their work on science fair projects and other science/learning activities.

Over the years the personnel of WEFL have participated in a number of wind engineering outreach activities involving teachers and students from local K12 schools, and a couple of pre-school care/learning centers. Information on wind engineering activities at WEFL can be found at www.windlab.colostate.edu.

2010 Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty and Awards

Staff Award for Excellence
Kathy Stencel

Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching
Darrell G. Fontane

Outstanding Faculty Performance
Subhas K. Venayagamoorthy

Faculty Award for Excellence in Service/Outreach
Sybil E. Sharvelle

Faculty Award for Excellence in Service/Outreach
Jose L. Chavez

Faculty Award for Excellence in Research
Thomas C. Sale

*Other Awards*

Mazdak Arabi was selected by ASCE for the 2010 Rudolph Hering Medal.

Suren Chen received the 2009 Collingwood Prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers. In addition he received the 2009 ASCE Outstanding Reviewer and was nominated for the Best Teacher Award by the Colorado State Alumni Association.

Tim Gates was nominated for the Best Teacher Award by the Colorado State Alumni Association.

Linda Hinshaw received the College of Engineering Outstanding Administrative Professional Award.

Paul Heyliger received the Best Professor of the Year, by the COE Student Engineering Legislature.

Jorge Ramirez was selected as an Outstanding Faculty Member by CSU's Greek Life Community this year.

Jose Salas was selected by ASCE for the 2010 Ven Te Chow Award.

Sybil Sharvelle was selected by ASCE for the 1010 Rudolph Hering Medal.

Karan Venayagamoorthy received the Lorenz G. Straub award from the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory at the University of Minnesota for his Ph.D. dissertation.

Evan Vlachos received the Office of International Programs 2010 Distinguished Service Award which recognizes faculty or staff who have made a significant impact campus-wide on internationalization efforts of Colorado State University.

Emeritus Professor, Dr. Robert Ward, receives the 2010 Elizabeth Jester Fellows Award

Dr. Robert C. Ward, is dedicated to improving the state of the science of water quality monitoring through the delivery of quality education, development of coherent water monitoring systems, and promotion of the development of water quality information that the public and decision makers can understand, trust, and use to further improve water resources. Dr. Ward taught two generations of students in operations research, engineering design, and water quality monitoring during his 35-year tenure at CSU and through his "Short Course on Water Quality Monitoring Network Design." His seminal text on this topic and the monitoring network design he helped develop in New Zealand stand as testament to his work. His profession of goal-oriented monitoring was reflected in the Interim Task Force on Monitoring products, as well as the National Water Quality Monitoring Council's (NWQMC) Framework for Water Quality Monitoring. Internationally he has served on the scientific Organizing Committee for four Europe-wide conferences on water quality monitoring.

Dr. Karan Venayagamoorthy wins the Lorenz G. Straub award

Dr. Karan Venayagamoorthy, an Assistant Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering at CSU has won the prestigious Lorenz G. Straub award from the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory at the University of Minnesota for his 2006 PhD dissertation at Stanford University.

Professor Roberto Ballarini (the Head of Department of Civil Engineering) who presented the award to Dr. Venayagamoorthy at the Award Ceremony held at the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory at the University of Minnesota.

Dr. Salas to receive award from the American Society of Civil Engineers

Dr. Jose Salas's prestigious new award from the American Society of Civil Engineers will be presented May 16-20 in Providence, Rhode Island. This is the most visible and prestigious award given in his field of hydrology.

The prestigious Ven Te Chow award of the American Society of Civil Engineers is presented annually to individuals in recognition of lifetime "...exceptional achievement and significant contribution in research, education, and practice" in the field of hydrologic engineering. In particular, Pepe is being recognized for his significant contributions to hydrology in the areas of probabilistic and stochastic characterization of hydrologic processes, flood forecasting, regional drought analysis, and frequency analysis, as well as for his contributions to education through books and publications (he is currently working on his second book now). The award letter mentions his modeling of the Colorado River, the Nile, and the Great Lakes Basin.

