A recent NSF S-STEM award (to PI David Mays in Civil Engineering) will provide scholarships (up to $10,000 per year for up to 5 years) for Indigenous students to receive their BS from CU Denver in biology, GES, or civil engineering concurrent with their completion of the new CLAS certificate...

Two graduate students, Benjamin Lagasse, M.S.and Lamya'a Dawud, Ph.D., received travel awards from the Department of Integrative Biology to attend professional meetings.

Jared Mastin , Integrated Biology BS 2013, and MS 2017, recently published “Evidence for genetic allopolyploidy in Eutrema edwardsii (Brassicaceae): implications for conservation” in the international journal Plant Systematics and Evolution . The paper, which is co-authored by Leo P. Bruederle (Associate Professor of Integrative Biology) and Peter Anthamatten (Associate...

Erin Sanders, Psychology BA 2012, and current MS Integrated Biology student, received second place in the 2017 Student Competition for the Presidents Prize from the Entomological Society of America.

Biology PhD student Adrienne Narrowe and Assistant Professor Department of Integrative Biology Christopher S. Miller contributed to a recent publication in Nature Communications showing that microbially produced methane in a freshwater wetland is produced in parts of the wetland where it was previously assumed no methane was coming from, from...

On September 20, in the town of Jasper (in Jasper National Park, Alberta) Diana F. Tomback, Professor of Integrative Biology, presented an evening talk to the public on the importance of whitebark pine, a widely-distributed high elevation tree in the Rocky Mountains; the role of its seed disperser Clark’s Nutcracker,...

The CU Denver Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC) Program had an amazing 6 students earn travel scholarships to present their scientific research at the 2017 SACNAS National Diversity in STEM conference in Salt Lake City, Utah in October: Odalis Castro is a Public Health major working in Clyde Wright's...

Associate Professor Timberly Roane has received funding from the National Science Foundation for the project Building a Network for Education and Employment in Environmental Stewardship of Indigenous Lands . This project will foster recruitment, training, and employment for indigenous STEM students, where the term "indigenous" comprises the terms Native American,...

Andrew Boddicker , M.S. Graduate student advised by Annika Mosier, received a travel award from the Department of Integrative Biology to attend the American Society for Microbiology's international meeting, Microbe, in New Orleans, LA. He presented a poster at the meeting on his research involving the cultivation and whole-genome sequencing...

Integrated Biology Assistant Clinical Professor Tod Duncan recently authored seven chapters in the second edition of Understanding Biology (used in Biology departments across the country and internationally, with approximately 8,000 readers in the U.S. alone) with co-author Kenneth Mason. Duncan, who is credited on the cover of the undergraduate biology...