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“Neguse is really making a national name for himself through this impeachment trial,” said Michael Berry, Associate Professor of Political Science. “More of a known quantity”: Impeachment trial gives Reps. Neguse, DeGette a national spotlight The Denver Post , Feb 13

History Professor Emeritus Tom Noel, called Dr. Colorado, said he has mixed feelings about the expanded interstate with its promises of parks, soccer fields and tree-lined streets. “There are improvements and there will be more room on the highway,” he said. “How it looks many years from now I’m not...

Findings from a first-of-its-kind study by Associate Dean and Professor of Economics Laura Argys show light pollution can increase the likelihood of preterm birth. She said, "We discovered that increased light pollution is linked to some pretty severe health challenges, In pregnant women, this includes a higher chance of delivering...

“As people are excited to become vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2, they may be overestimating what that protection means,” said Sociology Professor Jennifer Reich. “It’s important that they calibrate their expectations and understand that their behavior after immunization still has to be focused on protecting people around them.” The Vaccinated Class The...

President Joe Biden said a $1.9 trillion COVID relief plan would cut child poverty in half, which would be the largest reduction in recent history. “This seems reasonable,” said Chloe East, Assistant Professor of Economics. “If all these things Biden proposed passed, we might expect [poverty reduction] to be even...

Sarah Horton, Professor and Graduate Program Director of Anthropology, recently published two op-eds urging the Biden administration to include all mixed-status families in a third round of stimulus. Undocumented Immigrants Deserve Relief, Too The Progressive , Jan 13 Provide Economic Justice to All Immigrant Families in Third Stimulus Bill The Hill , Jan 11

“I think the levels of hardship we see right now, in terms of food insecurity and other measures, is at historic highs,” said Chloe East, Economics Assistant Professor. Additionally, because unemployment benefits are based on pre job loss earnings, unemployment insurance is smaller for people who were earning less. Unemployment...

“Colorado just simply didn’t have the problems with absentee ballots and such that other states had,” says Michael Berry, Associate Professor of Political Science. “That’s largely because we had an expansive vote-by-mail apparatus that we all understood how to use.” How 2020 Has Affected the Way We Vote 5280 , Dec 15

Companies producing COVID-19 vaccines must act sooner rather than later to grapple with the task of communicating and moderating this next period of the pandemic, according to Sociology Professor Jennifer Reich, who has studied vaccine hesitance. “This is not going to be magic,” Reich said. “I think that the way...

“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...