Spotlight

On August 22, Hamilton Bean, Associate Professor of Communication, presented a "Summary of Research Findings Concerning Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA)" at the National Academies of Sciences' Workshop in Washington, DC: Exploring Medical and Public Health Preparedness for a Nuclear Incident.

Amanda Charlesworth, Associate Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology, received an R15 award from National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health for 3 years to study "Maternal control of zygotic genome activation by the RNA-binding proteins, Zar1 and Zar2". After fertilization, the embryo does...

Associate Professor of Chemistry Jefferson Knight has been named a 2018 Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. This competitive award recognizes faculty from undergraduate-centered departments for their outstanding accomplishments in research and education in the chemical sciences. Knight joins Professor Hai Lin as CU-Denver faculty who...

New research from Integrative Biology Associate Professor Christopher Phiel (and colleges) Glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK-3) activity regulates mRNA methylation in mouse embryonic stem cells describes an intersection between these components in the regulation of m6 A by GSK-3. The research found that that protein levels for the RNA demethylase, FTO...

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...

Communication Associate Professor CT Patrick Dodge and Professor Stephen Hartnett co-planned a summer international conference, the National Communication Association-Communication University of China Conference on "Communication, Media, & Governance in the Age of Globalization" with Zhi Li and Qingwen Dong at the Communication University of China in Beijing, June 20-23. The...

Assistant Professor of Communication Mia Fischer published "Queer and Feminist Approaches to Transgender Media Studies," in the Palgrave-McMillan book, Feminist Approaches to Media Theory and Research .

Lead investigator Rudi Hartmann, Professor C/T, and Designer Meron Ayele, GES Administrative Assistant, constructed a 22 page volume documenting the history of the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences (GES). The work spans from the hiring of the first geographer in 1963 (when CU-Denver was the Denver Extension Center with...

Communication Professor Stephen Hartnett and Chair Lisa Keranen delivered lecture/seminars at the Advanced Summer Institute on Media and Communication at SooChow University in Suzhou, China in late June. Hartnett spoke about Trump’s rhetoric and digital culture, as well as the networks of the Russian election interference campaign, and Lisa spoke...

A team of faculty from the University of Colorado Denver (along with partners at Texas A&M University) has received a $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the recovery of mobile home parks in the Houston metropolitan area following Hurricane Harvey. Assistant Professor of Sociology Esther Sullivan...