Deans Notes - June 2021

History Associate Professor Christopher Agee studies the history of policing, and says pumping money into police budgets over the last few decades hasn’t produced better police.

KUER-FM, May 12

Assistant Integrative Biology Professor Brian Buma's explorations and research in southern Cape Horn were featured in National Geographic Magazine last month, highlighting the finding and documentation of the world's southernmost trees. These forests grow on the inhospitable island of Isla Hornos, one of the top 10 windiest places in the...

Hailey B. Dennis, Biology Pre-Med Major and Student Assistant in the Dean’s Office, recently wrote an editorial on and testified in support of House Bill 21-1317. The bill unanimously passed in the first committee. Dennis is working to foster awareness for the THC potency research and cannabis culture...

Early in Denver’s history, working-class neighborhoods tended to have higher KKK membership rates because those people were more likely to live near or work with immigrants, Jews, Catholics and Blacks, said Tom Noel, Professor of History, during a discussion hosted by History Colorado.

The KKK ruled Denver a...

Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Founding Dean of CLAS, Daniel Fallon recently published a new book, Love's Legacy: Viscount Chateaubriand and the Irish Girl. This work of academic scholarship, told in first person as an investigative mystery, explores Chateaubriand's secret sponsorship of the author's great-great-grandfather, Thomas Fallon, to a...

Professor of Communication Stephen J. Hartnett just published a new book, A World of Turmoil: The United States, China, and Taiwan in the Long Cold War. The United States, the People’s Republic of China, and Taiwan have danced on the knife’s edge of war for more than seventy years....

Erik Lucero, Applied Physics Alum, was recently featured on The Artisan podcast for the episode The Art within Quantum Computing. Lucero is now one of the top scientists in Google's Quantum Computing (hardware) division, and an accomplished amateur photographer.

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 awarded...

Opening celebration Thursday, June 17, 6 – 8 p.m.
Emmanuel Art Gallery, 1205 10th St. Plaza

Denver-based, Korean-American artist Sammy Lee's solo exhibition explores motherhood, domesticity, immigration, and Asian prejudice.

Mental Health First Aid is a skills-based training course that teaches participants about mental health and substance-use issues. Just as CPR helps assist an individual having a heart attack, Mental Health First Aid helps assist someone experiencing a mental health or substance use-related crisis. In this course participants learn risk...

1:00pm - 3:00pm

Moving from an individual contributor (the doer) to a lead/management position requires new skills, motivations, perspectives, responsibilities, and impact to the organization. This seminar helps identify key skills for communicating to others. 

The goal of the CU Denver Data Symposium is to bring data scientists across CU Denver and the Denver area together to discuss data science efforts and build community among data scientists on campus. The agenda will include a focus on education, research, and industry uses for data-driven science.

Arrangements...