From Dishwasher to Doctoral Student: Professor Charlie Ferguson Receives Alumni Award There will always be brainy bookworms and virtuoso valedictorians. But that was not Charlie Ferguson . “I was a really, really, really bad student,” he admits. “Neither one of my parents graduated from high school. There was no way...

Hunter Sauerland , a former student of Dr. Amanda Charlesworth, recently reached out to her to let her know that he has been admitted to the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences for the Air Force, starting Fall 2020.

Ignacio Escobar Blazques , a former student of Dr. Cheri Jones , recently reached out to her to let her know that he has been admitted to the Saba University School of Medicine!

The Department would like to introduce you to our newest faculty member, Dr. Sara Branco! Dr. Branco will be facilitating the 2020/21 Fall and Spring Seminar Series and also teaching Introduction to Evolution. If you'd like to learn more about Dr. Branco, please visit her faculty page on the Department's...

John G. Swallow, Professor and Chair Department of Integrative Biology, recently had an invited peer-reviewed commentary published in the Journal of Experimental Biology . “The stalk-eyed fly as a model for aggression – is there a conserved role for 5-HT between vertebrates and invertebrates?” represents a synthesis of the PhD...

Dr. Cheri Jones Dr. Hannah Anchordoquy The CU News newsletter ran an article in their January 13 th edition congratulating CU Denver on it’s 74 th Birthday. To celebrate students, faculty and staff were asked to share what they loved most about the university and what a nice surprise it...

Moffat County wolves open up a new pack of issues. “It’s built into their social system to avoid mating with relatives, so they would not form a mated pair,” University of Colorado-Denver Professor Diana Tomback said of the sibling wolves. “The perpetuation of this pack is going to depend on...

“A pack of wolves has been spotted in Colorado for the first time in over 70 years, Park Officials say” Dr. Diana Tomback (Professor, CU Denver Integrative Biology) and Michael Robinson (Center for Biological Diversity) were interviewed by Newsweek Magazine for the January 9, 2020 issue about the apparent return...

In a seminar titled 38+ Years of Research at the University of Colorado Dr. Stith summarized his career at CU Denver highlighting students, career issues and noting past work on kinases and phosphatases in cell division, insulin and Glucophage action.

Alexander Visser, a former student of Dr. Cheri Jones and Dr. Lisa Johansen, has been accepted into the Johns Hopkins dual Biotech Masters/MBA programs for the 2020 Fall semester. Alexander was a student in Dr. Jones' Principles of Ecology and Parasitology courses and, Dr. Lisa Johansen's General Biology, Cell Biology...