Deans Notes - Deans' Notes: December 2024 Edition

Support from an anonymous donor marks a milestone in the department’s ability to recruit, retain, and support talented students from diverse backgrounds

The awards for outstanding College of Liberal Arts and Sciences students, faculty, and staff honor their dedication, resilience, and hard work. We celebrate not only their accomplishments but also the values they carry forward as they step into new roles as thinkers, creators, and leaders.

The art exhibition, Hidden Elements: Water & the Environment (Oct. 29 – Nov. 3) held at the Experience Gallery in the Denver Performing Arts Center, culminated in a Friday celebration and extravaganza! The show's Nov. 1 celebration, visited by 100 attendees, saw performances by Bryn Brody (writer and Interdisciplinary Studies...

Chemistry students/researchers Vashita Jain, Shawn Schowe, and Haydee Ramirez published their work recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in collaboration with their mentor Dr. Marino Resendiz and others. See link here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2317865121

About a third of cancer patients struggle with depression, anxiety and other psychiatric disorders, although these conditions often go undetected and undiagnosed. Kristin Kilbourn, a clinical psychologist at the University of Colorado Denver, said oncologists often don’t want to open up this “can of worms,” not to mention that mental...

When we need a helping hand, we sometimes need to seek assistance from our local government and community. We asked a panel of experts for their ideas on how cities can provide the care that residents need and address other significant challenges. 

Dr. Otañez (anthropology) and Dr. Aaraón Díaz Mendiburo, Centro de Investigaciones sobre América del Norte (CISAN) Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México published a co-edited collection of four books Breaking Stigmas: Art and Cannabis in North America. The books cover activism, public/private spaces, storytelling, film, television, imagery, and music. CISAN is...

US universities have been emailing international students and staff advising them to return to campus before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January, amid concerns over his plans for mass deportations. "All international students are worried right now," University of Colorado Denver professor Chloe East told the BBC. Trump, a...

The Denver City Council just made it a lot easier to build accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, in neighborhoods across the city. The biggest change: Homeowners won’t have to get a rezoning before building a cottage or other accessory dwelling. The change could result in a few hundred more ADUs...

Public health insurance programs are increasingly being implemented worldwide, placing significant demands on public finances. However, there is limited evidence on their long-term effects. This project aims to fill this gap by studying Mexico’s Seguro Popular, a program that provided public health insurance to nearly half of the country’s population....

Chemistry students/researchers (Vi Tho Vy Nguyen, Haydee Ramirez, Brody Reynolds), from the lab of Prof. Marino Resendiz, were selected for poster and oral presentations at the RNA Canada 2024 conference in Ottawa, Canada.

In addition, chemistry students/researchers (Vincent Conrad Oppenheimer and Vi Tho Vy Nguyen), from the lab of Prof....

"However, these houses are not classified as real estate but as personal property, and that means they have fewer protections,” said Esther Sullivan, an associate sociology professor at the University of Colorado in Denver and author of the book “Manufactured Insecurity: Mobile Home Parks and Americans’ Tenuous Right to Place.”...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to conduct “the largest deportation effort in American history,” no matter the price tag—but the economic costs of such a campaign may be bigger than he has bargained for. 

At the core of this social trust were institutions, like the Post Office, that for Blevins represent the veritable cartilage and guts of the nation. “The US Post,” he says, “is a model of what an effective government could be.” The Postal Service most certainly stayed close to the expanding republic....

Dr. Andrew Scahill of the CU Denver English Department, was recently highlighted on 9News, where interviewers asked about his work as a film professor and celebrating two years of Rainbow Cult, which has evolved from its origins as a backyard movie night offered by Dr Scahill, to selling out shows at Meow...

Expelling noncitizens on a mass scale is likely to raise prices on goods and services and lower employment rates for U.S. workers, many economists say.

Adjunctification is a peer-reviewed journal by and for contingent faculty in higher education. We publish scholarship produced by non-tenure track faculty, including instructors, lecturers, adjuncts, research associates, graduate teaching assistants, etc. The inaugural issue was published in August 2024 and the call is now open for submissions to the second...