Spotlight

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...

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,...

Congratulations to students in CU Denver’s Public Health BA/BS program who presented research and won awards at The 2024 Research and Creative Activities Symposium (RaCAS) on April 26. Maleeha K. Shah was the recipient of the President’s Sustainability Solutions: Policy, Society and Community Award for a project entitled, “Maternal Mental...

View a list of staff who received Shout Outs here! This year, the CLAS Staff Council put a new program into place to help recognize the contributions of staff across the college. Everyone was invited to submit the name of a staff member who makes the college a great place...

Undergraduates, majoring in Public Health, Integrative Biology as well as Architectural Studies and Criminal Justice, delivered inspirational presentations (virtual) at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting in April. A wide range of interdisciplinary topics were presented, including El Niño disaster risk reduction (Stefanie Varghese, Luis Vargas, Ruth Hundie),...

The Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences celebrated the 30 th anniversary of its doctoral program on Friday, May 3.

CLAS Faculty Faye Caronan (Associate Dean of Faculty and Staff Affairs in CLAS and Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies) and Julien Langou (Professor of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences) attend the Denver Public Schools Foundation's Achieve Gala 2024. Congratulations to DPS for the successful fundraiser!

Abigail Chiu, a second-year master's student in Chemistry, has earned recognition with an honorable mention from the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP). This prestigious program supports outstanding graduate students pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees in STEM fields. Abigail has achieved notable milestones in her academic...

Anthropology graduate students, along with Associate Professor Marty Otañez, presented at the Society of Applied Anthropology Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico in March. The students included: Mac Ervin, an undergraduate Anthropology student, who presented on “‘Psilocybin is like a lantern in the forest that shows you the path forward’:...

Jamie Hodgkins, Associate Professor of Anthropology, published an article in Quaternary Science Reviews on Late Pleistocene prey mobility and its implications for Neandertal ranging behaviors. You can read the entire article here.