Spotlight

On March 22nd, American Forests hosted the screening of the video, Hope and Restoration , at the National Press Club in Washington DC, followed by a panel discussion. The purpose was to showcase the video on restoring whitebark pine, now a Threatened Species under the Endangered Species Act, which was...

Lauren Studdard, a junior studying Political Science, is analyzing the intersection of views on free speech and political affiliation for her capstone project. In order to accurately study these intersections she created a faculty survey focused on the CU Denver campus community. She says, “This is something I have been...

The CU Denver Open Educational Resources (OER) Committee invites you to take a quick (5-10 minutes) anonymous survey on your awareness and/or usage of Open Educational Resources (OER). Although this survey is anonymous, your responses to some questions may be self-identifying. It’s likely that we will use data collected from...

The CLAS Staff Council is pleased to welcome staff who started working for the college in the academic years 2022 and 2023! Some joined the college from other positions at CU, while others are new to CU. Join us in extending a friendly welcome to all staff who joined the...

Be a part of enhancing staff recognition, professional development, and impact within CLAS and CU Denver. Nominate yourself or others for Staff Council April 10-21 and vote April 26-May 5. Email CLAS.StaffCouncil@ucdenver.edu with any questions and visit our website for more information.

The Education through Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (EURēCA!) Program - which connects CU Denver undergraduates with faculty mentors eager to engage them in learning beyond the classroom - is currently accepting faculty proposals for AY’23-24 Student Assistant positions. These entry-level positions are full funded and supported by the Office...

Associate Professors of English Sarah Hagelin and Gillian Silverman’s co-authored book The New Female Antihero: The Disruptive Women of Twenty-First-Century US Television (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2022) has won the Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in Feminist Studies. The Award is given by the...

Nicky Beer, English Associate Professor, recently won a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry —one of just eight US poets who received the honor this year. Guggenheim Fellowships are highly prestigious and awarded "on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise.

The Denver Public Library is honoring History alum David Duffield with the Eleanor Gehers Award for his outstanding work with the Western History and Genealogy Department for collecting archives as part of the Colorado LGBTQ project for The Center on Colfax. This partnership has added 28 collections to the Western...

Associate Professor of History Gabriel Finkelstein’s essay "Paris or Berlin? Claude Bernard’s rivalry with Emil du Bois-Reymond" has been published in a special issue of History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences devoted to re-appraising Claude Bernard’s legacy. Finkelstein says, “I am honored to be the sole American scholar contributing...