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University of Colorado Denver Assistant Professor Brian Buma was awarded a $476,254 grant from the National Science Foundation . With this grant, Buma will explore what limits, if any, historical management patterns of carbon place on current carbon-management actions, and what that means for carbon management in the future. Carbon...

This summer , CU Denver’s seven deans announced a multiyear, $500,000 initiative meant to “strengthen research related to urban development at CU Denver through a transdisciplinary research initiative engaging all schools and colleges with a focus on enhancing life quality for all, now and into the future.” The initiative aligns...

CU Denver’s Timberley Roane passionately supports Native American/American Indian community Timberley Roane, Ph.D., is the recipient of the 2020 Chase Faculty Community Service award, recognition that honors her unrelenting support of the Native American/American Indian community in the education of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). An associate professor, Roane...

Fruit flies have the uncanny ability to wake up from a months-long hibernation right when their food of choice is at its peak. A new study coauthored by Gregory Ragland, Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology, found many genes responsible for setting the fruit flies’ internal alarm clocks, and that an...

Congratulations to Dr. Timberley Roane, Department of Integrative Biology Assoc. Professor for being the 2019-20 recipient of the Chase Faculty Community Service Award. The award recognizes a full-time University of Colorado Faculty member who, in addition to his or her university responsibilities, has, pro bono, provided exceptional educational, humanitarian, civic...

CU Connections, Sept. 24, 2020 issue The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $5 million in funding for six new research projects in computational biology, $1,049,639 of which goes to Chris Miller , associate professor in CU Denver’s Department of Integrative Biology , and his collaborators—Farnoush Banaei-Kashani from CU Denver,...

Congratulations to Dr. Brian Buma, Asst. Professor at UC Denver Integrative Biology on the peer reviewed paper officially announcing “The world's southernmost tree and the forests at the extreme tip of South America” . You can read the full article here .

Brian Buma was recently awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to study the effects of historical management patterns on future carbon sequestration projects in the US and Canada. The support totals $476,254 over three years and will result in the first spatially explicit carbon maps of the entire...

On July 6 th , Assistant Professor Annika Mosier, Senior Instructor Laurel Beck, and Associate Professors Amanda Charlesworth and Laurel Hartley presented the lecture “The Ecology and Biology of COVID-19” in the COVID-19: Colorado & Beyond free summer lecture series from CLAS: https://clas.ucdenver.edu/cpe/covid-19-colorado-beyond Dr. Annika Mosier Dr. Laurel Beck Dr...

In January of 2019, Dr. Brian Buma, Ecologist and Assistant Professor with CU Denver Department of Integrative Biology, gathered a team he described as, “… a really solid team of Chilean scientists. There was botanists. We had an archaeologist. We had some camp managers extraordinaire, bird ecologists—we basically had a...