Dr. Tom Sale's Seminar influences DuPont's groundwater tests

During the March 1 grand opening of the DuPont information center at 223 Wanaque Ave., an informational seminar with Dr. Thomas Sale of Colorado State University was held. DuPont has used research scientists at CSU to study how it can properly clean the underground water.

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Total Water Management" by Dr. Neil Grigg

Global water issues loom large with continued water scarcity, flood damages, pollution, and other problems. Neil Grigg, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado State, addressed them with a new book entitled: Total Water Management: Leadership practices for a sustainable future. The book was published in 2008 by the American Water Works Association and introduced at their annual Conference and Exposition, held in June in Atlanta, Georgia.

Total Water Management (TWM) is a framework for principles and practices of sustainable water resources management and is similar to the concept of Integrated Water Resources Management.

The central concepts of TWM are aimed at sustaining use of water and the environment. Dr. Grigg's book includes several chapters aimed directly at this goal. They include: planning and shared governance; triple bottom line reporting; value of water; and environmental stewardship, ethics, and education.

Dr. Sharvelle & Dr. Arabi selected for the 2010 Rudolph Hering Medal

Two of our faculty members, Dr. Sybil Sharvelle and Dr. Mazdak Arabi, have been selected by ASCE for the 2010 Rudolph Hering Medal, for the paper "Model Development for Biotrickling Filter Treatment of Graywater Simulant and Waste Gas: I." which was published in the Journal of Environmental Engineering in October 2008.

The Rudolph Hering Medal was instituted and endowed in 1924 by the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of ASCE, in honor of Rudolph Hering, past vice president of the society. The medal is awarded to the author(s) of the paper which contains the most valuable contribution to the increase of knowledge in, and to the advancement of, the environmental branch of the engineering profession.In selecting the paper, the selection committee particularly noted its originality.

Suren Chen receiving ASCE Collingwood Prize

Suren Chen, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE is the recipient of the 2009 Collingwood Prize for the paper, "Equivalent Wheel Load Approach for Slender Cable-Stayed Bridge Assessment Under Traffic and Wind: Feasibility Study," published the Journal of Bridge Engineering, November-December 2007.

Karan Venayagamoorthy won the Lorenz G. Straub award

One of our faculty members, Dr. Karan Venayagamoorthy, has won the Lorenz G. Straub award from the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory at the Univ of Minn. for his 2006 PhD dissertation at Stanford University.

"Established under the Lorenz G. Straub Memorial Fund, this Award is given for the most meritorious thesis in hydraulic engineering, ecohydraulics, or related fields. The competition is international, and nominations may be made by any recognized civil and environmental engineering program in the world. Recipients are presented with a Straub Award medal and a monetary gift."

Congratulations, Karan!

US Army Corps of Engineers contracts CSU to Design Levee Overtopping Facility in wake of Hurricane Katrina

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded $1.7 million to Chris Thornton, director of the Engineering Research Center, to design and build one of the world’s largest wave overtopping simulators at the university's Foothills Campus in Fort Collins.

The CSU team will be initially responsible for generating guidelines and methodologies for determining the forces exerted on levees during extreme storm conditions for all levee systems, not just the New Orleans area, said Thornton, also an assistant professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department.

Pinar Omur-Ozbek to Train City Water Engineers Wednesday, Nov. 18

On Wednesday, Pinar Omur-Ozbek, a research assistant professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at the university, will train Fort Collins Water Treatment Utility personnel to diagnose certain chemicals in the water using their sense of taste and smell.

USDA Awards Dr. Mazdak Arabi & eRAMS Technology

Mazdak Arabi, CSU civil and environmental engineering professor, is lead researcher for this project that was awarded $615,000 as part of the 2009 USDA national and watershed scale grants totaling $1.2 million to aid in research addressing critical water resource issues. This integrated study aims to develop and disseminate an innovative open-source web technology called eRAMS that enhances decision makers' capacity to target conservation practices for sediment, nutrient and pesticide control.

