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Sharvelle listed as CSU innovator for anaerobic digestion patent

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Sharvelle is recognized in the list of 2024-25 CSU innovators for her team’s patent on advanced anaerobic digestion to carboxylic acids.

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Omur-Ozbek named 2025 Engineering Unleashed Fellow for excellence in engineering education

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Pinar Omur-Ozbek has been named a 2025 Engineering Unleashed Fellow for embracing an entrepreneurial mindset and using maker activities in undergraduate environmental engineering courses.

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Q&A: Bailey discusses selenium transport with SOURCE

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Professor Ryan Bailey shares his research on water contamination due to selenium transportation via groundwater with CSU’s SOURCE.

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Brennan to lead next era of civil engineering greatness at CSU

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Rachel Brennan is the new department head for civil and environmental engineering at CSU, bringing her extensive experience as a researcher and professor for over 20 years at Penn State.

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Bailey’s groundwater research reveals indirect benefits of centuries-old flood irrigation method in Western Slope

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Professor Ryan Bailey’s work around the White River in Meeker, CO revealed the practice of flooding agricultural fields for irrigation has raised the water table and recharged the river for over 100 years.

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Undergraduates win first place in international engineering design contest

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Four CSU civil and environmental engineering undergraduate students competed in the Engineers Without Borders UK 2025 contest “Engineering for People Design Challenge” and received the top award for their design, recycling plastic waste into concrete sidewalks in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Posted in News, StudentsTagged Featured Stories, Undergraduate

White selected as Fulbright Specialist for river vegetation study in Chile

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Assistant Professor Danny White will travel to Chile for a collaboration with Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción to study how non-native vegetation impacts river systems.

Posted in News, ResearchTagged Faculty, Featured Stories, Water

Engineers abroad: What the UK teaches incoming students about engineering and beyond

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Eleven new civil engineering undergraduates spent the summer before their first CSU class visiting modern and historic engineering landmarks in London, Bristol, and Bath.

Posted in News, SOURCE, StudentsTagged Featured Stories, Undergraduate

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.

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

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