Spotlight

Brian Buma, Assistant Professor of Integrated Biology, and colleagues recently published “The value of linking short and long-term perspectives to understand spatially-explicit ecosystem resilience.” in Landscape Ecology (Buma B, Harvey B, Gavin D, Kelly R, Loboda T, McNeil B, Marlon J, Meddens AJH, Morris JL, Raffa K, Shuman B, Smithwick...

Professor of Ethnic Studies Donna Martinez has a forthcoming book Documents of American Indian Removal , publishing next month (available for preorder now) from ABC-CLIO. This powerful collection of documents illumines the experiences of the original people of the United States during American Indian removal, offering readers a unique standpoint...

Brian Buma, Assistant Professor of Integrated Biology, and colleagues recently published, Large, climate-sensitive soil carbon stocks mapped with pedology-informed machine learning in the North Pacific coastal temperate rainforests in Environmental Research Letters . This international work spanned Alaska and Canada, covering the most biomass dense ecosystem on the continent at...

Fall Commencement 2018 is set for Saturday, December 15, at the Colorado Convention Center and it doesn't happen without volunteers. Kelly A. Mason is planning the day and it's easy to make her smile. Just drop her an email and let her know you want to be part of her...

Volunteer to help our students in need of academic accommodations wrap up a successful semester during final exams week. Shifts are available to pick up or deliver exams, proctor exams or act as a reader or scribe for a student, Monday, Dec. 10 through Friday, Dec. 14. Sign up now!

Professor Emeritus Andrew Knyazev has been named as part of the 2019 Class of American Mathematic Society Fellows , " for contributions to numerical partial differential equations, computational mathematics and linear algebra, with industrial applications ." The Fellows of the AMS designation recognizes members who have made outstanding contributions to...

GES Professor Emeritus Martin Lockly and colleagues recently published, " Smallest known raptor tracks suggest microraptorine activity in lakeshore setting" (SREP-18-00209) has been scheduled for online publication in Scientific Reports . The paper is the collaborative efforts of an international team of palaeontologists, and studies the world's smallest dinosaur tracks...

Sothary Chea, the Ethnic Studies department Program Assistant, was recognized as Rookie of the Year at the 2018 Denver Metro Admin Awards gala on October 9. Chea began her position in March 2018. In a few short months, she has transformed the culture of the Ethnic Studies department office by...

Jan Mandel, Professor in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, will be presenting at the upcoming AGU Fall Meeting, December 10-14, in Washington DC, "Retrieving Fire Perimeters and Ignition Points of Large Wildfires from Satellite Observations." He will discuss a method that automatically makes a continuous map of wildland fire progression from...

Marty Otanez, Associate Professor of Anthropology, co-authored "In pursuit of viable alternative livelihoods for tobacco farmers and farm workers" in the Bulletin of the Framework Convention Alliance (FCA) during the Eighth session of the Conference of the Parties to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in Geneva,...