The CLAS Staff Development Fund was allocated by Dean Jansma to aid staff in furthering their skills and career goals. CLAS staff may request up to $500 per-person in funding for conferences, events, trainings, or other activities that will further their professional goals and job skills. All current CLAS staff...

EURēCA! Student Assistants is an introductory program that leverages federal-work study dollars and grant funds to provide entry-level salary support to undergraduates new to the research and creative enterprise. This program is cost-free for CU Denver faculty. The Faculty Application to host a EURēCA! Student Assistant this Spring is now...

The OpenCU group (a CU system group advocating for Open Educational Resources and Open Pedagogy) are currently accepting applications for the University of Colorado OER Champion Award. An OER Champion is someone who uses OER or OP in their teaching regularly for its cost savings, its accessibility, its inclusionary practices...

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is currently soliciting nominations for the Outstanding Master’s and Doctoral Student Awards. Departments may nominate one individual to a master’s category (MA/MHUM or MS/MSS/MIS) and one individual to the Doctoral category. Nominees must be eligible to graduate this semester. Students who will graduate...

CLAS Dissemination Grants support faculty to engage in activities that promote their research and creative work and enhance the profile of the College and University. This award supports travel to disseminate research findings and creative work or assist with publication expenses. Applications are due on March 11, 2022. See the...

Alum and former Outstanding CLAS Graduate Student Elizabeth Pansing and Integrative Biology Professor Diana Tomback are part of a team that recently published the paper, " Limitations to Propagule Dispersal Will Constrain Postfire Recovery of Plants and Fungi in Western Coniferous Forests ” in the high impact journal, BioScience ...

Assistant Professor of Health and Behavioral Sciences Ivan Ramirez recently published “ Deconstructing the spatial effects of El Niño and vulnerability on cholera rates in Peru: Wavelet and GIS Analyses ” in Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology . This retrospective research yields new insights about epidemic cholera during the 1990s in...

English Professor Wayne Miller received a $10,000 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship to support his collaborative translation of the short story collection Sellers Of Chaos by the Albanian writer Moikom Zeqo.

Vance Harris, Geography and Environmental Sciences 2020 alum, had his first research publication in the journal Frontiers in Forests and Global Change , “ Small-Area Estimation for the USDA Forest Service, National Woodland Owner Survey: Creating a Fine-Scale Land Cover and Ownership Layer to Support County-Level Population Estimates concerning utilizing...

Professor of Psychology and CU President’s Teaching Scholar Mitch Handelsman won the 2021 Ethics Educator Award from the American Psychological Association Ethics Committee. The award recognizes "outstanding contributions to ethics education and psychology."