Spotlight

On August 7, at 3:00am, Eliza Cummings , regular presenter and panelist in Political Science First-Year Honors and Leadership courses, became the eighth swimmer since 1968 to complete the 20-mile Plymouth to Provincetown open-water marathon swim across Cape Cod Bay. She finished in 9 hours and 37 minutes, beating the 2014 record of 9:43.

Colleen Donnelly , Associate Professor of English, in June published the book The Marys of Medieval Drama: The Middle English Digby and N-Town in Translation (Sidetone Press).This volume contains modern translations of plays performed during the late Middle Ages in England about the lives of the Virgin Mary and Mary...

Mathematical and Statistical Sciences Professor Julien Langou has been awarded a $300,000, two-year award, starting August 1, by the National Science Foundation for the project entitled, "SHF: EAGER: Developing General Techniques for Tightening Bounds of the Data-Movement Complexity of Large Scale Parallel Applications."

The CU Denver Society of Physics Students (SPS) Chapter has won the Blake Lilly Prize for their outreach work with the Boys and Girls Club of America . Recognizing SPS chapters and individuals who make a genuine effort to positively influence the attitudes of school children and the general public...

In The Modern Legislative Veto , published in July by the University of Michigan Press, Michael J. Berry , Associate Professor of Political Science, uses a multimethod research design, incorporating quantitative and qualitative analyses, to examine the ways that Congress has used the legislative veto over the past 80 years...

Candice L. Shelby , Associate Professor of Philosophy, presented "Memes: A Doctrine of Hogwash" at the Third Annual International Biocoding Conference in Urbino Italy, on May 25, and then discussed meaning and psychological development with grad students and faculty in Florence, Italy on May 30 and 31. In addition, Shelby...

Hamilton Bean , Associate Professor in Communication, has published a chapter in the latest edition of New Agendas in Communication, Strategic Communication . This series, published by Routledge, brings together groups of emerging scholars to tackle important interdisciplinary themes that demand new scholarly attention and reach broadly across the communication...

The July 4 th issue of The New Yorker included Assistant Professor of English Nicky Beer ‘s poem Juveniles (along with an audio track of the piece read by the author). Juveniles The New Yorker , July 4

Sarah K. Fields , Associate Professor of Communication, recently published Game Faces: Sport Celebrity and the Laws of Reputation and discusses how sports figures cope with a level of celebrity once reserved for the stars of stage and screen. She’s also a go to speaking on her research in the...

Keith Guzik , Associate Professor of Sociology discusses the plausibility of regulating guns like cars. License and registration, please: how regulating guns like cars could improve safety The Conversation , June 26