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Fernanda Cabrera, Creative Writing and Spanish Major, receives 2024 Inaugural Lit Fest Creative Writing Scholarship. Fernanda is also a recipient of a 2022-2023 Michael S. Gorniak Scholarship. She has volunteered as a teacher assistant in a dual-language classroom, and she has volunteered as an interpreter for migrants applying for work...

Asma Al-Masyabi, Creative Writing Major, received the 2024 Inaugural Lit Fest Creative Writing Scholarship. Asma is a poet, writer, visual artist, and student based in Colorado. She is a Scholastic Silver Medal Poetry winner and Ruth Weiss Foundation Emerging Poet Award winner with publications in The Cincinnati Review , Subnivean...

Grayson Adams, Creative Writing Major and Screenwriting Minor, received the 2024 Inaugural Lit Fest Creative Writing Scholarships! Grayson is a writer and graphic/web designer in Denver, Colorado. They are currently an intern at Copper Nickel and worked previously as lead graphic designer at Heavy Feather Review .

A team of eight faculty members from the Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences received a $68,671 award from the Colorado Commission on Higher Education (CCHE) for their proposal entitled “Mathematics and Data Science Z-degrees at CU Denver.” This will be funded with the 2024-25 cohort 6 cycle as part...

Kevin Masters, Professor in the Department of Psychology, was nominated and accepted into the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research. Initially started by the Institute of Medicine, the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research is a diverse group of distinguished scholars elected by their peers for outstanding contributions to behavioral medicine research...

Research by Michael Moore (Assistant Professor in Integrative Biology), along with two CU Denver students, is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . PNAS selected it as an article they will be promoting to the press. Here is Dr. Moore's summary of the article: "Species require special...

With support from the CU Denver’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities, Dr. Ivan J. Ramírez (Health and Behavioral Sciences) launched a prototype lab (Civic Engagement and Climate Justice [CECJ] ThinkLab) that fosters interdisciplinary research experiences for undergraduate students interested in the many facets of climate justice and social...

CLAS professors Jeff Knight (Chemistry), Chris Miller (Integrative Biology) and Hai Lin (Chemistry) published a collaborative paper in the January issue of Protein Science on research conducted with Professional Research Associate Nara Chon (MS Chemistry ‘18 and first author on the study) and recent graduate Sherleen Tran (BS Biology ’20)...

Andrea Velasquez, Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, was awarded a Russell Sage Foundation Award . Andrea Velasquez and Duncan Thomas (Duke University) will examine the selectivity of Mexican immigrants and their socioeconomic integration, comparing those staying in the U.S. and those returning to Mexico. The research is co-funded...

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences selected the following students for the Fall 2023 Outstanding Awards: Outstanding Bachelor of Arts: Ali Alnazzal, Political Science Outstanding Bachelor of Science : Benjamin Peter Denker, Integrative Biology Outstanding Master of Arts : Tyrel Seward Sorensen, Anthropology Outstanding Master of Science : Jessica...