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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...

Diana F. Tomback , Professor and Associate Chair in Integrative Biology and Director of the Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation, and her graduate students presented four oral presentations and a poster paper based on recent research in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem at The 13th Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone...

Brad Stith , Professor of Integrative Biology, gave two invited talks in Spain in late September-early October. The first was at the at the European Calcium Society (one platform and one poster) meeting which was hosted by the University of Valladolid. Stith's talk was on the discovery of a new...

CU Denver Food Pantry is inviting students to sign up for Thanksgiving Gobbler Baskets. If you know any student(s) that might benefit from a basket, please refer them to: https://orgsync.com/75187/forms/226051 . If they would like a gift-card to go with their basket, there is a link to the gift-card survey...

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,"...

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...