On May 8, the Physics Department hosted a group of ten students and two teachers from Florence High School (Florence, Colorado). The event started with a 90 minute session on the applications of calculus to solving physics problems, then Professor Martin Huber gave the group a tour of his laboratory...

English Associate Professor Nicky Beer has been awarded a fellowship for residency at the highly prestigious MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, NH. MacDowell has been referred to by the New York Times as the "gold standard" of colonies for artists—only about 30 people from across many artistic disciplines are housed at...

Will Fitzhugh, Physics BS and Masters of Integrated Science (MIS) alum, current Harvard PhD student, and founder of American Nanotechnologies, Inc., has received a highly selective proof-of-concept grant from the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT) . Fitzhugh’s proposal (for single walled carbon nanotube purification) was one...

Associate Professor of Creative Writing Wayne Miller’s book Post- recently won the 2017 Colorado Book Award in Poetry.

At the Community Resources Appreciation Breakfast on May 12, Physics Chair Clyde Zaidins received the Outstanding Mentor of the Year Award from Community Resources, Inc. (which coordinates the volunteer activities for Denver Public Schools) for his work with high school students through the Academic Mentors Project.

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) recently selected 24 schools in the first round of the Inclusive Excellence initiative. This program aims to help increase the capacity of colleges and universities to effectively engage all students so that they can be successful in science, especially undergraduates who enter four-year institutions...

Donna Martinez , Professor of Ethnic Studies, has a new book in-press, Urban Indians: Reclaiming Native Space (Praeger, August 31, 2016).

The English Department is proud to announce Grace Wagner is this year’s Richard T. Dillon Scholarship winner. A nontraditional student, majoring in Creative Writing with a focus in Poetry, Wagner maintains a 4.0 GPA and plans on getting her masters and doctorate in Creative Writing. Born in Oklahoma, she has...

The Chemistry Department is now recycling waste acetone that is generated in teaching laboratories. Through conversations between the Chemistry Department and the university’s Department of Environmental Health and Safety (EHS), it was discovered that the teaching labs at CU Denver could greatly benefit from reusing their waste acetone. EHS realized...

In the latest American Association of Geographers newsletter, Associate Professor of GES Casey Allen poetically argues the case for allowing more breadth in geographical study and specialization, with phrases like: But the road is long, the path arduous, and plagued with bandits who seem bent on robbing our wonderful discipline...