Deans Notes - September 2024 Edition

CLAS MarCom's new 90-Day Action Plan launches this month, bringing a new way for you to submit requests for service, Deans' Notes, and more foundation-building initiatives.

In fall 2023, Dr. Resendiz was granted a renewal of his R15 grant (2R15GM132816-02) to pursue projects on the impact of 8-oxoG on the structure of RNA.

Sara Branco (Assistant Professor, Integrative Biology) received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute for Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) to support SPORES, a mentorship program for underrepresented undergraduate students. This project is a collaboration with Clark University, Purdue University, and...

Dr. Jamie Hodgkins and co-investigator Dr. Caley Orr talk about the discovery of a 10,000-year-old female infant burial in Italy.

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.

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

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.

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,...

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

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

Hanna Lewis serves as the Director of the Disability Resources and Services office. She began at CU Denver in October 2023. Hanna has extensive experience providing reasonable accommodations and support for students with disabilities, as well as disability/accommodation support for her university partners. Hanna is a licensed social worker,...

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 assessment of 3...

Department of Communication Professor and Chair, Hamilton Bean, has a new volume out published by Naval Institute Press. Nimitz's Newsman: Waldo Drake and the Navy's Censored War in the Pacific reveals the inside story of the rise of Navy public relations in World War II.

“The economy is not a zero-sum game,” said Chloe East, an economist at the University of Colorado Denver who focuses on immigration policy. “When one person has a job, that does not mean one less job for somebody else.”

A new study demonstrating that matching sets of dinosaur footprints were found on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean was published in tribute to Lockley, who devoted his career to studying dinosaur footprints.

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...

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 to...

Funded by the Obama Foundation, the Voyager Scholarship Program is a two-year, leadership development and scholarship program. William is the only student in the state of Colorado to receive the scholarship this year.

To help kick off the fall semester, CU Denver now has a one-stop-shop CU Denver Election website for all things election, public policy discussion, and civic engagement. You can find voter resources, a campus civic engagement calendar, a curated list of CU Denver experts, links to topical CU Denver media...

Boulder Weekly highlights Associate Professor Marty Otañez's fascinating study on how the legalization of psychedelics for therapeutic use in Colorado affects BIPOC and low-income populations, as most individuals in clinical trials as well as those profiting from the psychedelic medical industry are white.

The Chemistry Department at CU Denver recently played a pivotal role in the success of the ACS (American Chemical Society) Kids Zone event that was held on Saturday, 8/17/24 at the Lola and Rob Salazar Student Wellness Center while the ACS National Meeting was being held at the Colorado Convention...

Dr. Susan M. Schelble, a CU Denver Chemistry faculty member, was named one of the 37 new fellows of the American Chemical Society (ACS) at the Fall 2024 ACS National Meeting in Denver on August 19, 2024. Dr. Schelble was recognized as an impactful 31-year professor of organic chemistry and...