CLAS Research Innovation Seed Program (CRISP) funds are designated specifically to promote innovative research and creative activities and encourage the submission of applications for externally funded research. CRISP funds are intended to provide seed money to fund studies used in grant proposals and to facilitate research and creative activities that...

J. Jeffrey Franklin, Associate Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Experiences and Professor of English, has published a new book, Spirit Matters: Occult Beliefs, Alternative Religions, and the Crisis of Faith in Victorian Britain (with Cornell University Press). This latest work explores the heterodox and unorthodox religions and spiritualities that arose in...

The DIIF is targeted to promote CLAS's strategic priority "to enhance diversity across the college and foster a culture of inclusion." The DIIF aims particularly to fund projects that encourage people to think about diversity and inclusion in meaningful ways and to make positive changes in CLAS and the broader...

Cooking en Español: Tapas and Wine with Amigos del Sur creates a sabrosa opportunity for a Denver audience already aware of the value of the culinary arts and the Spanish language. Whether your Spanish is basic or advanced, with English translators at the ready everyone can appreciate the wonderfully rich...

Cristina L. Sloan, Associate Director of Development for the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences earned her BA at Tulane University in 2000 and her MA from Yale University in 2002. She then spent several years teaching and supporting development efforts at boarding and private schools on the east coast...

MARC U-STAR Scholar, Jennifer Jaime, a psychology major, won first place in the Undergraduate Poster Competition at Front Range Neuroscience Group annual meeting on December 6. Her poster entitled, "Neural circuits underlying acquisition and habituation of voluntary exercise," (with co-authors Margaret Tanner, Natalie Haddad, Mykola Ostrovskyy, Nicolette Moya, Megan Miner,...

Sarah K. Fields, Communication Professor and Associate Dean, was recently named a co-editor of the Terry and Jan Todd Series on Physical Culture and Sports at the University of Texas Press .

Pam Laird, History, published " How business historians can save the world—from the fallacy of self-made success " in a special issue on narratives in the British journal Business History in November. The article tracks the history of the self-making concept from its original sense of community-serving self-improvement to its...

Chair and Professor of Mathematical and Statistical Science, Julien Langou's paper titled "Fast Parallel Randomized QR with Column Pivoting Algorithms for Reliable Low-rank Matrix Approximations," (with coauthors Jianwei Xiao and Ming Gu from UC Berkeley) won the best paper award of the 24th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing,...

New publication from CTT Assistant Professor of Sociology, Maren Scull, " Managing Identity in a Dirty Occupation: Male Strippers Experiences with Social Stigmas ." Sociological Spectrum 37(6): 390-411. In this research, I explore the social stigmas male strippers experience for engaging in a deviant occupation and the identity work they...