Spotlight

Rachel Elizabeth Harding , Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies, recently delivered an invited lecture at Pitzer College in Claremont, California on "Mystic Spirituality in Black Women's Social Justice Activism - Brazil/USA."

At the Department of Communication’s seventeenth annual Communication Days celebration, the Department welcomed more than 15 outside experts and guest speakers to classes, ranging from the Nation’s sports editor Dave Zirin to singer-songwriter Josh Fuson and the LGBTQ Resource Center’s Xajés Martinez, and honored outstanding achievements. 2017 Department of Communication...

Earlier this month, Michael S. Jacobson , Professor and Interim Chair of Mathematical and Statistical Science, co-organized and co-led a national workshop on “The Professional Preparation for Future Faculty in the Mathematical Sciences” in Arlington Virginia at the National Science Foundation. The workshop attracted participants from across the United States...

With funding from a newly awarded R03 grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Assistant Professor of Sociology Adam Lippert will be studying food insecurity and food acquisition strategies among homeless and precariously housed children and their families. He will conduct this project...

Sociology Assistant Professor Esther Sullivan 's comparative ethnographic analysis of state regulation and housing insecurity has been published as the lead article in the top sociology journal, American Sociological Review (Vol. 82(2), pp. 243-269). This piece, which ASR referred to as "ground-breaking," examines outcomes of state policies meant to manage...

“Be a Scientist Day,” a new initiative from the CU Denver Society of Physics Students chapter has been selected as a 2016-17 Future Faces of Physics Award winner. The Future Faces of Physics Award is aimed at supporting projects designed to promote physics across cultures, and is designed to promote...

CLAS is proud to announce the following Graduate Program recent rankings from US News and World Reports : Department of Integrative Biology #75 Department of Mathematics and Statistical Sciences #115 (math) and #75 (stats)

After two years of hard work, Instructor Jordan Hill proud to announce that the Colorado Critical Review (CCR) , a peer-reviewed journal (hosted by the University of Colorado Denver in the MHMSS Program and featuring an Editorial Board with scholars from nearly two-dozen universities) recently released its inaugural issue. This...

“Thank you to John and Nichel Mulstay, Dean Pamela Jansma, and our colleagues in the Communications Department for their generous support of our students. We are very proud to be working with the next generation of leaders, they will keep hope alive for us all,” says Chair Donna Martinez of...

Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Casey Allen has been named a 2017 recipient of the prestigious Higher Education Distinguished Teaching Award from the National Council for Geographic Education. This award honors those who have made extraordinary contributions to the teaching and learning of geography at the post-secondary level...