Starting in Spring, CFD is organizing three new groups dedicated to discovering knowledge and nurturing community around the work faculty do as educators. Each Communities of Practice (CoP) is organized around a topic and faculty participate by engaging in discussion, sharing ideas, and resources. Each CoP meets 5 times over...

English Instructor Alexander Lumans recently won a National Endowment for the Arts grant which will help fund the writing his first novel, about a female Norwegian Polar Guard working in the Arctic Circle in the near future. Lumans has been working on the book for about 2 years so far,...

Biology PhD student Adrienne Narrowe and Assistant Professor Department of Integrative Biology Christopher S. Miller contributed to a recent publication in Nature Communications showing that microbially produced methane in a freshwater wetland is produced in parts of the wetland where it was previously assumed no methane was coming from, from...

Karen Fennell, Executive Assistant to Dean Pamela Jansma, recently won the Achiever Award at the Denver Metro Admin Awards . The Achiever Award recognizes the high performing Administrative Professional that successfully performs difficult tasks and solves challenging problems day after day as a result of their resourcefulness and relentless perseverance.

Assistant Professor of Political Science Betcy Jose was awarded the 2018 Brodie Prize by the journal of Contemporary Security Policy . The Journal editors award the Bernard Brodie Prize annually to the author(s) of the most outstanding article published in the journal the previous year. Jose won for her article,...

200+ volunteers and judges make the DMRSEF a success for 500+ local kids every year, and this year will be the second year on the Auraria campus. Morning, afternoon or full-day shifts are available. Opportunities range from Check-in to Awards Ceremony, and are open to all ages and ability levels...

Eleven CU-Denver students and Chemistry faculty mentors presented their research on a variety of topics, including DNA modification, cell signaling, and chemistry education, at the 2017 American Chemical Society Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting in Loveland, Colorado, October 25-28. Masters students Kirubel Tekletsadik and Nara Chon, postdoctoral scholar Chun-Hung Wang, and...

CLAS Dissemination Grants provide support to faculty = engaging in activities that promote their research and creative work and enhance the profile of the College and University. The CLAS Dissemination Grant is a competitive program that provides an opportunity for tenure-track, tenured, and clinical teaching track faculty to obtain up...

Philosophy Research Assistant Professor Mark Bauer’s new article "Ahistorical Teleosemantics: An Alternative to Nanay," was recently published in The Southern Journal of Philosophy (2017, 55, 158-76). In addition, Bauer is presenting the paper "Nonfunctional Semantics in Plants," at the Southwestern Philosophical Society Conference in Waco, Texas, on Nov 3-5. At...

Ernest Boffy-Ramirez, Assistant Professor CT of Economics, publishes research on the countercyclical relationship between educational attainment and state unemployment. Boffy-Ramirez's latest research, in Education Economics , shows that 17 year old male high school students on the margin between going to college and entering the labor force are tipped into...