Awards And Accolades

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Dr. Susan M. Schelble, a CU Denver Chemistry faculty member, was named one of the 37 new fellows of the American Chemical Society (ACS) at the Fall 2024 ACS National Meeting in Denver on August 19, 2024. Dr. Schelble was recognized as an impactful 31-year professor of organic chemistry and...

Sara Branco (Assistant Professor, Integrative Biology) received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute for Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) to support SPORES, a mentorship program for underrepresented undergraduate students. This project is a collaboration with Clark University, Purdue University, and...

In fall 2023, Dr. Resendiz was granted a renewal of his R15 grant (2R15GM132816-02) to pursue projects on the impact of 8-oxoG on the structure of RNA.

Congratulations to students in CU Denver’s Public Health BA/BS program who presented research and won awards at The 2024 Research and Creative Activities Symposium (RaCAS) on April 26. Maleeha K. Shah was the recipient of the President’s Sustainability Solutions: Policy, Society and Community Award for a project entitled, “Maternal Mental...

Donalyn White, an alum of both Political Science and English, is the 2024 recipient of the CU GOLD (Graduate of the Last Decade) Award. The award recognizes graduates of the last ten years for their accomplishments in their career, service, and/or volunteer efforts that have brought honor to individuals and...

Asma Al-Masyabi, Creative Writing Major, received the 2024 Inaugural Lit Fest Creative Writing Scholarship. Asnma is a poet, writer, visual artist, and student based in Colorado. She is a Scholastic Silver Medal Poetry winner and ruth weiss Foundation Emerging Poet Award winner with publications in The Cincinnati Review , Subnivean...

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...

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...