Spotlight

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...

Starting in Spring, CFD is organizing three new groups dedicated to discovering knowledge and nurturing community around the work faculty do as educators. Each Communities of Practice (CoP) is organized around a topic and faculty participate by engaging in discussion, sharing ideas, and resources. Each CoP meets 5 times over...

English Instructor Alexander Lumans recently won a National Endowment for the Arts grant which will help fund the writing his first novel, about a female Norwegian Polar Guard working in the Arctic Circle in the near future. Lumans has been working on the book for about 2 years so far,...

Biology PhD student Adrienne Narrowe and Assistant Professor Department of Integrative Biology Christopher S. Miller contributed to a recent publication in Nature Communications showing that microbially produced methane in a freshwater wetland is produced in parts of the wetland where it was previously assumed no methane was coming from, from...

200+ volunteers and judges make the DMRSEF a success for 500+ local kids every year, and this year will be the second year on the Auraria campus. Morning, afternoon or full-day shifts are available. Opportunities range from Check-in to Awards Ceremony, and are open to all ages and ability levels...

Eleven CU-Denver students and Chemistry faculty mentors presented their research on a variety of topics, including DNA modification, cell signaling, and chemistry education, at the 2017 American Chemical Society Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting in Loveland, Colorado, October 25-28. Masters students Kirubel Tekletsadik and Nara Chon, postdoctoral scholar Chun-Hung Wang, and...

Karen Fennell, Executive Assistant to Dean Pamela Jansma, recently won the Achiever Award at the Denver Metro Admin Awards . The Achiever Award recognizes the high performing Administrative Professional that successfully performs difficult tasks and solves challenging problems day after day as a result of their resourcefulness and relentless perseverance.

Assistant Professor of Political Science Betcy Jose was awarded the 2018 Brodie Prize by the journal of Contemporary Security Policy . The Journal editors award the Bernard Brodie Prize annually to the author(s) of the most outstanding article published in the journal the previous year. Jose won for her article,...