Spotlight

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,...

Professor of Mathematics Michael Jacobson along with Professor of Computer Science Tom Altman (co-PIs) and Clinical Assistant Professor (C/T) of Mechanical Engineering Maryam Darbeheshti are collaborating on a new Urban S-STEM project. The grant is a tri-institutional National Science Foundation award between University of Colorado Denver, the University of Memphis,...

Health and Behavioral Science Associate Professor Jimi Adams' new book Gathering Social Network Data is available for "Open Review" while also under peer review. Learn more about crowd sourcing as a compliment to peer-review here .

Assistant Professor of English Rodney Herring's essay " Neither Pistols nor Sugar-Plumbs: The Rhetoric of Finance and the 1720 Bubbles " appeared in the most recent issue of Advances in the History of Rhetoric . The special issue of AHR was devoted to the rhetoric of economics. Herring's essay examines...

As of the Fall term, Stephen John Hartnett, Communication Professor, and the Department of Communication’s Democratic Communication Workshops program are running teams of volunteer teachers (BA, MA, and PhD students) into three Denver-area facilities: the CCC, DWCF, and Gilliam Youth Center. In line with that work, Communication is thrilled to...

Integrated Biology alum Jared Mastin (BS 2013, MS 2017) has published " Climatic Niche Modeling Reveals Divergence between Cytotypes in Eutrema edwardsii (Brassicaceae )" in the journal Botany . Mastin and co-authors Leo P Bruederle (Professor Emeritus, Integrative Biology) and Peter Anthamatten (Associate Professor, Geography and Environmental Sciences) provide evidence...

The American Association of University Women has awarded a 2018–19 American Fellowships to Emily Hammad Mrig, doctoral scholar in Health and Behavioral Sciences at University of Colorado Denver. Mrig's research examines the unintended outcomes of health insurance expansion by examining access to genetic testing among women diagnosed with breast cancer...

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is currently soliciting nominations for the Outstanding Graduate Students from the College. Departments may submit one individual to each of two categories: Masters (MA, MS, MHUM, MSS, MIS) and Ph.D. Nominating packets are due electronically to Kathleen Bollard by 5 pm on Monday,...

This past weekend, CLAS was well represented at the Triple Nine Society Conference in Denver at the Brown Palace. History Professor Tom Noel presented Denver: Mining to Metropolis , a lighthearted overview of the ups and downs of the Mile High City from the 1858-59 Gold Rush to today. And...