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Professional Development Workshops: First Gen Week 2024

Empowering Voices: Leveraging Storytelling to Support First-Gen Lynxes This PD workshop is meant for faculty... Read more
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Kevin Masters breaks down 'Why everybody's running marathons now'

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Political Science Faculty Interviewed on CBS Colorado Springs KKTV11

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Faculty Honored at Annual Tenure and Promotion Lunch

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Affordable Housing Brown Bag Lunch with Former Councilwoman Robin Kniech

Former Denver City Councilwoman Robin Kniech has joined CU Denver Political Science’s New Directions in... Read more
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Climate Justice Cafe: Elevating Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Research

Join us for a celebration of CU Denver undergraduate students and climate justice research. Learn... Read more
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What is Ableism?
Ableism may look like: Lack of Compliance: With disability laws and resistance to providing accommodations that make educational, workplace, and social settings accessible to all. Making Them an Inspiration: Expecting people with disabilities to be inspirational. Lack of Physical Access: Ramps, elevators, blocking accessible entrances and spaces. Inaccessibility : Inaccessible...

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History graduate, Chandler Stark, appointed the Gary Sinise Foundation Oral Historian
Chandler Stark, who graduated in 2022 with an MA from the History Department, has been appointed the Gary Sinise Foundation Oral Historian at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. As an MA student at CU Denver, Chandler focused on the histories of US Foreign Policy and the...

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Wall Street Journal cites research by CU Denver Economics Professors Velasquez, Mansour, and East in article on post-election inflation

Nov. 7, 2024

Economists at the University of Colorado Denver, studied the deportations carried out by the Bush and Obama administrations between 2008 and 2014. They found that, for every one million unauthorized workers expelled from the U.S., 88,000 American workers lost their jobs. That is because immigrant workers in certain industries such...

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Sarah Fields weighs in on 'Fairness in sports'

Nov. 7, 2024

“Maybe it’s because of the nice, sanitized way in which we consume sport as an audience,” says Sarah Fields, who studies how sports intersects with American culture. She says sports thrive on “our innate, maybe human desire — but certainly American desire — for fairness.” “It’s a standardized field with...

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Languages & Linguistics Speaker Series

Nov. 6, 2024

Please join us for a panel discussion in our Languages & Linguistics Speaker Series Explore Linguistic Diversity: Learn how languages around the world shape societies, cultures, and identities. Research Journeys Unveiled: Discover what motivates linguists in their diverse fields of study. Pathways to Linguistics: Hear the personal stories of how...

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