Ericka Wills, New Directions Lecturer for Labor Leadership, recently received the Robert F. Kennedy Labor Champion Award at the Southern Colorado Labor Council dinner in Pueblo in recognition of her contributions to the labor movement.

Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Sciences Gregory Simon was recently selected for the EPA’s Office of Research and Development Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC), a federal advisory committee. Members of the BOSC constitute a distinguished body of non-EPA scientists, engineers, and economists who are experts in their respective fields...

Preterm birth is a leading cause of neonatal mortality and is characterized by substantial racial disparities in the US. Despite efforts to reduce preterm birth, rates have risen and racial disparities persist. Recent Anthropology alum Gabriella Mayne and other researchers recently published "Understanding and Reducing Persistent Racial Disparities in Preterm...

Laura Meyers will be honored this month for her role as a founding member of the Arizona State University COVID-19 Case Investigation and Community Response Team. The team’s student and staff workforce provide support to the Maricopa County Department of Public Health by interviewing cases, or individuals who tested positive...

Kari Campeau, Assistant Professor of English, published in the latest Technical Communication Quarterly : “ It Makes Everything Just Another Story”: A Mixed Methods Study of Medical Storytelling on GoFundMe .” The article presents findings from an interview- and text-based study about writing and storytelling on medical crowdfunding platforms and...

Philosophy Professor Robert Metcalf and undergraduate student Kelly Tannenbaum will be attending the American Philosophical Association (APA) 2022 Pacific Division Meeting, from April 13 th through the 16 th , in Vancouver, BC. Both have been invited to give presentations on their research – Metcalf will comment on Andrew G...

Share your story related to being a Black, Indigenous, and/or Person of Color (BIPOC) student, staff, and faculty member at the University of Colorado Denver. A new 2-day Digital Storytelling Workshop on the Auraria campus has 12 open positions available for CU Denver community members who self-identify as BIPOC. The...

The CLAS Staff Council invites your nominations for Outstanding Staff in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to be recognized for excellence in service and engagement on behalf of the College in the categories listed below. Please read the details of the eligibility criteria for each award and the...

Clinical Associate Professor of History Cameron Blevins’s book Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West has been selected as winner of the Outstanding Non-Fiction category for the 2022 Western Heritage Awards . Known as the “Oscars of the West,” the Western Heritage Awards honors individuals...

Alicia Cowart, Director of the Geospatial Analysis & Mapping Laboratory, was recently accepted as a UCGIS TRELIS fellow. UCGIS is the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science and TRELIS ( T raining and Re taining L eaders i n S tem) is a professional development network for women in the...