Awards
Known for making difficult material approachable and fun, ChBE Teaching Professor Charlie Nuttelman recently won the university-wide Boulder Faculty Assembly Excellence in Teaching Award. The award also recognizes his highly successful Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), soon to surpass 500,000 learners.
Palen is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and the founding chair of the Department of Information Science in the College of Media, Communication and Information.
It wasn’t enough for Benjamin Chilton to study chemical engineering at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder. While at the university he became a firefighter, a course assistant and student ambassador, as well as studied subjects far outside the breadth of engineering.
Zamani wants to use real-life data, rather than mathematical models, to study and control autonomous systems with both software and physical components, bridging the gap between academia and industry and ensuring safety for all users.
Eric Wustrow plans to explore how censorship can be fought from within networks using passive measurement and circumvention tools at Internet service providers (ISPs).
The ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Engineering Council selected Jenna Nielson, a senior majoring in chemical and biological engineering, as this year’s Silver Medal Award recipient. The Silver Medal Award is one of the highest honors an engineering student in ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ can receive. Nielson also earned an Academic Engagement Award this semester.
Cyrus Haas is the Outstanding Undergraduate of the College for the 2021-2022 academic year and a recipient of a Research Award for his work with the Whitehead Research Group.
Congratulations to Phaedra Curlin, Padmakshi Dahal and Will Pryor!
Assistant professor of electrical, computer and energy engineering plans to explore how all of machine learning and other data can be used to control systems — from robotic networks to the power grid.
First-year PhD students Juliet Heye and Payton Martinez were awarded the five-year fellowship, which recognizes outstanding graduate students from across the country in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields.