May 9, 2025
Each spring, our department awards the Herbert Riehl Memorial Award and the Maria Silva Dias Award to — typically two — students nominated by their advisers for outstanding research. This year, three students received awards because the nominees were so strong. Congratulations to Camille Mavis, who won the Riehl Award for an outstanding technical manuscript by a student. The award is named in honor of department founder Herbert Riehl. Mavis…
May 7, 2025
The Diana Wall Sustainability Leadership Fellows program prepares future innovators and thought leaders with state-of-the-art science communication and career development training. The competitive program accepts 20 advanced PhD students and postdoctoral scholars each year from across campus interested in communicating their sustainability-related research. Congratulations Matthew Davis, Lauren Magliozzi, Lexi Sherman, and Haihui Zhu on being named Diana Wall Sustainability Leadership Fellows! This is an outstanding honor and opportunity.
May 6, 2025
Our faculty, research scientists, and staff received some outstanding Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering 2025 Faculty & Staff Awards at yesterday’s All-College Meeting: Christine Chiu Art Corey Award for Outstanding International Contributions Peter Jan van Leeuwen George T. Abell Outstanding Faculty Research Award Brenda Dolan Outstanding Researcher Award Please also join me in congratulating Kelley Branson, who has been an outstanding colleague in both the department and college,…
May 5, 2025
When David Randall joined Colorado State University in the summer of 1988, he and his wife bought a home perched atop a few grassy acres on a hill south of Fort Collins. For nearly 40 years, they have lived in that same spot, set back off the road amid a scattering of blue spruce trees and ponderosa pines. I visited Randall, a professor in the Department of Atmospheric Science and…
May 2, 2025
Postdoc I-Ting Ku and Professor Jeff Collett contributed to a new study from Environmental Defense Fund finding that even oil and gas production that uses the most stringent emissions reductions technologies poses health risks to nearby residents. The team included members from EDF, School of Public Health and Ajax Analytics. They studied the cumulative risks posed by volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and ozone to communities living along Colorado’s Front Range.…
April 24, 2025
Congratulations to CSU atmospheric science alum Chris Slocum for receiving the David Johnson award from NOAA, NESDIS for your research as a young scientist having very significant importance on the understanding and use of satellite data by forecasters. Slocum's graduate adviser was Emeritus Professor Wayne Schubert. "I see the award as a testament to the foundation that the ATS and Wayne provided, the hill's culture of excellence, and the support…
