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- Dear EVEN community,Earlier this summer, EVEN released a message to our community in response to the conversation about diversity, inclusion, and social justice. In this message, we outlined four immediate steps that we, as a program, would
- Environmental Engineering Professor and Program Director Fernando Rosario-Oritz stressed the need for additional testing of #water, in a @nytimes article, in the aftermath of #wildfires and their effects on the drinking #water system.
- Prof. Jana Milford of Environmental Engineering at ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder and commissioner of Conservation Colorado plays a pivotal role in formulating rules to regulate air pollution in Colorado, by mandating methane, benzene, or volatile organic compound emissions monitoring to oil and gas companies.
- According to EVEN Prof. Shelly Miller home air purifiers can filter out the airborne particles in your air that could possibly contain Covid-19.
- Professor Karl Linden's article in "The Conversation" on how to best to harness UV light to fight the spread of the COVID-19 virus and protect human health as people work, study, and shop indoors.
- Assistant Professor Cresten Mansfeldt is leading an effort to monitor the wastewater leaving residence halls on campus to detect and intercept community spread of COVID-19.
- A gift of $2 million from the Mortenson family caps an impressive year of growth for the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering, including new federal and nonprofit funding totaling more than $11 million and significant research findings.
- Shelly Miller has spent years studying the airborne transmission of diseases. This summer, she’s worked closely with campus facilities teams to ensure that students, faculty and staff can breathe the safest possible air.
- The novel coronavirus may be able to travel from person to person through tiny particles floating in the air, according to a recent letter signed by 239 scientists from across the globe.
The international team, which includes six faculty members from ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder, lays out evidence showing just how tenacious the pathogen behind COVID-19 can be: the virus, the group says, can likely drift through and survive in the air, especially in crowded, indoor spaces with poor ventilation like many bars and restaurants. - Professor Karl Linden's research in UV light featured on the Discover Magazine.