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Troy Butler Receives CU Denver OER Champion Award

March 2, 2023

Associate Professor of Mathematical and Sciences Troy Butler is the University of Colorado Denver recipient of the 22-23 Open Educational Resources (OER) Champion Award . This award recognizes significant achievements of faculty, staff, and students in expanding the use of open educational resources. Butler is being commended for his considerable...

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Research on Psilocybin ('Magic Mushrooms') Use Among BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and Other People of Color) and Low-Income Individuals in Colorado Looking for Participants

Feb. 16, 2023

Criteria for participation: 21-75 years of age Have used psilocybin within the past 12 months Self-identify as BIPOC or a member of a marginalized community who is unable or uninterested to pay for a psilocybin-assisted therapy session (that costs between $200 and $1,500 in Colorado) Complete 1 videotaped interview (e.g.,...

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Submit Proposals Now to the Colorado Department of Higher Education's Colorado OER (Open Education Resources) Conference

Feb. 16, 2023

The Colorado OER Conference Organizing Committee is excited to invite proposals for the 2023 Colorado OER Conference to be held on May 19 in Denver at History Colorado. Faculty, librarians, students, instructional designers, administrators, and other OER advocates are encouraged to submit a session. This year’s conference theme is “Going...

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Sara Yeatman Addresses Oxford While on UK Sabbatical

Feb. 16, 2023

Sara Yeatman, Professor in the Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences, was an academic visitor at the University of Oxford’s Leverhulme Center for Demographic Science and Nuffield College for three days in early February. Among other activities, Yeatman gave a talk entitled, “The impact of access to contraception on women’s...

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Check out the Spanish Language, World Literature Podcast from Andrés Lema-Hincapié

Feb. 16, 2023

Along with Conrado Zuluaga Osorio (from Bogotá, Colombia) Professor of Ibero-American Literatures and Cultures in the Department of Modern Languages Andrés Lema-Hincapié hosts Viajes Al Libro (Book Journeys), a podcast in Spanish . Join the hosts as they travel through books from different languages and cultures, from different geographies and...

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Alum Darrel Guadnola Becomes Commerce City Chief of Police

Feb. 16, 2023

Commerce City recently announced the hiring of Darrel Guadnola as the city’s next chief of police. Guadnola got his BA in Political Science from CU Denver in 1997 and holds master’s degrees in both Business Administration and Management from Regis University with a graduate certificate in Executive Leadership. A lifelong...

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Tyson and Shelby Looking for Assistance at APA Annual Conference

Feb. 2, 2023

The American Philosophy Association (APA) Central Meeting is coming to Denver on March 23-25, 2023. Denver Philosophy Department Chair Sarah Tyson and Professor Candice Shelby will be participating and inviting students to come to take part in their symposiums by listening to their moderated discussions or others discussing a variety...

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Copper Nickel Now a Top Ten Ranked Literary Journal

Feb. 2, 2023

There are about 700 regularly publishing literary journals in America—and each year a writer and blogger named Clifford Garstang ranks them based on how often work from their pages is reprinted in the prestigious annual Pushcart Prize Anthology. Since the Copper Nickel was relaunched it has been climbing Garstang's rankings,...

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CLAS Faculty Proud Recipients of Recent NEH Grants

Feb. 2, 2023

Assistant Professor of History Rachel Gross, Clinical Associate Professor of History Cameron Blevins and Associate Professor of English Michelle Comstock all recently won a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to pursue a digital walking tour and curriculum project related to Auraria's history. Recovering Auraria’s Past: Building a Digital...

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Alum Alejandro Lucero Publishes Poetry Chapbook

Jan. 19, 2023

Alejandro Lucero, who just graduated in December with a degree in English–Creative Writing, has had his poetry chapbook, Sapello Son , accepted for publication by Bull City Press , a nationally renowned poetry press out of Durham, North Carolina. A "chapbook" is a poetry collection roughly one third to one...

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