CSU & Simpson Strong-Tie Lead World's Largest Earthquake Shake Table Test in Japan

Colorado State University along with industry leader Simpson Strong-Tie and other partners successfully led the world's largest earthquake shake table test in Japan on Tuesday, July 14, showing that midrise wood-frame buildings can be built to withstand major earthquakes.

"Thorough detailed analysis of the data won't be available for weeks, but scientists are pleased with the initial results," said John van de Lindt, principal investigator on the test and civil engineering professor at Colorado State University.

Van de Lindt has conducted tests over the past three years involving smaller structures at shake tables at CSU and in collaboration with co-investigator A. Filiatrault at the State University of New York-Buffalo in preparation for the capstone test in Japan. The Japan test will enable researchers to confirm that the new design approach meets expectations.

"Previous testing has shown us that our modeling procedures are accurate for low-rise wood-frame buildings, but the test in Japan will confirm new models for mid-rise wood-frame buildings developed at CSU and design approaches developed at Texas A&M University as part of the project," said van de Lindt.

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Professor Honored with National Award for Work on Worldwide Irrigation Water Management

Wayne Clyma, professor emeritus of civil engineering at Colorado State University, has been honored with the 2009 Kishida International Award by The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. The award recognizes Clyma's interdisciplinary approaches in the improvement of worldwide irrigation water management through teaching, research and consulting.

Clyma received the award - with $1,000 - at the ASABE Annual International Meeting on June 24 in Reno, Nev.

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Department of the Interior awards CSU & Dr. Jose Salas with the Partners in Conservation Award

In Washington D.C. on May 7th, 2009, the Department of the Interior presented the Partners in Conservation Award to several organizations that contributed in developing the "Colorado River Interim Guidelines". Among them, Colorado State University (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering) along with three other universities were recognized for helping in the effort.

The contribution of Colorado State University, has been through two back to back research projects dealing with Stochastic Hydrology of the Colorado River. In these projects Dr. Salas and graduate students utilized innovative record extension techniques for updating the data base of naturalized flows of the Colorado River system, developed new approaches for reconstructing streamflows of the Colorado River based on tree ring indices, developed potential scenarios of streamflows that may occur in the Colorado in future years, characterized multiyear droughts of the Colorado using simulation and mathematical techniques, and tested the effects of stochastic streamflows on the operations of the Colorado River system, particularly the effects on reservoir levels and outflows of the two major lakes, i.e. Lake Powell and Lake Mead.

Additionally the project helped improving the software SAMS (Stochastic Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation), software developed at CSU for stochastic simulation of hydrological data. Two Ph.D. students T.S. Lee and Z. Tarawneh were funded by the referred projects. Also Ph.D. students C.J. Fu and D.J. Lee and M.S. student J. Keedy collaborated in some parts of the projects.

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Celebration of CE Emeritus Professor Maurice Albertson's Life

Maurice L. Albertson, a civil engineering emeritus professor who played a critical role in the creation of the Peace Corps, died on Jan. 11, 2009, at age 90. The Celebration of Life for Maurice (Maury) Albertson is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 14 at 10 a.m. at the First United Methodist Church, 1005 Stover Street in Fort Collins.

For more information about Maury Albertson's incredible life and accomplishments, click here.

In Memory of Dr. James Warner

On December 18, 2008, Dr. James Walter Warner passed away suddenly. He was a faculty member of CSU's Civil Engineering department since 1981 and during that time he was awarded the Excellence in Teaching award and served as the CSU Groundwater Engineering program leader. He was also a recognized expert in the Groundwater field. He was very dedicated to his students and to Colorado State University.

He is survived by his wife, Kathy Warner, his six children and twelve grandchildren. He will be greatly missed and our thoughts and prayers are with his family during this difficult time.

Yang Receives the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize

Saudi Arabia recently honored Chih Ted Yang, a civil engineering professor at Colorado State University, with the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water, one of the world's most prestigious awards for water-related subjects, for his work on Sedimentation Control in Surface Water Systems. Over 70 people competed for this prize and the award comes with a personal award of $133,000.

