Associate Professor of Integrative Biology Timberley Roane and her colleagues recently published, “ Application of the Indigenous evaluation framework to a university certificate program for building cultural awareness in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics .” This paper presents a case example of the Indigenous Evaluation Framework as applied to a...

Alum and former Outstanding CLAS Graduate Student Elizabeth Pansing and Integrative Biology Professor Diana Tomback are part of a team that recently published the paper, " Limitations to Propagule Dispersal Will Constrain Postfire Recovery of Plants and Fungi in Western Coniferous Forests ” in the high impact journal, BioScience ...

Brian Buma, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director of Integrative Biology, has a new book out on the basics of environmental science, ecology, and climate change: The Atlas of a Changing Climate . Over half imagery from National Geographic, satellites, historical documents, and data artists, the book takes a basic...

Assistant Professor in Integrative Biology Greg Ragland recently received an NSF CAREER award. The grant, titled, “Beyond differential expression: quantifying transcriptional dynamics and testing for adaptive value of transcriptomic responses at low temperature,” will be a comparative physiology study of transcription temperature in flies from different regions. At present, the...

Current Anatomy TA and 2019 Biology Alum, Deseray Sileo was recently awarded a full-ride scholarship for medical school at the University of California Los Angles. She was offered and has accepted the David Geffen Medical Student Scholarship , and will matriculate to UCLA this fall. This is the highest honor...

Integrative Biology Associate Professor Brian Buma recently coauthored a Tamm Review on the effects of salvage logging in forests around the world . Tamm reviews are an invited, high-profile series of reviews on rapidly changing topics of interest worldwide. Salvage logging is when disturbed forests, like post-fire or post-beetle trees,...

The Presidential Initiative on Urban Research, sponsored by the CU system to bolster each campus’s unique area of expertise, is intended to support CU Denver’s urban and place-based research and creative work. The winners were selected by the seven deans, with assistance in proposal review from eight faculty. The College...

Associate Professor of Integrative Biology Timberley Roane is the recipient of the 2020 Chase Faculty Community Service award, recognizing her unrelenting support of the Native American/American Indian community in the education of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).The Chase Faculty Community Service Award is presented annually to a full-time CU...

Brian Buma, Integrative Biology Assistant Professor, was recently awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to study the effects of historical management patterns on future carbon sequestration projects in the US and Canada. The support totals $476,254 over three years and will result in the first spatially explicit carbon...

Integrated Biology PhD Candidate Laurel Sindewald, Professor Diana Tomback, and Geospatial Analyst Eric Neumeyer had a paper published in the journal Forests on August 1, titled "Community Structure and Functional Role of Limber Pine (Pinus flexilis) in Treeline Communities in Rocky Mountain National Park". Sindewald is beginning her fourth year...