Deans Notes - October 2024 Edition

Associate Professor Jung-Jae Lee in the Department of Chemistry received an Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA/R15) grant from the NIH to support research in advance cancer detection and improve surgical precision using innovative glowing nanoprobes inspired by fireflies.

The nanoprobes are specifically designed to target head and neck cancers, with the goal...

Assistant Professor Woonghee Lee in the department of chemistry has just been awarded an NSF grant to further the state-of-the-art computational tool “POKY” for automation of data analysis for biomolecular nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Dr. Lee released the POKY software suite in 2021, which has been distributed to more...

From Research.Com: We distinguished University of Colorado Denver for its outstanding achievements in education. This award is a testament to the institution's dedication to academic excellence and student satisfaction with their programs.

Starting Fall 2024, the CU Denver Chemistry Department is excited to launch the new “Data Science and Chemistry” graduate certificate program. 

The ability to analyze and interpret the ever-growing volume of chemical data is a critical skill in high demand. In fact, job postings in this field have...

Masters was introduced by Jaime Lizárraga, the Commissioner of the SEC with final remarks by Jessica Wachter the Chief Economist and Director of the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA) at the SEC. Using a webinar format, the moderator asked a number of questions regarding prayer and health that Masters addressed...

Dr. Fischer recently published a pedagogy article on “Trans of Color Histories, Visibility, and Violence in The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson” in Films for the Feminist Classroom (Issue 12.2, Summer 2024). Reflecting on teaching her upper-level seminar COMM/WGST 4660/5660 Queer Media Studies here at CU...

In the past two years, students in Dr. Peter Kopp's museum studies and public history courses have collaborated with members of East High School's Museum Club (along with teacher Matt Fulford, a CU Denver alum) to catalog historical objects and curate a series of exhibits in the school's foyer. Graduate...

CU Denver News Featured Assistant Professor Katharine Kelsey, PhD, who leads a research project on how temperature change, flooding, and salinity can change ecosystems worldwide.

CU Denver's Media Relations team launches a new webpage highlighting schools, colleges, and other programs latest rankings by media outlets.

The Animals and Society Section of the American Sociological Association awarded Associate Teaching Professor, Dr. Jenny Vermilya, their 2024 Distinguished Book Award for her book Identity, Gender, and Tracking: The Reality of Boundaries for Veterinary Students, published in 2022 by Purdue University Press.

Clemens cited a separate study, “The Labor Market Effects of Immigration Enforcement” by the economists Chloe N. East, Annie Hines, Philip Luck, Hani Mansour and Andrea Velásquez, which digs into a 2008 to ’14 initiative called Secure Communities. The program was conducted during the administrations of George W. Bush and...

CU Denver News Feature: William Navarrete Moreno can’t forget a call that would change his life. He was a fifth grader when he got a call from his mother, an immigrant from Mexico, who was at the emergency room.

Disability is...

A physical or mental condition that substantially limits or interferes with a major life activity including independent living, education, employment, and social/interpersonal interactions.

Types of Disabilities:

• Mobility and Physical – Spinal cord injuries, amputation, arthritis
• Sensory – Blindness, deafness
• Cognitive, Intellectual, & Learning Disorders – ADHD, ASD,
...

The inaugural edition of Adjunctification, a journal amplifying the voices of contingent faculty, launched with immense gratitude to the Colorado Department of Higher Education Open Educational Resources Grant Program for their support.

Led by instructors across diverse disciplines and experiences, the journal publishes research on pedagogical challenges, program...

Based on years of archival research at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library, Stephen J. Hartnett from the Department of Communication has published “‘Something Uniquely Sinister in U.S. History’: New Evidence on the Truman Administration’s 1951 Investigation into the China Lobby,” in Presidential Studies Quarterly 54:3 (September 2024):...

Last spring, Gabriel Finkelstein spoke at two foreign conferences. On March 15, 2024 he delivered the keynote address to the 33rd annual History of Medicine Days at the University of Calgary, where he also served as judge and committee chair. 

Then on May 31, 2024, he gave a...

Technological Transformations: Investigating the Tones of Change
Friday, November 15
11 am -12:15 pm
Student Commons 2600 + https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/94816603661

Please join our award-winning CLAS faculty members Soumia Bardhan, Cameron...

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