Yang is the Borland Professor of Water Resources and director of the Hydroscience and Training Center in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University.

Click HERE to learn more about Prof. Yang's research in sediment transport and river morphology.

Professor Salas, Member of the Academy of Engineering of Mexico

On November 7th, 2008, Jose D. Salas, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering was selected as a corresponding (foreign) member of the Academy of Engineering of Mexico (AEM). The admission ceremony was held at the Engineering Conference Hall of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Ing. N. Dominguez, Administrative Director of AEM described the process of admission as corresponding member and Dr. Octavio Rascon, President of the Academy presented a medal and a diploma to Dr. Salas, which represent the symbols of the membership. The Academy of Engineering awards membership to successful professionals that make significant contributions to engineering practice, research, and teaching. The nomination of Professor Salas highlighted his contributions in the field of stochastic hydrology and its applications to water resources planning and management.

Dr. Salas enjoyed visiting with members of the Academy and UNAM, and touring the City of Mexico. He will continue serving in the Editorial Board of the Journal of Hydraulics of Mexico and came back with the promise of returning to Mexico in the near future.

Sustainability and Public Works

Developing green cities is one of the most important goals in achieving a sustainable society. The American Public Works Association (APWA) has recently appointed a task force to recommend how engineers and infrastructure managers can take leadership across their responsibilities in engineering, management, and the different functions of public works.

Dr. Neil Grigg, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado State, was appointed to the task force to represent APWA’s Engineering and Technology Committee. APWA leaders think that engineers and public works managers can take the lead in planning and building systems to achieve sustainability. A few examples they cite are: reducing paved surface areas and maintaining tree cover; pavement rehabilitation that reuses materials; natural drainage systems; LEED certification program for entire cities; low impact development (LID); environmental improvement; local food production; affordable housing; transportation systems that work for all; abundant recreation and outdoor opportunities; and minimum carbon footprint.

Alumni 50-Year Club award winner, Everett Richardson

The CSU Alumni Association and the 50-Year Club are proud to announce the 2008 winner of the 50-Year Club Outstanding Recognition Award, Everett Richardson.

Everett Richardson ('49, '60, '65) has a bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree in civil engineering from Colorado State University. He started his career as a hydraulic engineer and associate director of research for the U.S. Geological Survey from 1949-1968.

In 1968, Richardson joined CSU as a faculty member, and is professor emeritus of civil engineering, having taught for 20 years (1968-1988). From 1968-1983 he was administrator of the Engineering Research Center at CSU, and from 1984-1988 he was the professor in charge of the hydraulics program and director of the hydraulics laboratory.

Richardson has vast experience with international projects, including research and response projects for the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, and river development studies in the United States, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, and Venezuela. He is a professional engineer (P.E.) with the state of Colorado and a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He is a senior associate at Ayres Associates in Fort Collins.

Richardson's wife, Billie (Kleckner), is a 1948 alumna, and all of their children are alumni: Thomas E. Richardson, '74; Gail Frick, '75; Jerry R. Richardson, '80. Richardson is a Life Member of the Alumni Association. To visit the CSU Alumni Association, go to http://www.csualum.com.

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Study seeks to look at water needs of whole basin

by Chris Woodka
The Pueblo Chieftain

Moving water, either through sales or leases of agricultural rights to cities, will always have consequences for both water supply and quality. Better understanding those consequences for the Arkansas River is the goal of an ambitious study proposed by Colorado State University professors Tim Gates and John Labadie. The roundtable sent the CSU request for $1.65 million to the Colorado Water Conservation Board.

"We can't deal with a problem of moving water either in or out of the basin without looking at the entire basin," Labadie told the Arkansas River basin, we can use it to improve efficiency and still meet the needs of water rights and the Arkansas River Compact."

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"Chase the Wind" Transportation Safety Studies on I-70

If you have ever watched the movie "Twister", you may still remember those scientists who chased the tornado using those sensors floating in the air. CSU researchers recently also chased strong wind along I-70 with various sensors.

