Spotlight

Professor, Chair of English, and Editor of Copper Nickel, Wayne Miller, recently had his poem " Parable of Childhood" featured as the "encore" on the podcast The Slowdown , hosted by US Poet Laureate Ada Limón (episode 559).

The CU Denver Ethics Bowl team is rebuilding after a two-year hiatus brought on by COVID. The team competed on November 12, against sixteen teams in the region, and our students acquitted themselves admirably. Ethics Bowl debate is a civil, nuanced discussion by teams prepared to take a position on...

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences selected the following students for the Fall 2022 Outstanding Awards: Yusura Ali, BA Anthropology Christian Olivencia, BS Psychology Marisa Westbrook, PhD Health and Behavioral Science Chantelle Wilkerson, MA Political Science Zoe Erkenbeck, MS Integrative Biology

Impactful research done by Anthropology Graduate Program Director and Professor Charles M. Musiba on the evolution of bipedal walking and the Laetoli footprints was recently featured in Scientific American: Fossils Upend Conventional Wisdom about Evolution of Human Bipedalism .

Assistant Professor in English Kari Campeau recently published a new article reporting on findings from a study supported by her New Faculty Grant from the Office of Research Services. This article, “Vaccination double bind: A study of pregnancy and COVID-19 vaccine decision-making.” (in Rhetoric Society Quarterly ), comes from the...

Ivan J. Ramírez, Clinical Assistant Professor of Health and Behavioral Sciences (HBS), and Carolina Jaime, HBS PhD student, recently traveled to Perú to reconnect and establish research collaborations with universities (Universidad del Pacifíco) and governmental institutions, such as the Ministry of Health (CDC Perú) and Geophysics Institute of Perú (IGP)...

The Jean Dreyfus Lectureship for Undergraduate Institutions program recently announced seven new grantees, and the CU Denver Chemistry Department was among the winners. The awards provide an $18,500 grant to bring a leading researcher to a primarily undergraduate institution to give at least two lectures and to substantively interact with...

As we get towards the fall break and colder months, the campus food pantry is typically more frequently visited by our students. As a result, there are times when the food pantry must limit the amount of food taken from the pantry. To prevent this from happening, CLAS staff have...

Sarah Horton, Professor and Graduate Program Director for the Department of Anthropology, recently published an article based on interviews conducted with undocumented Mexican immigrants about their pandemic eldercare burdens. “ Praying for More Time: Mexican Immigrants’ Pandemic Eldercare Dilemmas ,” published in Medical Anthropology Quarterly , details how they struggled...

Communication Department, Professor Sarah K. Fields, was inducted as a Fellow in the National Academy of Kinesiology (NAK) on October 1. Fields became the 616 th domestic Fellow since the NAK was founded in 1926, and only 200 active fellows may exist at any time. A standout in her induction...