Spotlight

View a list of staff who received Shout Outs here! This year, the CLAS Staff Council put a new program into place to help recognize the contributions of staff across the college. Everyone was invited to submit the name of a staff member who makes the college a great place...

Undergraduates, majoring in Public Health, Integrative Biology as well as Architectural Studies and Criminal Justice, delivered inspirational presentations (virtual) at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting in April. A wide range of interdisciplinary topics were presented, including El Niño disaster risk reduction (Stefanie Varghese, Luis Vargas, Ruth Hundie),...

The Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences celebrated the 30 th anniversary of its doctoral program on Friday, May 3.

CLAS Faculty Faye Caronan (Associate Dean of Faculty and Staff Affairs in CLAS and Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies) and Julien Langou (Professor of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences) attend the Denver Public Schools Foundation's Achieve Gala 2024. Congratulations to DPS for the successful fundraiser!

Abigail Chiu, a second-year master's student in Chemistry, has earned recognition with an honorable mention from the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP). This prestigious program supports outstanding graduate students pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees in STEM fields. Abigail has achieved notable milestones in her academic...

Anthropology graduate students, along with Associate Professor Marty Otañez, presented at the Society of Applied Anthropology Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico in March. The students included: Mac Ervin, an undergraduate Anthropology student, who presented on “‘Psilocybin is like a lantern in the forest that shows you the path forward’:...

Jamie Hodgkins, Associate Professor of Anthropology, published an article in Quaternary Science Reviews on Late Pleistocene prey mobility and its implications for Neandertal ranging behaviors. You can read the entire article here.

The Chemistry Department will once again host the highly successful Teachers' Summer Research Program in partnership with Cherry Creek High School (CCHS) in summer 2024, funded by National Science Foundation. “The program hosts math or science teachers from CCHS each summer, who will work together on a small side-project to...

Sara Branco, Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology, is the senior author of a paper in New Phytologist , a leading journal in plant science. The publication is an important contribution that points out the need for genus-level model systems for studying the ecology and evolution of plant mutualistic fungi and...

Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences Alumni Assume Leadership Positions at the National Geospatial Technical Operations Center. The alumni--NGTOC Director, Kim Mantey, Deputy Director Hannah Boggs, and Associate of Operations--met with Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland during her recent visit to the Rolla, MO site.