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The CLAS Academic Policies and Deadlines Insert for Spring 2017 Syllabi is now available at http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/CLAS . Questions about the document can be directed to CLAS@ucdenver.edu .

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.

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...

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 Construction of the Self in The Rules Dating Manual Rodrick Schubert: Tradition and Transformation in Jane Addams’s New Federalism: Creating Community...

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...