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CBER Director Ulrike Passe interviewed on extreme heat alert research
CBER Director Ulrike Passe was interviewed by WHO Radio's Sue Danielson about thenewly funded NSF Smart and Connected Community project on extreme heat alerts. Read More

January 22, 2023
CBER Director Ulrike Passe Visit to Chile
Architecture professor and CBER Director Ulrike Passe recently visited the faculty of architecture, urbanism and geography at the Universidad de Concepcion in Chile to develop an international research collaboration on the environmental quality of school facilities with natural ventilation and specifically, the Los Avellanos de Polcura School in the town of Polcura, Tucapel County, Biobio, Chile. Read More

December 5, 2022
Urban-Rural System Research Coordination Network funded by the US National Science Foundation
Urban-Rural System Research Coordination Network funded by the US National Science Foundation: Finding solutions to the Mississippi River basin’s biggest challenges Read More

August 31, 2022
Passe at Center for Advanced Power Research Spring meeting
Passe at panel discussion on occupancy behavior and energy at Center for Advanced Power Research (CAPER) Spring meeting “Rapid Decarbonization Impacts on the Electric Grid” Read More

April 14, 2022
Passe at IAQVEC Technical Seminar
Holistic strategies for natural ventilation in a warming urban climate at IAQVEC Technical Seminar Read More

April 14, 2022
CBER Director Passe appointed to PLEA Board
Ulrike Passe, associate professor of architecture and director of the ISU Center for Building Energy Research, was selected to serve a six-year term on the PLEA (Passive and Low Energy Architecture) board of directors, beginning in March. The nonprofit organization engages in a global discourse on sustainable and urban design through annual international conferences, workshops and publications. Read More

April 13, 2022
A new computational study of natural ventilation based on Interlock House data published
Ulrike Passe, associate professor of architecture and director of the ISU Center for Building Energy Research, collaborated with Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, professor of mechanical engineering; Fei Xu (PhD 2018 Mechanical Engineering), now a research and development engineer at Ansys Inc.; and Songzhe Xu (BS 2012 / PhD 2018 Mechanical Engineering), now a postdoc at the University of Utah, on a recent paper published in the international journal Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments. Read More

April 12, 2021
‘Energy Savings and Daylighting Evaluation of Dynamic Venetian Blinds and Lighting through Full-Scale Experimental Testing’
'Energy Savings and Daylighting Evaluation of Dynamic Venetian Blinds and Lighting through Full-Scale Experimental Testing' by Niraj Kunwar, Kristen S.Cetin, Ulrike Passe, Xiaohui Zhou, Yunhua Li published in: Energy, Energy is an international, multi-disciplinary journal in energy engineering and research. Read More

February 29, 2020
Visiting Scholar – Research Intern 2019-2020
CBER's research team is happy to introduce Manon Geraudin, 5th year student of civil engineering and urban planning at INSA (Institute National des Sciences Appliquees) Lyon, in France. She joined us at the end of October 2019 and will stay till the second half of March 2020. Her research expertise in Building and high environmental quality make her a prefect fit for our team. Read More

January 25, 2020
“Modeling and data infrastructure for human-centric design and operation of sustainable, healthy buildings through a case study,
“Modeling and data infrastructure for human-centric design and operation of sustainable, healthy buildings through a case study,” a paper coauthored by Ulrike Passe, associate professor of architecture and director of the Center for Building Energy Research, has been published in the international journal Building and Environment, Volume 170, March 2020. Read More

January 20, 2020