Spotlight

The university is now nearly halfway through the strategic planning process. Eight vision teams are currently generating innovative ideas to differentiate CU Denver across different focus areas and drive it to greater levels of success by 2030. To inform their thinking, the teams are engaging the community for input and...

Economics Associate Professor Hani Mansour and Professor Daniel Rees recently published research with Bryson Rintala (currently a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air force and the first Ph.D. student to graduate from our program) along with Nathan Wozny (from the U.S. Air Force Academy). “ The Effects of Professor Gender...

Michael Kilman, Instructor in the anthropology department, along with anthropologist Kyra Wellstrom recently published the book Build Better Worlds: An Introduction to Anthropology for Game Designers, Fiction Writers, and Filmmakers . The book features core concepts of real cultures to help readers understand how cultural systems work. What makes cultures...

Mobility and Migration in Ancient Mesoamerican Cities , edited by Associate Professor of Anthropology Christopher Beekman (with M. Charlotte Arnauld and Grégory Pereira) is the first focused, book-length discussion of migration in central Mexico, west Mexico and the Maya region. Looking beyond the conceptual dichotomy of sedentism versus mobility, the...

March 25, 3:30-5pm, ZOOM All undergraduate and graduate CLAS students are encouraged to be a part of this virtual, interdisciplinary conference organized to share ideas about activisms in the COVID era. Selected speakers will win a $250 scholarship. Six speakers will be selected to give flash presentations on what activisms...

An annual award within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the CLAS Outstanding Staff Award recognizes a single staff member who demonstrates outstanding leadership, ability, initiative and/or achievement. These contributions must provide a significant benefit specifically for CLAS at the downtown Denver campus. The recipient will receive a $500...

All members of the University of Colorado educational community are eligible for a new Open Educational Resource Champion Award. Open Educational Resources (OER) are “teaching, learning, and research materials that are either (a) in the public domain or (b) licensed in a manner that provides everyone with free and perpetual...

Stephanie A. Santorico, Mathematical and Statistical Science Professor and Interim Associate Dean for Research and Creative Activities, recently launched a course on the platform Coursera on how genetics relates to human health (and therefore disease). The course is for medical, health, and public health professional and trainee learners who will...

Andrea Velásquez, Assistant Professor of Economics, discusses her research on how crime affects risk aversion .

Integrative Biology Associate Professor Brian Buma recently coauthored a Tamm Review on the effects of salvage logging in forests around the world . Tamm reviews are an invited, high-profile series of reviews on rapidly changing topics of interest worldwide. Salvage logging is when disturbed forests, like post-fire or post-beetle trees,...