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Dashti reflects on anniversary of Fukushima disaster

March 12, 2021

Associate Professor Shideh Dashti answered some questions on the anniversary of the disaster. Her team in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering researches the influence of extreme events on interacting soil-foundation-structure systems and the resilience of urban infrastructure.

Kyri Baker

Kyri Baker to address long standing grid optimization problems

March 9, 2021

Baker's research focuses on power systems, smart grid, renewable energy, building-to-grid optimization, and applications of machine learning in energy. Her project is titled 鈥淟earning-Assisted Optimal Power Flow with Confidence.鈥

Kyri Baker

Research explores how electric vehicle adoption may impact vulnerable communities

March 8, 2021

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder are exploring how widespread use of electric vehicles in the future may impact vulnerable communities.

Daria Kotys-Schwartz

Choose to Challenge: Daria Kotys-Schwartz

March 7, 2021

Daria Kotys-Schwartz鈥檚 engineering story started when she was incredibly young. Her parents were first-generation Americans who were big on education and taught her that she could be whatever she wanted to be. As one of three girls, she never felt there were gender-specific societal roles placed on her by her...

Rhonda Hoenigman

Choose to Challenge: Rhonda Hoenigman

March 7, 2021

Rhonda Hoenigman is the associate dean for undergraduate education for the College of Engineering and Applied Science and a computer science senior instructor at CU Boulder. No one would ever guess her undergraduate degree is in journalism.

Malinda Zarske

Choose to Challenge: Malinda Zarske

March 7, 2021

I was able to speak with our very own Malinda Zarske with the Engineering Plus Program. In the classroom, she is the type of professor that does more than teaching you what the book states. She is a professor that loves to get to know her students. Yet the path for Zarske was not always leading to engineering.

Angela Thieman Dino

Choose to Challenge: Angela Thieman Dino

March 7, 2021

Angela Thieman Dino is a senior instructor in the Engineering Leadership Program. She pulls from her experience and background as an anthropologist and integrates the lessons she has learned into her teaching, specifically focusing on the connection between technology and culture. Thieman Dino on Torreys Peak Highlights Earned PhD in...

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Choose to Challenge: Penina Axelrad

March 7, 2021

Penina Axelrad is a distinguished professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Stephanie Bryant

Choose to Challenge: Stephanie Bryant

March 7, 2021

Stephanie Bryant is a professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and has been a part of this university since 2005. She currently serves as the associate director of the Materials Science and Engineering Program and has recently been elected to be the director starting in July.

JoAnn Silverstein

Choose to Challenge: JoAnn Silverstein

March 7, 2021

JoAnn Silverstein Is a professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is a professional engineer, and her work focuses on water and wastewater treatment process analysis. Silverstein has received numerous awards throughout her career including the Distinguished Engineering Educators award...

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