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Chemistry Professor Scott Reed

Scott Reed receives NIH grant to develop tools to understand adverse drug reactions

Aug. 30, 2024

The NIH awarded chemistry professor, Dr. Scott Reed , a grant to develop cutting-edge chemoinformatic tools aimed at understanding genetic factors behind adverse drug reactions (ADRs). This pharmacogenomics project seeks specifically to illuminate genetic interactions that drugs and their metabolites may have, which could inadvertently cause "off-target" side effects. The...

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Amanda Weaver's Graduate Students from GES present at the Wheat Ridge City Council Test on video reads, "Wheat Ridge City Council Study Session, May 6, 2024"

Amanda Weaver's GES Graduate Students Present Research to Wheat Ridge City Council in Study Session

Six graduate students: Vaz Ganuschchak, Meghan Thompson, Pat Hall, Erika Jermé, Hannah Larsen, and Haorui Guo, completing their masters' degrees in Applied Geography and Geospatial Science presented their community project to the Wheat Ridge City Council. The project, Map-based Decision Support Tools for the 2J Initiative , focused on the...

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GES Students Publish Volume 3 of Confluence: a Student Journal of GES

Aug. 30, 2024

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Robin Kniech, Former Denver City Council Member, Becomes Director of New Directions Program

Aug. 30, 2024

The Political Science Department recently hired an exciting new Director for the New Directions Graduate program focused on Public, Non-Profit, and Community Leadership, Robin Kniech. Robin was an at-large Denver City Council member for 12 years (through July 2023), where she became a leader in affordable housing policy and worked...

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Professor Esther Sullivan Featured in USA Today - Housing Affordability

Aug. 27, 2024

The research team at USA TODAY Homefront analyzed affordable housing statistics and data from organizations associated with homeownership.

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CU Denver News: From CU Denver to Harvard, Scholarships Go Far

Aug. 27, 2024

Why Life-Changing Scholarship Opportunities at CU Denver Were Only the Beginning for Scott Cao ’17

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Hildebrand to Develop 'A.I. Ethics' Course

Aug. 27, 2024

As part of CLAS's A.I. initiative, David Hildebrand will be developing a course entitled "A.I. Ethics" (working title). The course will examine the facts and ethical challenges of algorithms and A.I. as it affects a variety of sectors in society. Since 2020, Hildebrand has written and presented numerous articles, chapters,...

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Nicole Piasecki featured in This American Life

Aug. 27, 2024

The piece is called Dear Alice, and it takes the form of a letter written to Nicole's high school English teacher, whose husband murdered Nicole's father.

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Student Nikketa Burges Publishes Powerful Piece in Deceleration

Aug. 27, 2024

MA student, Nikketa Burges, repurposed her final paper for an ethnographic theory class into a powerful piece published in Deceleration.

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CLAS Psychedelic Research Center Highlighted by Denver Post

Aug. 27, 2024

With this new center, the University of Colorado joins the ranks of Johns Hopkins University, The University of California, New York University, Ohio State University, and others with research facilities dedicated to investigating psychedelics.

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