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For the 2023-2024 Accadmic Year leadership for CLAS Staff Council will be: Michelle Médal (Chair) Kristen Salsbury (Vice-Chair) Maria Rase (Treasurer) Anne Beard (Secretary) Visit the CLAS Staff Council website to learn more about who we are and how we might support you: https://clas.ucdenver.edu/staff-council/

Candice Shelby, Professor of Philosophy, presented a paper, "Use of Psychedelics in Healing Fragmented Consciousness" for the Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, in Fresno, CA, on July 28. This conference promotes interaction among philosophers in all styles and areas of Philosophy. While at that conference, she also delivered...

Ethnic Studies Clinical Teaching Track Associate Professor Katy Mohrman’s book Exceptionally Queer: Mormon Peculiarity and U.S. Nationalism (2022), published with University of Minnesota Press, was recently awarded the Best Book Award by the Mormon History Association . In the book, Mohrman offers a powerful rethinking of Mormonism and its place...

David Hildebrand, Philosophy Professor, will present on the ethics of data and A.I. at two conferences this September. In Helsinki, Finland he presents “Autonomy and Ethics in an Age of Algorithmic A.I” at the University of Helsinki and “Algorithms, A.I. and Data in Education: New Promises and Core Values” at...

Xiaofei Gao, Assistant Professor of History, has been awarded a 2023 Luce/ACLS Early Career Fellowship in China Studies . This program is made possible by a major grant from the Henry Luce Foundation , and is administered by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the leading representative of American...

Chloe N. East, Assistant Professor in Economics, has a working paper out that is very relevant to debates related to work requirements for SNAP, The Effect of Means-Tested Transfers on Work: Evidence from Quasi-Randomly Assigned SNAP Caseworkers .

Honors ACS Certified BS in Chemistry 2020 Alum, current PhD Candidate in Planetary Science at UC Berkeley, and NSF GRFP Fellow Tanja Kovačević was recently featured in a Vox video profiling the National Ignition Facility explaining her work on the giant laser being used to replicate a planet’s core.

Political Science Associate Professor Tony Robinson’s second book on Korean studies to come out in the last year, A Flying Dragon , is the only English-language biography of the founding King of Korea’s 500-year Choson dynasty. The book was recently highlighted by Hankyoreh , one of Korea’s leading newspapers. His...

Philosophy Professor Candice Shelby presented a paper on June 9 entitled "Biological Coding in Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy," at the Ninth International Code Biology Conference in Guimaraes, Portugal. This conference brought together an international collection of biologists, neuroscientists, mathematicians, and linguists to highlight the role of codes in biology, from the molecular...

On May 25, the University of Chicago Press published Associate Professor of English John Tinnell’s new book, The Philosopher of Palo Alto : Mark Weiser, Xerox PARC, and the Original Internet of Things . In June, Tinnell delivered talks about his book at Stanford University, Books Inc., the Palo Alto...