Awards and Accolades

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.

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...

Assistant Professor of Economics Andrea Velasquez is a 2023-2024 awardee of The University of Chicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society . Each year, this award is given to a diverse range of interdisciplinary faculty research projects that address critical issues. The Neubauer Collegium is committed to the idea that...

English Instructor Alexander Lumans recently won a National Endowment for the Arts grant which will help fund the writing his first novel, about a female Norwegian Polar Guard working in the Arctic Circle in the near future. Lumans has been working on the book for about 2 years so far,...

Karen Fennell, Executive Assistant to Dean Pamela Jansma, recently won the Achiever Award at the Denver Metro Admin Awards . The Achiever Award recognizes the high performing Administrative Professional that successfully performs difficult tasks and solves challenging problems day after day as a result of their resourcefulness and relentless perseverance.

Assistant Professor of Political Science Betcy Jose was awarded the 2018 Brodie Prize by the journal of Contemporary Security Policy . The Journal editors award the Bernard Brodie Prize annually to the author(s) of the most outstanding article published in the journal the previous year. Jose won for her article,...

Associate Professor of English Amy Vidali was awarded the Kenneth Bruffee Award , an annual award for the best scholarship on writing programs. The article, "Disabling Writing Program Administration," traces how disability figures in the prolific narratives of those who run writing programs. Vidali identifies how anxiety and depression often...

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) recently selected 24 schools in the first round of the Inclusive Excellence initiative. This program aims to help increase the capacity of colleges and universities to effectively engage all students so that they can be successful in science, especially undergraduates who enter four-year institutions...

English Associate Professor Wayne Miller’s 2016 poetry collection, titled Post- (Milkweed Editions, 2016), has won the Rilke Prize —a $10,000 national award given by the University of North Texas to the best poetry collection published by a "mid-career" poet in the previous calendar year.