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Political science professor Tony Robinson

Robinson on Benghazi and Colorado Senate race

July 21, 2017

Tony Robinson, Professor and Chair of the Political Science Department, says Benghazi is an issue that will likely be brought up again. “It won’t be the final word on it,” Robinson said. “The Republicans will raise the issue throughout the debate and so will Trump. He will remind voters at...

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Shelby travels from Italy to China

July 21, 2017

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...

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Bean advocates for increased use of critical-cultural and rhetorical perspectives

July 21, 2017

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...

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Beer poem in The New Yorker

July 21, 2017

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

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Fields on the radio

July 21, 2017

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...

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Guzik on gun control

July 21, 2017

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

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Horton on Identity and Undocumented Workers

July 21, 2017

Farmworkers frequently are forced into the role of identity thieves in order to get a job, according to a new University of Colorado Denver report. Sarah Horton , Associate Professor of Anthropology, found undocumented or underage farm workers in California were being given stolen, borrowed or forged identity documents by...

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UCDALI Non-Tenure Track Faculty Professional Development Grants

June 15, 2017

The CU Denver Association of Lecturers and Instructors (UCDALI) is pleased to announce the recipients of the University of Colorado Denver CLAS Non-Tenure Track Faculty Professional Development grants for spring 2017, selected from a pool of impressive candidates. Masoud Asidi-Zeybadadi and Richard Geyer , Department of Physics, will continue work...

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Communication in China Celebrates Another Great Year

June 15, 2017

The ICB Communication Department celebrated with its largest-ever end of year banquet (75+ attendees) and Lambda Pi Eta Honor Society Induction ceremony, now in its 10th year. Many of the honors students (and others) are headed off to elite graduate schools next year—including NYU, Leeds, Kyoto, USC, and CUC. Students...

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Physics Hosts Florence High School

June 15, 2017

On May 8, the Physics Department hosted a group of ten students and two teachers from Florence High School (Florence, Colorado). The event started with a 90 minute session on the applications of calculus to solving physics problems, then Professor Martin Huber gave the group a tour of his laboratory...

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