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Associate Dean for Research and Creative Activities and Economics Professor Laura Argys said the City of Golden’s change to a four-day work week might increase worker retention and productivity. She also says that employees are unlikely to exploit their employer's largess, noting employees will not risk this attractive opportunity through...

Associate Professor of Communication Amy Hasinoff, author of Sexting Panic: Rethinking Criminalization, Privacy, and Consent , explains why some common concerns about sexting are misinformed. Hassinoff also makes sense of unclear and varying legal issues, especially when it comes to sexting for people under the age of 18. The Art...

“The city is wholly unprepared,” Associate Professor in the Political Science Betcy Jose said referring to Khartoum. “People went to bed Friday night in a peaceful country and woke up to war, and despite the challenges, difficulty, heartache, violence and unpredictability, the people of Sudan have come together to help...

English Senior Instructor Julie Vick did a Q&A about her book, Babies Don’t Make Small Talk (So Why Should I?) , a humorous advice manual for introverted parents navigating the early years of parenthood. Julie Vick had explored parenting humor. Next she added advice. Colorado Sun , May 21

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has NOT announced that lethal batches of COVID-19 vaccinations were distributed to states with conservative-leaning populations. Social media posts spreading erroneous information are relying on a flawed analysis published by a website known to spread false information. Sociology Professor Jennifer Reich noted that...

Many American mobile home parks were built in the 1970s and ’80s — meaning their infrastructure is crumbling. “This is a systemic issue,” said Esther Sullivan, Associate Professor of Sociology who has spent years researching mobile home parks across the country. “It’s not one or two communities — it’s an...

“It typically takes new unions at least a year to get their first contracts,” said James Walsh, Political Science Clinical Associate Professor. “Starbucks is engaging in a strategy that's pretty typical in this country,” he continued. “When workers win the right to organize, the employers typically stonewall the negotiations or...

Esther Sullivan , Associate Sociology Professor, and author of Manufactured Insecurity: Mobile Home Parks and Americans’ Tenuous Right to Place , has become a go-to expert across the country on matters related to mobile homes as affordable housing options. She was recently interviewed on the state of regulation for mobile...

In this piece Anna G. Warrener, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, discusses the preoccupation with pelvis size and how it hides a complicated story of interacting biological and cultural factors that shape the human birth experience. She says, “The obstetrical dilemma , a term first coined by Sherwood Washburn in 1960,...

Oxidative stress occurs when there is an imbalance between the production of free radicals and the body’s ability to counteract them. Oxidative damage is involved in aging and in several diseases. Smoking "can generate some of these reactive species," says Marino Resendiz, Associate Professor of Chemistry. "So then that can...