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Anti-vaxxers May Reject COVID-19 Vaccination According to Jennifer Reich

Protests against social distancing and stay-at-home guidelines in states across the country have become fertile... Read more
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Marty Otanez on the Status of Cannabis Workers During the COVID-19 Crises

Marty Otanez, Associate Professor of Anthropology, studies labor issues within the cannabis industry. "With cannabis... Read more
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Lisa Keranen Quoted Extensively in Lead Article on How We Talk About Viruses

Using war as a metaphor for illness during a pandemic or global crisis is not... Read more
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Discussion of COVID-19 Impacts on Health Inequalities from Sarah Horton

As cases of COVID-19 continue to skyrocket in the United States, it is no surprise... Read more
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Amanda Weaver on the Similarities of Composting and Traditional Human Burials

Controlled human composting would, in practice, not be far off from the same process that... Read more
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Meat Eating Helped Make Us Human, says Charles Musiba

A long-standing claim is that we became human when we became carnivorous-omnivorous creatures. "Meat-eating has... Read more
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Public Health Students Win 2024 RaCAS Awards

May 6, 2024

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...

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CLAS Staff Council "Staff Shout Outs" Recognition Program

May 6, 2024

View a list of staff who received Shout Outs here! This year, the CLAS Staff Council put a new program into place to help recognize the contributions of staff across the college. Everyone was invited to submit the name of a staff member who makes the college a great place...

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Undergraduate Climate Justice Research at AAG 2024

May 6, 2024

Undergraduates, majoring in Public Health, Integrative Biology as well as Architectural Studies and Criminal Justice, delivered inspirational presentations (virtual) at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting in April. A wide range of interdisciplinary topics were presented, including El Niño disaster risk reduction (Stefanie Varghese, Luis Vargas, Ruth Hundie),...

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The Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences Celebrates 30th Anniversary of Doctoral Program

April 21, 2024

The Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences celebrated the 30 th anniversary of its doctoral program on Friday, May 3.

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Faye Caronan and Julien Langou Attend Denver Public Schools Foundation's Achieve Gala 2024

April 21, 2024

CLAS Faculty Faye Caronan (Associate Dean of Faculty and Staff Affairs in CLAS and Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies) and Julien Langou (Professor of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences) attend the Denver Public Schools Foundation's Achieve Gala 2024. Congratulations to DPS for the successful fundraiser!

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