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The University of Colorado has recently announced a list of strategic goals that will work towards improving innovation, impact on humanity, leadership on a national and global scale, and success for those in our community. Multiple programs were started this year with this initiative in mind, and CU just announced the newest development. The Research and Innovation Office (RIO) launched the RIO Faculty Fellows. This program has been designed to recognize faculty who are poised to lead significant collaborative projects, develop vision and deliver novel and impactful scholarly work. The first round of fellows has just been announced with two members of Environmental Engineering faculty members. Prof. Zhiyong “Jason” Ren and Prof. Fernando Rosario-Ortiz are leaders in the EVEN community and we look forward to the campus-wide impacts the will have with this new venture.

Dr. Fernando L. Rosario-Ortiz is an Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering at the University of Colorado-��«����Ƶ. He is also the associate director for the Environmental Engineering program. Dr. Rosario-Ortiz received his BS and MS in Chemistry from the University of Puerto Rico and the California Institute of Technology, respectively. He received his doctoral degree from UCLA in environmental science and engineering. His current research focuses on environmental photochemistry, impact of watershed perturbations on water quality and characterization of organic matter in different environments.

Dr. Z. Jason Ren is an associate professor of Environmental Engineering at CU ��«����Ƶ. He is also the Director of the Water Energy Nexus Interdisciplinary Research Theme at the College of Engineering and Applied Science and holds a joint appointment at the National Renewable Energy Lab. Dr. Ren's research and teaching focus on resource recovery from waste materials, water energy nexus, bioelectrochemistry, and environmental microbiology. He received Ph.D degree in Environmental Engineering from Penn State University in 2008.