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“We've been seeing traffic accidents and spending continuing to crawl up during a time period where cases were crawling up at the same time,” said Andrew Friedson, Associate Professor of Economics, whose work has increasingly focused on the effect of COVID-19 on consumer behavior. “So it's a little unclear to...

Bringing gray wolves back to Colorado has the potential to help bridge gaps between packs in the Great Lakes, the Northern Rockies, and the West. That would lead to more genetic exchange and healthier future generations of wolves, according to Diana Tomback, Professor of Integrative Biology, who has also served...

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s signature “neighborhood policing” program appears to have helped reduce the number of low-level arrests in most precincts — but has done little to slow crime or eliminate racial bias in who gets charged, a new study asserts. Assistant Professor of Sociology Brenden Beck...

UnitedHealth and other insurers set rates prior to the pandemic and are the happy recipients of gobs of cash resulting from fewer claims being filed. “I see this as a case where insurance companies may have been handed a windfall, as money in was based on a high projection of...

Scientists say that wildfires have become hotter, more intense and more destructive in recent years. In Colorado, the threat has also intensified as the fire season has grown longer. “This is exactly what we expect from climate change,” Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology Brian Buma said. “It’s not going to...

Producing a safe and effective vaccine for a disease within a year of that disease's discovery would be unprecedented. Even if "Operation Warp Speed," Trump's initiative to streamline the vaccine development, approval and distribution process, is successful, the number of things that would have to go right for a vaccine...

Associate Professor of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Joshua French says, “The pandemic has changed the playing field in terms of winners and losers.” He goes on to say, “A major change is where we work. While there will always be a need for corporate offices of some sort, employers and...

New research from a team, including Economics Professor and Associate Dean Laura Argys, shows that living in a flight path can increase the chance of having a child born underweight by approximately 20%. “For people who live right on along the runway…and experienced increases in exposure to airplane noise, there’s...

The university recently established the CU Denver Employee Emergency Relief Fund to support faculty and staff experiencing emergency situations; such as food insecurity, housing assistance, and unexpected medical expenses. As with our student emergency fund, the Loving Lynx Fund , the employee relief fund relies on the generosity of our...

Satellite data products developed by Mathematical and Statistical Sciences Professor Jan Mandel, and his team, for the California fires are now on the official NASA Disasters Portal , and were also recently featured on TV news in the Bay Area. NBC Bay Area , Sept 2 KGO-TV , Sept 2 KTVU-TV , Sept 1