We are pleased to announce that we are hiring a full-time (9 month academic year) instructor position. The instructor will participate in course development and assessment, teaching, faculty governance, and university service with a primary focus on new courses for the professional master's track. More details available on the  CU Careers website . Review of applications began April 1, 2017 and will continue until the position is filled. 

Mortenson Fellowships are made available through generous funding by the MCEDC Fund. These students demonstrated academic excellence, engagement i n d evelopment-related activities, commitment to incorporating program knowledge,and finan cial need.

 

Congratulations to Bryan Bei, Scott Gregory, Kathy Junglen, Amin M azdeh, Brendon McNally, Eric Peterson and Amber Schrum. 

Congratulations to EDC student Shaye Palagi for earning a 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, and to James Harper and Eric Peterson who earned honorable mentions in the competition.  Shaye was one of 2,000 fellowship recipients nationwide this year and joins a growing growing list of EDC students and alumni who have earned these prestigious awards.  Article

We would like to congratulate Ryan Mahoney (MS 2012) and Greg Rulifson (PhD 2015) on being chosen as AAAS Science and Technology Fellows; fellows serve yearlong assignments in the federal government and learn first-hand about policy-making while contributing their knowledge and analytical skills.  Since graduating, Ryan has worked as a researcher on the Gates Reinvent the Toilet Challenge here at CU Boulder and for Innovations for Poverty Action in Kenya.  Dr. Rulifson is currently a member of the teaching faculty in the Humanitarian Engineering Program at Colorado School of Mines.

Congratulations are also in order for Alia Khan (PhD 2016) on being chosen as a AAAS Energy, Environment and Agriculture Fellow. Dr. Khan is a Post-doctoral Research Associate with the National Snow and Ice Data Center on the CU Boulder campus, continuing the work she started during her dissertation.

Our Advisory Board met March 16^th to focus on our program's excellence and expansion. Our advisers will spend the next several months strategizing with the leadership team on how to ensure that the MCEDC is globally recognized as the leading center for educating and training development engineers, and researching developing community issues.

The 5th Annual Colorado WASH Symposium, was held March 7-8, 2017, and  brought together nearly 300 academics, practitioners, students, and community members to discuss relevant topics in water, sanitation, and hygiene. 25 speakers and 15 student research posters and presentations discussed emerging technologies and approaches, behavior change and the social dimensions of WASH, challenging contexts, and public health. We'd like to congratulate the student planning committee on another fantastic symposium! Also check out their Twitter feed @coloradoWASH.

The Sustainable WASH Systems Initiative celebrated a successful kick-off meeting with representatives from all of the partner agencies March 5-11, 2017. Partners include  USAID/Water Office, CU Boulder, Environmental Incentives, IRC, UNICEF, WaterSHED, Whave, Tetra Tech, LINC. They will be working in  Uganda, Ethiopia, Cambodia and Kenya.  Please direct any questions to Karl Linden.

PhD students Kimberly Pugel, Liesbet Olaerts, and Nicholas Valcourt have joined EDC faculty Karl Linden, Amy Javernick-Will, and Rita Klees; plus project personnel Eddy Perez, Daniel Hollander, Jeff Walters, and Nancy Neumann.