U.S. News and World Report’s Best Graduate Schools rankings for 2025 are out, and the °ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼ Environmental Engineering graduate program is #7 among public universities.

Aerial photo of a winding stream in the mountains.
°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼ leading effort to improve water quality in Rockies’ rivers

A °ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼-led team has received a $650,000 grant to measure and mitigate pollution in the Cache la Poudre and Yampa Rivers in Colorado through new sensor technology, monitoring, and a voluntary carbon credits trading system with industry.

Engineers at °ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼ are investigating whether improving classroom air quality with air purifiers can help students miss fewer school days.

The study comes at a time when millions of students across the country are chronically absent from school, a worsening trend that could have large impacts on students’ academic performance.Ìý

°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼ researchers are advancing water resource management in the South Caucasus through a partnership with Deloitte Consulting.

PhD student Shelby Buckley has made the research trip of a lifetime – studying the impacts of climate change up close and personal on a five-week trip to the Arctic aboard the Kronprins Haakon icebreaking ship.

It offered a unique chance to personally collect ice core and seawater samples and experience the excitement and fears of life on top of the world.