Dr. Suren Chen (PI) and Dr. Juhua Liu (co-PI) with two graduate students in Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at CSU have been working on a research project entitled "Traffic Safety Vulnerability Information Platform (TS-VIP) for Highways in Mountainous Areas Using Geospatial Multimedia Technology", which is sponsored by Mountain-Plains Consortium (MPC)-a USDOT university transportation research center. The research team integrates an advanced 3-D ultrasonic anemometer for wind measurements, a NI mobile data acquisition system for vehicle dynamics, three accelerometers, and a GPS-based video mapping system (VMS) for collecting geospatial multimedia information of the Interstate highway. The overall goal of the project is to develop a framework and web-based platform of a “Transportation Safety Vulnerability map” with traffic safety characteristics on feature points.

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Lessons Learned from Tornado Damage Investigations

In the wake of the Windsor tragedy and as we approach the heart of tornado season along eastern Plains, it's a good opportunity to review the major strides scientists have made in improving lives through structural engineering - and the work still ahead.

In addition to being an innovator in renewable energy, Colorado has a potential to become regional (and with appropriate institutional support) national leader in providing science-based and sustainability engineering-oriented solutions to reduce wind-induced direct and indirect losses. Organizations such as Colorado State University are working on advancing fundamental and applied research focused on new solutions to reduce wind-induced property and human losses.

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Graywater Irrigation

If Sybil Sharvelle has her way, your daily showers will bring flowers. An assistant professor in the civil and environmental engineering department, Sharvelle’s area of expertise is biological waste processing.

Currently, her research focuses on the reuse of household graywater from baths, showers, hand sinks, and laundry for landscape irrigation.

Graywater is diverted through a separate plumbing system to a storage tank, while water from the kitchen sink and toilet continues through the sewer system.

"We're looking at irrigation of landscape only," Sharvelle says. "Because graywater can contain very small amounts of fecal material, it is not known to be safe for use in food gardens."

Read the full story from the CE Spring 08 Newsletter.

Studies of Photovoltaic Roofing Systems

Departmental involvement in development of renewable energy systems includes research and service activities carried out at the Wind Engineering and Fluids Laboratory (WEFL, www.windlab.colostate.edu), under guidance of Dr. B. Bienkiewicz. These efforts have been primarily focused on development of optimized wind resistant photovoltaic (PV) roofing systems. The WEFL’s team has assisted several companies developing such products. The most prominent on this list is SunPower Corporation (www.sunpowercorp.com), a leading US provider of a variety of photovoltaic systems installed worldwide.

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Dr. Brian Bledsoe Receives the Fulbright Award

Dr. Brian Bledsoe was one of two Colorado State University faculty members to be awarded Fulbright Scholar grants to lecture and conduct research abroad.

Bledsoe will leave in March for the Universidad de Concepcion in Chile for the 2008 academic year. He will host interdisciplinary river seminars about managing river flows and stream monitoring for environmental scientists, aquatic ecologists and engineers.

In Chile, Bledsoe will research how hydrologic and geomorphic processes influence variations in stream ecology around the landscape. He will also focus on environmental flows below dams, balancing how much water is needed to sustain a healthy ecosystem while fulfilling human needs.

About 800 U.S. faculty and professionals will travel abroad through the Fulbright Scholar Program. Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the program's purpose is to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the rest of the world.

Story by Emily Narvaes Wilmsen

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Dr. Amy Pruden Receives Presidential Early Career Award

Dr. Amy J. Pruden-Bagchi was one of two Colorado State University faculty members to be honored by President George Bush on Thursday, November 1 with the Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering.

This program recognizes outstanding scientists and engineers who, early in their careers, show exceptional potential for leadership at the frontiers of knowledge. This presidential award is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers.

Pruden-Bagchi, nominated by the National Science Foundation, is recognized for research using molecular biology to investigate the pathways, mitigation and treatment of antibiotic-resistant genes in the environment.

Story by Emily Narvaes Wilmsen

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