Associate Professor and Chair of Health and Behavioral Science Sara Yeatman recently co-published, “ The impact of contraceptive access on high school graduation ” in Science Advances, the Magazine of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The research team used a natural experiment afforded by a 2009 Colorado...

Jordan Truitt (BA Geography, December of 2020) recently presented his undergraduate honors thesis findings at both the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) and at the International Association of Landscape Ecology North American meeting. Truitt performed a critical review of the stakeholder engagement and Monitoring & Evaluation...

Environmental Justice Is for You and Me is a Spanish-English-language bilingual children’s book that introduces young readers to the concept of justicia ambiental (environmental justice). This collaborative work includes the intergenerational energies of coauthors Assistant Professor of Communication Catalina de Onís, anthropologist Dr. Hilda Lloréns, her child Khalil, and student...

The Enhanced Lifestyles for Metabolic Syndrome (ELM) study is a 2-year research study comparing two lifestyle programs with the goal to improve health and reverse the metabolic syndrome. Led by Psychology Professor Kevin Masters , the study is seeking people who are 18 years or older and who meet three...

The CU Denver Interdisciplinary Studies Council invites all students in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences to submit a research paper that draws upon scholarly insights and/or research methods from multiple academic fields. In addition, papers that apply disciplinary knowledge to a topic or issue not traditionally associated with...

A research paper written by Ananta Nair for a class for the Masters of Integrated Sciences program has been published in a leading artificial intelligence blog, Towards Data Science . The paper argues that to build artificial general intelligence we must first understand how intelligence arises, and covers the mechanisms...

Graduate student in Biological Anthropology, Gabby Mayne, recently had great success in four different rounds of 3-minute thesis competition talks for her presentation, "Birth: What's Love Got to Do With It?" She received second place in the statewide competition of the Colorado Council of Graduate Students, after receiving 2 nd...

1992 Alum of the English Writing Program, Catherine Wallace Hope, author of the novel Once Again , is pleased to have been selected as a finalist for the Colorado Book Awards . Her on-line reading will take place at 7:00pm on May 5, and anyone interested in attending can register...

The joint English and Philosophy podcast, CultureKlatsch , just released a new episode (Season 2, Episode 4) featuring English Associate Professor Rodney Herring and focused on the changing nature of media discourse around celebrities – particularly as it pertains to the recent NY Times’ documentary on Brittney Spears. Please have a listen and subscribe!

Murphy F. Robinson, III (MA '15 in Political Science, New Directions Program), was recently named to the Denver Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 List for 2021 . Robinson is the Executive Director of the Department of Public Safety and the Deputy Mayor for the City and County of Denver. He...