Faculty News

Brian Buma and Lukasz Pawlik of Poland (a CU Denver visiting scholar with Buma, in summer 2019), published a review article on how the evolution of trees may have impacted the terrain and climate of the Devonian period, a timeframe with mass extinctions and swings of climate. Several other Polish...

Brian Buma is a member of the steering committee for the new NSF sponsored Trans-Arctic networking program. Arctic port cities are witnessing increased maritime traffic; rural villages are facing displacement; and species are shifting their ranges north. These new mobilities present both challenges and opportunities for the North, but a...

Laurel Hartley (Integrative Biology) Associate Professor of Integrative Biology Laurel Hartley was recently given the honor of being designated a University of Colorado President’s Teaching Scholar . She joins a prestigious group of more than 50 active Scholars from all four campuses. Dr. Hartley has a deep interest in improving...

The corona virus couldn’t stop CU Denver from recognizing the 2020 Faculty Awards recipients! On April 20, provost and executive vice chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs, Roderick Nairn, PhD emailed the CU Denver Community announcing this year’s awardees! Congratulations go out to the Integrative Biology awardees for the following...

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...

Landslides kill thousands each year, mainly in developing countries but also along the coasts and in mountainous areas of the United States. However we know fairly little about what controls their runout and impacts. The work here is highly interdisciplinary, linking forest ecology with geomorphologists - we linked forest biomass,...

CU Denver study examines how long before wildfires could burn same terrain again. Fox 31 News interviews Dr. Brian Buma , Assistant Professor, with the Dept. of Integrative Biology, about the possibilities of wildfires buring the same turrain over and over. You can watch the full interview here .

Landslides kill thousands each year, mainly in developing countries but also along the coasts and in mountainous areas of the United States. However we know fairly little about what controls their runout and impacts. The work here is highly interdisciplinary, linking forest ecology with geomorphologists - we linked forest biomass,...

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 was to read a couple of...

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...