Spotlight

Clayton Buck, Master’s Student in Sociology, is being honored for Distinguished Service. Michael Hinke, Interim Director and Information Technology Coordinator, Facility for Advanced Spatial Technology (FAST), is receiving the Award for Mentoring Master’s Students. Charles Viss, a recent graduate of the Mathematical and Statistical Sciences PhD program in Applied Mathematics,...

Julien Langou has been awarded NSF award for a proposal that was submitted in collaboration with the University of Tennessee and the University of California, Berkeley. Starting next moth and running through 2024, the project `` Collaborative Research: Frameworks: Basic Algebra LIbraries for Sustainable Technology with Interdisciplinary Collaboration (BALLISTIC)” ,...

Associate Professor of Integrative Biology Greg Cronin recently produced a rap video PSA to educate Haitians about COVID-19 pandemic . The PSA encourages people to social distance, wash hands with soap and water, notice symptoms, and avoid contamination. This transdisciplinary effort occurred a decade after he produced a PSA that...

Richard Ashmore, Lecturer of Geography and Environmental Science and national award-winning photographer, has had work selected for the photographic exhibition Trees at PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury, Vermont (opening this month). Ashmore’s photograph entitled Adrift , which also won the exhibition’s Director’s Award, was selected by jurist Wendi Schneider, a Denver-based...

Annelise Rue Johns, PhD student with the Buma lab, has been offered a 2020 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to start this coming fall. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) helps ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and reinforces its...

Jamie Hodgkins, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, recently had a paper published in Quaternary Science Reviews . Archaeology has shown that South Africa was critical to the evolution of our species (Homo sapiens) during the Pleistocene. The now-submerged continental shelf formed its own ecosystem, the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain (PAP), where early humans...

Convo from the Couch is a new program hosted online by Colorado State Senator Kerry Donovan. On Wednesday, April 22, Christopher S. Beekman, Associate Professor of Anthropology, talked about his project, “Lessons on migration from archaeology: a project by the Coalition for Archaeological Synthesis.” The series gets the community together...

MFA for O365 will go live using Duo Security on Tuesday, May 26, 2020. MFA for O365 significantly strengthens security when students, faculty and staff connect to Office 365 applications (including Outlook) remotely. OIT communicated that some older devices and browsers may stop working when Modern Authentication (Modern Auth) is...

The 2020 Census is important because it will (among other things) determine the number of seats each state has in the US House of Representatives, inform hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funding, and provide data that will impact communities for the next decade. Responding to the 2020 Census...

According to host Assocaite Professor of Philosophy Sarah Tyson, "One of the things I miss about not physically going to school is the chance to casually chat with my colleagues and get their takes on the events of the world . So, I'm reaching out to them and recording what...