Spotlight

Associate Professor C/T in Geography Rudi Hartmann is co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies . The Handbook has 30 chapters including on U.S. memorials for the victims of massacres and violence, on slavery at Southern plantation museums, on seismic memorial sites in China and on tourism to...

CLAS Research Innovation Seed Program (CRISP) funds are designated specifically to promote innovative research and creative activities and encourage the submission of applications for externally funded research. CRISP funds are intended to provide seed money to fund studies used in grant proposals and to facilitate research and creative activities that...

As a result of a grant from the Colorado Opportunity Scholarship Initiative (COSI) , the University of Colorado Denver has the opportunity to match $85,603 in scholarship gifts to benefit Colorado students. Scholarships will: Benefit Colorado students with demonstrated financial need. Be accompanied by wraparound services in the CU Denver...

Being a McNair faculty mentor means supervising an undergraduate who will participate in your research during the eight-week summer research and graduate school preparation program. The main focus of the Junior Year is the summer residential research component. Faculty and Scholars are matched according to common research interests. During Spring...

J. Jeffrey Franklin, Associate Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Experiences and Professor of English, has published a new book, Spirit Matters: Occult Beliefs, Alternative Religions, and the Crisis of Faith in Victorian Britain (with Cornell University Press). This latest work explores the heterodox and unorthodox religions and spiritualities that arose in...

The DIIF is targeted to promote CLAS's strategic priority "to enhance diversity across the college and foster a culture of inclusion." The DIIF aims particularly to fund projects that encourage people to think about diversity and inclusion in meaningful ways and to make positive changes in CLAS and the broader...

Cooking en Español: Tapas and Wine with Amigos del Sur creates a sabrosa opportunity for a Denver audience already aware of the value of the culinary arts and the Spanish language. Whether your Spanish is basic or advanced, with English translators at the ready everyone can appreciate the wonderfully rich...

Pam Laird, History, published " How business historians can save the world—from the fallacy of self-made success " in a special issue on narratives in the British journal Business History in November. The article tracks the history of the self-making concept from its original sense of community-serving self-improvement to its...

Chair and Professor of Mathematical and Statistical Science, Julien Langou's paper titled "Fast Parallel Randomized QR with Column Pivoting Algorithms for Reliable Low-rank Matrix Approximations," (with coauthors Jianwei Xiao and Ming Gu from UC Berkeley) won the best paper award of the 24th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing,...

New publication from CTT Assistant Professor of Sociology, Maren Scull, " Managing Identity in a Dirty Occupation: Male Strippers Experiences with Social Stigmas ." Sociological Spectrum 37(6): 390-411. In this research, I explore the social stigmas male strippers experience for engaging in a deviant occupation and the identity work they...