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Climate Justice Cafe: Elevating Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Research

Nov. 5, 2024

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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Geography and Environmental Sciences Student Wins Poster Contest at GIS in the Rockies

Nov. 5, 2024

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...

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Andrea Velasquez featured live on ABC News

Where Trump, Harris stand on immigration and what's at stake in the election

Nov. 5, 2024

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CU Denver’s Quantum Programs Featured in New Report on Preparing the Workforce of Tomorrow from CU Boulder

Nov. 5, 2024

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Communication Field Recognizes Dr. Sonja K Foss for Lifetime Impact on Communication Studies

Communication Field Recognizes Dr. Sonja K Foss for Lifetime Impact on Communication Studies

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...

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More Than A Lesson Plan: Assistant Professor Gabriela DeRobles Creates Impact Through Connections

More Than A Lesson Plan: Assistant Professor Gabriela DeRobles Creates Impact Through Connections

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...

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Prof. Woonghee Lee (left) and his “POKY” team members: Zowier Werner, Fatima Mustaffa, Karen Pham, Abigail Chiu, Qingxuan Fei (right)

Chemistry Professor Woonghee Lee receives NSF grant to develop state-of-the-art artificial intelligence-assisted NMR platform

Sept. 30, 2024

Assistant Professor Woonghee Lee in the department of chemistry has just been awarded an NSF grant to further the state-of-the-art computational tool “POKY” for automation of data analysis for biomolecular nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Dr. Lee released the POKY software suite in 2021, which has been distributed to more...

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New CU Denver Rankings Webpage

Sept. 30, 2024

CU Denver's Media Relations team launches a new webpage highlighting schools, colleges, and other programs latest rankings by media outlets.

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Research by Economists East, Mansour, and Velasquez on Immigration Enforcement Featured in the NYT

Sept. 27, 2024

Clemens cited a separate study, “The Labor Market Effects of Immigration Enforcement” by the economists Chloe N. East, Annie Hines, Philip Luck, Hani Mansour and Andrea Velásquez, which digs into a 2008 to ’14 initiative called Secure Communities. The program was conducted during the administrations of George W. Bush and...

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Inaugural Edition of Adjunctification - a Journal Amplifying Voices of Contingent Faculty - Launches

Sept. 27, 2024

The inaugural edition of Adjunctification , a journal amplifying the voices of contingent faculty, has launched, with immense gratitude to the Colorado Department of Higher Education Open Educational Resources Grant Program for their support. Led by instructors across diverse disciplines and experiences, the journal publishes research on pedagogical challenges, program...

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