Spotlight

Earlier this month, Anna G. Warrener, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, did "Standup Science" with Shane Mauss at The Black Buzzard at Oscar Blues. A collaboration between comedy and science, “Standup Science” kicks off with some of the host’s best material on brainy topics, before bringing on two local scientists to...

Geography and Environmental Sciences is very proud to announce the Spring 2019 winner of the William M. Rodgers Undergraduate Geography Major Scholarship; Matthew Davis will receive $1,000 in award monies. Congratulations Matt!

Junior Achievement has a long standing partnership with the University of Colorado Denver, with many students volunteering in JA classrooms throughout the school year. Through their JA service learning program, CU Denver students get a taste of the lifelong impacts they can make in their communities. “We realized that you...

The Education through Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (EUReCA!) programs are excited to announce the 2019 cohort of EUReCA! Fellows. The EUReCA! Fellows program provides talented students from across the university a paid summer research or creative project under the guidance of a faculty mentor. The majority of Fellows (and...

Roland Andrew Sweet was one of the leaders of the Computational Mathematics Group in the Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences from 1970 to 1996. Sweet was a beloved husband, father and grandfather, born in St. Petersburg, Florida, the youngest of Fred and Blanche (Aubin) Sweet’s five sons. After graduating...

Associate Professor of Integrative Biology Christopher Phiel (and collogues) paper " Glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK-3) regulates mRNA methylation in mouse embryonic stem cells ," has been awarded the honor of being featured in a special virtual issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry (one of the top scientific journals in...

CT Clinical Assistant Professor of History Greg Whitesides recently published his latest book Science and American Foreign Relations since World War II ( Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations). From atomic energy and satellites to the green revolution, his book covers scientific advances central to American diplomacy in the early...

Gabriel Finkelstein, Associate Professor of History, has been invited to a history of science conference on "Mechanism, Life and Mind in the ‘Modern’ Era" at the Università Roma Tre, in Rome, Italy, this April. His talk will be on " The Intellectual Origins of the Ignorabimus ."

Integrative Biology Associate Professor Greg Cronin (with Miguel Sague, is a Taino spiritual Leader and author) is co-organizing a special session at the International Interdisciplinary Conference on the Environment (IICE) to be held June 11-14 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The session “ Decolonization: Healing the Spirit, Mind, and Land...

Marty Otañez, Associate Professor of Anthropology (withcollaborator Carlos Jimenez) conducted a public screening of digital stories created by day laborers and domestic workers . The event was part of the research project “Self-Documenting the Everyday Lives of Day Laborers in Denver” with funds from the University of Denver Latino Center...