Spotlight

Diana Tomback Joins Fish & Wildlife Service Whitebark Pine Recovery Team

July 26, 2023

Diana F. Tomback, Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology, recently accepted a nomination to be one of a dozen people on the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Whitebark Pine Recovery Team . Tomback is now on four working groups associated with this effort (Restoration, Nutcracker, Monitoring, Indigenous) and co-chair...

Read more about Diana Tomback Joins Fish & Wildlife Service Whitebark Pine Recovery Team

Sara Branco Awarded $1.1M Educational Grant

May 11, 2023

Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology Sara Branco was recently awarded a $1,169,284 Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Director’s Science Program grant entitled ‘ Myco-Ed: Mycological Curriculum for Education and Discovery’ . This multi-institution effort lead by the JGI and involving the Arizona Genomics Institute, CU Denver, CU Boulder,...

Read more about Sara Branco Awarded $1.1M Educational Grant

Priscilla Burrows and Damian Dunford Host WSCEC

May 11, 2023

The annual Western States Chemical Education Conference was hosted April 22-23 by Priscilla Burrow and Damian Dunford, faculty in the Chemistry department. Students and faculty from 14 different colleges and universities participated in workshops, panel discussions, roundtables, and a poster session. Attendees discussed topics such as student motivation, ways to...

Read more about Priscilla Burrows and Damian Dunford Host WSCEC

Chloe East and Barton Willage Appointed NBER Faculty Research Fellows

April 27, 2023

Assistant Professors Chloe East and Barton Willage, from the Department of Economics, have been appointed Faculty Research Fellows at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). East was selected for the Program on Children group, and Willage for the Health Economics group. The NBER is the leading nonprofit economic research...

Read more about Chloe East and Barton Willage Appointed NBER Faculty Research Fellows

Diane Fritz Appointed President of the US Board of OpenStreetMap

April 27, 2023

Diane Fritz, Geospatial Data Scientist at the Auraria Library and instructor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, has worked for many years with Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Applications (FOSS4G) applied to diverse physical and human geography topics. She has been on the OSM US advisory...

Read more about Diane Fritz Appointed President of the US Board of OpenStreetMap

Award-Winning Northeast Asia Panel Featured Xiaofei Gao

April 27, 2023

Xiaofei Gao, an Assistant Profession in History, was on the panel, " Labor and Knowledge Production in Modern Northeast Asia ," which won the Hilary Conroy Award at the Association of Asian Studies (AAS) annual conference in Boston, March 16-19, 2023. This award recognizes academic excellence in AAS Annual Conference...

Read more about Award-Winning Northeast Asia Panel Featured Xiaofei Gao

Diana Tomback Participates in "Hope and Restoration" Whitebark Pine Event

April 27, 2023

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...

Read more about Diana Tomback Participates in "Hope and Restoration" Whitebark Pine Event

Political Science Student Needs Faculty Help with Capstone Project Survey

April 27, 2023

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...

Read more about Political Science Student Needs Faculty Help with Capstone Project Survey

Please Take the CU Denver Open Educational Resources (OER) Committee Survey

April 27, 2023

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...

Read more about Please Take the CU Denver Open Educational Resources (OER) Committee Survey

CLAS Staff Council Welcomes Staff Onboarded in AYs 2022 and 2023

April 12, 2023

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...

Read more about CLAS Staff Council Welcomes Staff Onboarded in AYs 2022 and 2023

Pages