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Large-scale model of Halligan Dam showcases real-world civil engineering at CSU

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Civil engineering students constructed a 1:24 scale of the Halligan Dam to test flood conditions and inform the City of Fort Collins’ final dam design as part of a $308M water supply project.

Posted in News, Research, SOURCETagged Featured Stories, Water

Sharvelle explains fit-for-purpose water and smart water reuse

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Posted in Faculty-Staff, News, ResearchTagged Environmental-Energy-Systems, In The Media, Water

Chávez wins Best Paper Award 2025 from International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage

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Professor José Chávez was recognized by the ICID Journal – Irrigation and Drainage for his paper: “Assessing multi-sensor hourly maize evapotranspiration estimation using a one-source surface energy balance approach.”

Posted in News, ResearchTagged Awards, Water

Smith to improve global groundwater modeling with funding from Army Corps of Engineers

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Posted in News, Research, SOURCETagged Featured Stories, Water

Ettema receives prestigious Bernard Michel award for river ice engineering contributions

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Former CEE Professor Rob Ettema received the 2025 Bernard Michel Award at the 23rd Workshop on the Hydraulics of Ice Covered Rivers in June.

Posted in Faculty-Staff, News, ResearchTagged Awards, Faculty, Water

Ph.D. candidate receives CASFM Ben Urbonas Scholarship

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Michael Talbot has received the 2024-25 Colorado Association of Stormwater and Floodplain Managers Ben Urbonas Scholarship.

Posted in News, Research, StudentsTagged Awards, Graduate, Water

Two Ph.D. candidates awarded USGS grants

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Adwoa Amankwaa and Fahim Hasan have each been awarded $10,000 grants from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) through the Colorado Water Center (CWC).

Posted in News, Research, StudentsTagged Awards, Graduate, Water

Earthquake resilience research featured in college video series

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Graduate student Prashanna Mishra discusses his research on building resilience in earthquake conditions in the “Did You Know” video series.

Posted in News, Research, StudentsTagged Announcements, Graduate, Infrastructure

A passion for rivers leads White to a career in hydraulic engineering

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Danny White joins the CEE department as faculty, picking up where he left off as a Ph.D. student, performing hydraulic experiments in the Engineering Research Center.

Posted in News, Research, SOURCETagged Featured Stories, Water

Ph.D. student earns ACI Foundation Fellowship

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Ph.D. student Awetehagn Gebremariam has received a 2025-26 Foundation Fellowship from the American Concrete Institute.

Posted in News, Research, StudentsTagged Awards, Graduate, Infrastructure

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