Deans Notes - November 2024 Edition

Assistant Professor Gabriela DeRobles teaches several courses in the Modern Languages Department at CU Denver, but if you ask her students, her classes are about much more than language. “I don’t think I would have gone after my master’s degree, and I know I wouldn’t have even made it through...

Ableism may look like:

• Lack of Compliance: With disability laws and resistance to providing accommodations that make educational, workplace, and social settings accessible to all.
• Making
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Chandler Stark, who graduated in 2022 with an MA from the History Department, has been appointed the Gary Sinise Foundation Oral Historian at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.

As an MA student at CU Denver, Chandler focused on the histories of US Foreign Policy...

Economists at the University of Colorado Denver, studied the deportations carried out by the Bush and Obama administrations between 2008 and 2014. They found that, for every one million unauthorized workers expelled from the U.S., 88,000 American workers lost their jobs. 

That is because immigrant workers in certain industries such...

“Maybe it’s because of the nice, sanitized way in which we consume sport as an audience,” says Sarah Fields, who studies how sports intersects with American culture. She says sports thrive on “our innate, maybe human desire — but certainly American desire — for fairness.”

“It’s a standardized field with...

During this Fall 2024 Semester, English Instructor Matthew Jellick— working with the International College of Beijing (ICB) program in Beijing, China— started a Book Club for students. The group read Gabrielle Zevin’s novel Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow.

Meeting bi-weekly at a local coffeehouse in Beijing, students and faculty discussions revolve around complex character development as well as...

Jennifer Hathaway won the student poster contest at GIS in the Rockies (http://gisintherockies.org/), a local conference for GIS professionals. The poster is part of her thesis work examining queer women spaces in the 1970s and today.

For the map of 1970s, Hathaway used a 1956 zoning map, digitized by...

The field of communication is celebrating the profound contributions of Dr. Sonja K. Foss, Professor Emeritus of Communication at the University of Colorado Denver.

Dr. Foss was the founding chair of the Department of Communication at the International College Beijing in 1999.

Since joining the National Communication Association (NCA) in...

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. Her thyroid cancer had progressed to the point where she was having trouble breathing, and...

Empowering Voices: Leveraging Storytelling to Support First-Gen Lynxes 

This PD workshop is meant for faculty and staff to better support first-generation students at CU Denver using storytelling as a vehicle to promote student success.

Friday, November 8, 2024
10-11:30am Mountain Time

• In person: Room 3301 CU Denver Building
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Don't miss out! Save your spot now for the next CLAS MixTape. RSVP today!

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

Our award-winning CLAS...

Please join us for a panel discussion in our Languages & Linguistics Speaker Series

Explore Linguistic Diversity: Learn how languages around the world shape societies, cultures, and identities.

Research Journeys Unveiled: Discover what motivates linguists in their diverse fields of study.

Pathways to Linguistics: Hear the personal stories of how...

Former Denver City Councilwoman Robin Kniech  has joined CU Denver Political Science’s New Directions in Politics & Public Policy  program and will be hosting a conversation about Denver's housing crisis. Bring your lunch and learn how Denver’s role in affordable housing has transformed over the past decade, even as it...

Join us for a celebration of CU Denver undergraduate students and climate justice research. Learn about their experiences, including presenting at a major conference and lessons learned for interdisciplinary STEM initiatives for social and health equity.

Dr. Ivan J. Ramírez, CU Denver Department of Health & Behavioral Sciences, will...

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