Spotlight

Haoxiang “Edward” Liu (BA, Communication 2016, and Puksta Fellow) has now received four international awards for his cinematography for the short film Your Smile, shot in Beijing in 2018. Most recently, Haoxiang received the 2019 Around International Film Festival (ARFF) Barcelona Best Cinematography Award . Haoxiang has already received four...

At Altura Elementary School in Aurora, many students come from struggling families that experience food and housing insecurity. The administrators at Altura are teaming up with Bright Horizons Learning Center at Fitzsimons on the CU Anschutz Medical Campus to collect backpacks and easily made food supplies. You can help by...

Ronica Rooks, Associate Professor in the Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences, recently received a prestigious Fulbright Canada Award. Rooks will spend the spring 2020 semester at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, where she will conduct research alongside other experts on aging. Rooks’ project will look at the links...

Sandra Quinn, CLAS Degree Audit and Transfer Credit Coordinator, was a presenter, together with Camden Farmer, Assistant Registrar, at the American Association of College Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) 2019 Technology and Transfer Conference in Las Vegas on July 14. Quinn and Farmer’s presentation, “It’s a Matter of Trust: Building...

In a paper published August 23 rd in the journal Quaternary Research , Geography and Environmental Science Professor Emeritus Martin Lockley, and his colleagues, explained the significance of the discovery of baby sea turtle fossil prints from the Pleistocene epoch in South Africa. Lockley, who studied turtle tracks from Colorado,...

A new proposal by Physics Professor Martin Huber (lead PI) and Dan Dessau (CU Boulder, co-PI) has been officially funded by NSF MRI, in the full requested amount of $999,633. According to Huber, who also holds a joint appointment in electrical engineering, this project may have opportunities for both engineering...

Brian Buma, Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology, recently published with colleagues in the journal Nature Sustainability on the record-breaking fire seasons that are becoming increasingly common worldwide. Large wildfires are having extraordinary impacts on people and property, despite years of investments to support resilience to wildfires. This has prompted new...

Last month, North America’s largest gathering of statisticians and data scientists came together at the Joint Statistical Meeting in Denver, where several students and faculty from the University of Colorado Denver presented their innovative research alongside some of the industry’s most brilliant minds. “In terms of application, the industry is...

The CU Denver Data Science Symposium will bring together data science communities from CU Denver, whether they be the communities that pursue research in core data science, applications of data science in various fields of research, or education programs in data science. Participants will learn about data science research, education...

The Society for the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality’s Division 36 Annual Mid-Year Conference with a focus on Health and Spirituality, will take place on the Auraria campus, March 13-14, 2020. The purpose of this event is the sharing of knowledge related to interactions between health and spirituality (broadly defined)...