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Faces of Engaged Scholarship: Aniya Khalili
...practice of community-engaged scholarship. Khalili has master’s degrees in mechanical engineering and electrical engineering. She is looking forward to completing her PhD in mechanical engineering, with a focus on indoor...
Colorado nail salon workers face chronic air pollution, elevated cancer risk
Colorado nail salon employees face increased health risks due to high levels of indoor airborne pollutants akin to an oil refinery or an auto garage.......
CU Boulder researchers help clear the air in Denver Public Schools
When students from 20+ schools return to classrooms this spring, they’ll be coming back to cleaner indoor air, thanks to environmental engineering researchers.......
Students Test ‘Photo Origami’ 3-D Projects
...performed at a nanoscale in a million dollar optics lab, CU Science Discovery has found a way to model the process with $10 heat lamps and a common shape memory...
New Report Charts Colorado’s Vulnerability to Climate Change
...public health are complex and difficult to anticipate, but rising temperatures could mean more frequent episodes of unhealthy air quality and more common heatstroke, West Nile Virus, plague and hantavirus....
New Report Highlights How Climate Change May Affect Water in Colorado
...drier, and the growing season has lengthened,” Lukas said. “Wildfires and heat waves have become more common, too. Climate projections suggest those trends—all of which can affect water supply and...
CU-Boulder and NCAR Researchers Seek to Reduce Deadly Air Pollution from Cooking Emissions
...the burning of wood, plant matter, coal and waste for cooking or heating. Exposure to cookstove emissions, particularly indoor exposure, ranks as one of the five worst overall health risk...
CU Boulder Outreach Awards fund 34 projects
...Heat Mitigation Through Trees Research Associate Alana Wilson, Lecturer Mehdi Heris Program in Environmental Design Colombian Displaced Communities: Planning and Urban Design Seminar Assistant Professor Jota Samper Program in Environmental...
CU Law School Students to Install Cookstoves in Peru, Combating Poverty and Global Warming
...them rely on burning biomass (cow manure, crop residues or wood) for cooking, heating and lighting. Unfortunately, burning biomass within the home generates indoor air pollution consisting of black carbon...
Delta and Weld County high schoolers conduct air quality research
...presented their research projects at the Air Quality InQuiry (AQIQ) Science Symposiums in Delta and Greeley this week. “The students have done everything from collecting indoor air quality in...