Spotlight

Two undergraduate Public Health majors (Lisette Martinez and Safa Mechergui), along with graduate student in Health and Behavioral Sciences, Marisa Westbrook, and Chair and Associate Professor Sara Yeatman, recently published, “The Influence of School-Based Health Center Access on High School Graduation: Evidence From Colorado” in the Journal of Adolescent Health...

Graduate student in Health and Behavioral Sciences, Marisa Westbrook, and Associate Professor of Political Science Tony Robinson recently published, “Unhealthy by design: health & safety consequences of the criminalization of homelessness,” in the Journal of Social Distress and Homelessness . Although U.S. cities are expanding “anti-homeless” legislation – such as...

June 5, 2020 Ethnic Studies Statement Supporting Protests Against Police Violence The Ethnic Studies Program at the University of Colorado Denver stands in solidarity with the protesters demanding justice for Black lives taken by the police with impunity. We are horrified and enraged by the recent deaths of George Floyd,...

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...