Spotlight

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...

Rachel E. Harding has been named the Sterling Brown Distinguished Visiting Professor of Africana Studies at Williams College in Massachusetts. Harding, who is associate professor of Indigenous Spiritual Traditions in the Ethnic Studies Department, will be on leave from CU Denver in the spring and fall of 2018. While at...

Communication Professor Stephen John Hartnett delivered the Presidential Address at the 2017 annual National Communication Association Conference in Dallas, Texas on “ Communication, Globalization, and the Prospects of Solidarity ,” stressing the importance of forming collaborative international partnerships that link scholars and students.

Jared Mastin , Integrated Biology BS 2013, and MS 2017, recently published “Evidence for genetic allopolyploidy in Eutrema edwardsii (Brassicaceae): implications for conservation” in the international journal Plant Systematics and Evolution . The paper, which is co-authored by Leo P. Bruederle (Associate Professor of Integrative Biology) and Peter Anthamatten (Associate...

Erin Sanders, Psychology BA 2012, and current MS Integrated Biology student, received second place in the 2017 Student Competition for the Presidents Prize from the Entomological Society of America.

Communication MA student Eli Woody Scrivner had an op-ed published by The Capital-Journal . "We engage in binary thinking by creating two sides in a conversation, and these two sides almost always boil down to ‘right’ or ‘wrong.’ When we hear someone present a standpoint that is different than ours,...

Two graduate students, Benjamin Lagasse, M.S.and Lamya'a Dawud, Ph.D., received travel awards from the Department of Integrative Biology to attend professional meetings.

The Chemistry Club has been recognized as a Student Chapter Honorable Mention Award Recipient for the 2016-2017academic year by the American Chemical Society . And for a second year in a row, the Society of Physics Students & Sigma Pi Sigma (through the American Institute of Physics) named the CU...