Spotlight

Communication received the final data on this semester’s partnership between the department and Junior Achievement: a total of 274 CU Denver students participated, in 9 different area schools, reaching a total of 3,548 Denver students, for a total of 2,055 service hours.

Geography and Environmental Sciences Associate Professor C/T Rudi Hartmann presented a paper at the Tourism Naturally Conference in Alghero, Sardinia (Italy) October 3, 2016. The joint paper, with Shelley Broadway (Master’s Student, College of Engineering) and Amanda Weaver (Senior Instructor, Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences), focused on the impact...

Building upon almost a decade of networking with political leaders in China, the Department of Communication’s Professor Stephen John Hartnett , acting in his capacity as President of the National Communication Association, hosted a delegation from the Chinese Communist Party (CPC), in Washington, D.C., on December 12 and 13. The...

The 2016 Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs (AGLSP) annual conference in Oklahoma City gave Student Presentation Awards to: Lindsay Miller: Seen But Not Heard: Foucault, Freire and the Constructionof the Self in The Rules Dating Manual Rodrick Schubert: Tradition and Transformation in Jane Addams’s New Federalism: Creating Community Sphere...

Andrew Bubak (PhD student and winner of the Best Scientific Talk category at the recent 2016 Neuroscience Retreat), John Swallow (Professor and Chair of Integrative Biology), Michael Greene (Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director of Integrative Biology), and two colleagues at the University of South Dakota, recently published a paper...

Associate Professor of French, Clinical Teaching Track, Linda Alcott presented a paper at the 73rd Annual South Central Modern Language Association Conference . Alcott’s paper, titled "Voiceless Dialog and Inaccessibility in Emmelie Prophète’s Le boût du monde est une fenêtre," was presented as part of two Women in French panels...

Geography and Environmental Sciences Associate Professor C/T Rudi Hartmann presented a paper at an International Geographical Union Symposium in Nanjing, China on "Virtual Reality Tours: New Directions for a Changing Tourism Landscape." The presentation showed examples of tourist destinations with more frequent uses of virtual reality tours available on their...

In addition to giving talks on her book at the University of Illinois Chicago, Loyola University, the University of Denver, and the University of North Carolina Wilmington, Associate Professor of Anthropology Sarah Horton published, "From 'Deportability' to 'Denounce-ability': New Forms of Workplace Vulnerability in an Era of Governing Immigration Through...

Jeff P. Jones , Creative Writing BA alum, just published the novel, Love Give Us One Death: Bonnie and Clyde in the Last Days (Texas Review Press), and is the winner of the George Garrett Fiction Prize.

In October, Christopher Phiel , Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology, was invited by the Science Club at Front Range Community College to speak about CRISPR genome editing. Phiel teaches about CRISPR and similar techniques in his Introduction to Molecular Biology class, and has students perform their own CRISPR experiments in...