Spotlight

Associate Professor Timberly Roane has received funding from the National Science Foundation for the project Building a Network for Education and Employment in Environmental Stewardship of Indigenous Lands . This project will foster recruitment, training, and employment for indigenous STEM students, where the term "indigenous" comprises the terms Native American,...

Last spring, with the support of the higher education community the Denver Center for Performing Arts was able to host moderated discussions following every performance of the play Disgraced . This year, DCPA will be bringing Smart People to the stage (October 13 through November 19) and would like to...

CU Denver is searching for a new Commencement Marshal. Anyone who is interested in serving can reach out to Kelly Mason at 303-315-0403 or kelly.a.mason@ucdenver.edu by September 29 th . Potential candidates will be interviewed in October – and the new marshal will shadow Charlie Ferguson (esteemed outgoing Marshal) in...

Andrew Boddicker , M.S. Graduate student advised by Annika Mosier, received a travel award from the Department of Integrative Biology to attend the American Society for Microbiology's international meeting, Microbe, in New Orleans, LA. He presented a poster at the meeting on his research involving the cultivation and whole-genome sequencing...

Political Science Assistant Professor Betcy Jose recently published her latest article - titled, " Not completely the new normal: How Human Rights Watch tried to suppress the targeted killing norm ," in Contemporary Security Policy's special August issue on Targeted Killing and International Order. In it, Jose examines the shifting...

Philip Joseph, Associate Professor of English, published an article entitled "The Picaro at War: Vernacular War and Violent Conflict in Grimmelshausen and Saro-Wiwa" in the journal of the Modern Language Association, PMLA 131.5: 1284-1298 . The article compares a 17th-century German novel ( Simplicissimus ) with a late 20th-century Nigerian...

Associate Professor of English Amy Vidali was awarded the Kenneth Bruffee Award , an annual award for the best scholarship on writing programs. The article, "Disabling Writing Program Administration," traces how disability figures in the prolific narratives of those who run writing programs. Vidali identifies how anxiety and depression often...

The Center for Faculty Development has an exciting new opportunity for faculty, with a fast approaching deadline. CFD is offering a three-day retreat giving faculty an opportunity to get out of town, reconnect with a writing project, and have the space and time to focus on their scholarly agendas. Participants...

The National Science Foundation offers funding opportunities for new and beginning second-year graduate students in the sciences and social sciences: the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). Students with no more than one-year of graduate coursework may apply for funding that provides tuition support and a stipend for three years of...

The Fall 2017 Mini Grant Program represents a second round of CU Denver Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) grants being administered by the Office of Undergraduate Experiences. UROP is a competitive program designed to financially support mentored undergraduate research, most broadly understood as including all creative and other scholarly activities...