A team of eight faculty members from the Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences received a $68,671 award from the Colorado Commission on Higher Education (CCHE) for their proposal entitled “Mathematics and Data Science Z-degrees at CU Denver.” This will be funded with the 2024-25 cohort 6 cycle as part...

Kevin Masters, Professor in the Department of Psychology, was nominated and accepted into the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research. Initially started by the Institute of Medicine, the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research is a diverse group of distinguished scholars elected by their peers for outstanding contributions to behavioral medicine research...

Research by Michael Moore (Assistant Professor in Integrative Biology), along with two CU Denver students, is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . PNAS selected it as an article they will be promoting to the press. Here is Dr. Moore's summary of the article: "Species require special...

With support from the CU Denver’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities, Dr. Ivan J. Ramírez (Health and Behavioral Sciences) launched a prototype lab (Civic Engagement and Climate Justice [CECJ] ThinkLab) that fosters interdisciplinary research experiences for undergraduate students interested in the many facets of climate justice and social...

CLAS professors Jeff Knight (Chemistry), Chris Miller (Integrative Biology) and Hai Lin (Chemistry) published a collaborative paper in the January issue of Protein Science on research conducted with Professional Research Associate Nara Chon (MS Chemistry ‘18 and first author on the study) and recent graduate Sherleen Tran (BS Biology ’20)...

Andrea Velasquez, Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, was awarded a Russell Sage Foundation Award . Andrea Velasquez and Duncan Thomas (Duke University) will examine the selectivity of Mexican immigrants and their socioeconomic integration, comparing those staying in the U.S. and those returning to Mexico. The research is co-funded...

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences selected the following students for the Fall 2023 Outstanding Awards: Outstanding Bachelor of Arts: Ali Alnazzal, Political Science Outstanding Bachelor of Science : Benjamin Peter Denker, Integrative Biology Outstanding Master of Arts : Tyrel Seward Sorensen, Anthropology Outstanding Master of Science : Jessica...

Asma Al-Masyabi, Creative Writing student in the Department of English, has won the 2023 Emerging Poet Award from the Ruth Weiss Foundation for her poem “The Future I Feed My Brother.” The award comes with a $1,500 grant. The Ruth Weiss Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is...

Dr. Kathryn Hamilton, Assistant Professor in Physics, and Dr. Julien Langou, Professor in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, toured SC23 (Supercomputing International Conference 2023) with several students. SC23, established in 1988 by the Association for Computer Machinery and the IEEE Computer Society, is a large annual conference for High Performance Computing,...

Hani Mansour and Andrea Velásquez write about the adverse employment effects of Chinese import competition in Peru in VoxDev , a platform for economists, policymakers, practitioners, donors, the private sector, and others interested in development to discuss key policy issues and a collaboration among the Centre for Economic Policy Research,...