Christoph Stefes , Associate Professor of Political Science, collaborated on two recently released books: Germany's Energy Transition: A Comparative Perspective , and Fighting Environmental Crime in Europe and Beyond: The Role of the EU and Its Member States .

Jim Walsh , Clinical Assistant Professor in Political Science, was awarded the 2016 Engaged Scholarship Award by the Campus Compact of the Mountain West. The Engaged Scholarship Award, "recognizes a faculty member at a CCMW member institution whose scholarships illustrates clear goals for academic and community change, adequate preparation in...

Windham Loopesko 's INTS 1111 class attended a presentation offered by World Denver at the University Club on October 12. The Governor spoke with the students, giving them his take on international issues. INTS 1111, "Today’s Globalized World – Are You Ready?" is an interdisciplinary course that examines the current...

Leo P Bruederle, Associate Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology, has published two articles as part of the Global Carex Group (GCG), an international group of collaborators conducting research on one of the largest genera of flowering plants worldwide. "Making Carex monophyletic (Cyperaceae, tribe Cariceae): a new broader circumscription,"...

The Communication Department is proud to announce that the Media Learning Lab in the Student Commons Building is open and available to CLAS students, faculty and staff, Monday to Thursday from 9am to 5pm. The Lab provides a 21st Century workspace for digital creativity and production: state-of-the-art Apple computers loaded...

CU Denver is the newest chapter of SEEDS— Strategies for Ecology Education, Diversity, and Sustainability . SEEDS is a 20 year-old program of the Ecological Society of America with a mission "to diversify and advance the ecology profession through opportunities that stimulate and nurture the interest of underrepresented students to...

On September 25, Emeritus Professor of GES Wes Lemasurier gave a talk at the Geological Society of America entitled "The peralkaline felsic rock spectrum in Marie Byrd Land, and the case for polybaric fractionation." The talk covered the distillation of magma within roughly the upper 100km of the earth.

Faculty on all CU campuses are being asked to help in redesigning the Faculty Course Questionnaire (FCQ) process and instrument for the CU System. FCQs are mandated by the Board of Regents as a measure of teaching effectiveness, but the present, paper-based FCQ process is both inefficient and resource-intensive. A...

Individual membership in the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) is available at no cost to CU Denver and CU AMC faculty and staff under our Enhanced Institutional Membership, which was made possible by the Office of Research and the Office of Undergraduate Experiences. The mission of The CUR is to...

StoryCorps short film Traffic Stop featuring 2014 Puksta Fellow and Communication student Alex Landau received a 2016 Emmy Award for "New Approaches: Arts, Lifestyle and Culture." In the film Landau, who is African American, recalls how he nearly lost his life following a traffic stop with the Denver police. He...