Research
The Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering welcomes two new faculty members in Fall 2025. Meet Assistant Professors Laura Sunberg and Zhi Li—and see why we’re so excited to have these talented scholars on our team.
The study, led by civil engineering PhD student Daniel Donado-Quintero, shows that setting carbon benchmarks can encourage asphalt producers to lower emissions—for example by using more recycled materials or optimizing production processes—supporting Colorado’s Buy Clean Act and CDOT’s efforts to reduce embodied carbon.
Researchers at CU Boulder have developed a new bioimaging device that can operate with significantly lower power and in an entirely non-mechanical way. It could one day improve detecting eye and even heart conditions.
See is advancing new technologies to boost the performance of future sustainable batteries.
Pioneering research institute led by the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder launched in 2020 to explore how classrooms could become more effective and engaging learning environments.
In a new study, a team of computer scientists and engineers from the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder created nearly 2,300 original sudoku puzzles, which require players to enter numbers into a grid following certain rules, then asked several AI tools to fill them in.
A gecko-inspired technology developed by the Shields Lab, in collaboration with doctors at the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, uses a specially designed material that adheres to tumors inside the body and steadily releases chemotherapy drugs over several days—potentially allowing for fewer but longer-lasting therapies.
Anthony Straub is making revolutionary advances in water purification for life on Earth and in space. Using nanoscale membranes—thinner than 1/100th the width of a human hair—Straub has developed a...
Anant Telikicherla is developing new instrumentation for an upcoming sub-orbital rocket flight.ÌýSurrounded by racks of electronics equipment, tools, and pieces of an aluminum rocket body – the laboratory could be mistaken for a mad scientist’s
The future of moon exploration may be rolling around a non-descript office on the CU Boulder campus.ÌýHere, a robot about as wide as a large pizza scoots forward on three wheels. It uses an arm with a claw at one end to pick up a plastic block