Spotlight

Sara Yeatman, Professor in the Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences, was an academic visitor at the University of Oxford’s Leverhulme Center for Demographic Science and Nuffield College for three days in early February. Among other activities, Yeatman gave a talk entitled, “The impact of access to contraception on women’s...

Along with Conrado Zuluaga Osorio (from Bogotá, Colombia) Professor of Ibero-American Literatures and Cultures in the Department of Modern Languages Andrés Lema-Hincapié hosts Viajes Al Libro (Book Journeys), a podcast in Spanish . Join the hosts as they travel through books from different languages and cultures, from different geographies and...

Commerce City recently announced the hiring of Darrel Guadnola as the city’s next chief of police. Guadnola got his BA in Political Science from CU Denver in 1997 and holds master’s degrees in both Business Administration and Management from Regis University with a graduate certificate in Executive Leadership. A lifelong...

The American Philosophy Association (APA) Central Meeting is coming to Denver on March 23-25, 2023. Denver Philosophy Department Chair Sarah Tyson and Professor Candice Shelby will be participating and inviting students to come to take part in their symposiums by listening to their moderated discussions or others discussing a variety...

There are about 700 regularly publishing literary journals in America—and each year a writer and blogger named Clifford Garstang ranks them based on how often work from their pages is reprinted in the prestigious annual Pushcart Prize Anthology. Since the Copper Nickel was relaunched it has been climbing Garstang's rankings,...

Assistant Professor of History Rachel Gross, Clinical Associate Professor of History Cameron Blevins and Associate Professor of English Michelle Comstock all recently won a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to pursue a digital walking tour and curriculum project related to Auraria's history. Recovering Auraria’s Past: Building a Digital...

Alejandro Lucero, who just graduated in December with a degree in English–Creative Writing, has had his poetry chapbook, Sapello Son , accepted for publication by Bull City Press , a nationally renowned poetry press out of Durham, North Carolina. A "chapbook" is a poetry collection roughly one third to one...

Drew Horton won first prize for the recent OR/MS Tomorrow mini poster competition . His poster is titled, ``The Impact of Considering Equity in Optimization for Urban Planning.” This equity related research was advised by Emily Speakman. The OR/MS Tomorrow mini poster competition, supported by the Seth Bonder Foundation, seeks...

This month, Americans for the Arts welcomed Theo Edmonds, Directing Co-Founder of the Imaginator Academy and Research Associate Professor in the Masters of Humanities and Social Sciences, to its board of directors. Edmonds is a Culture Futurist™ and innovator with 25 years of senior-level strategic national and international leadership experience...

The Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy (SAAP) will be holding its annual conference this year in Denver, from March 9 th - March 11, 2023, and the Philosophy Department at CU Denver is looking for students to participate and volunteer at the conference. Interested parties can contact the...