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Andrea Lorenz accepted to CU Medical School

July 31, 2020

Congratulations to Andrea Lorenz, a former student in Dr. Charlesworth’s General Cell Biology class, for being accepted into Medical School at CU Anschutz.

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Maria Nikulkova's MS Thesis Defense

July 19, 2020

MS student Maria Nikulkova’s thesis defense will be taking place via Zoom on Thursday, July 23 rd at 10 am . Maria will be telling us about the great work she has been doing in Dr. Chris Miller’s lab during her thesis talk titled “Novel Genomes Reveal Phylogenetic Breadth and...

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Kristy Rushin accepted in to CU Denver Business School MBA Program

July 19, 2020

Kristy Rushin, former student of Dr. Cheri Jones, has been accepted into the CU Denver Business School 11 month MBA program for the 2020 Fall Semester. Congratulations Kristy on this accomplishment

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Kristin Olson accepted into the University of Alaska -Fairbanks PhD program

July 14, 2020

Kristin Olson, a CU Denver Biology student who worked with the Buma lab on an NSF funded Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) project in Alaska, has been accepted into the PhD program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and will be starting in Fall 2020. She will work on permafrost...

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Isha Kanu accepted into the MS in Creative Technology and Design Program at CU Boulder's ATLAS Institute

July 2, 2020

The Department would like to recognize Isha Kanu, a former student in Dr. Amanda Charlesworth's lab, for being accepted into the MS in Creative Technology and Design Program at CU Boulder's ATLAS Institute. Congratulations on all your hard work to achieve this accomplishment!

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Alexander Visser accepted to Johns Hopkins dual Biotech Masters/MBA program

June 15, 2020

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...

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Members of Wunder and Hartley Labs Publish in Royal Society Open Science

June 10, 2020

Scott Yanco, Andrew McDevitt, Mike Wunder and Laurel Hartley, in collaboration with Clive Trueman of the University of Southampton, recently published a review in the journal Royal Society Open Science : “A modern method of multiple working hypotheses to improve inference in ecology”. One-hundred and thirty years ago Thomas Chamberlin...

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Celebrating the Class of 2020 Virtual Spring Commencement Ceremony

May 15, 2020

Faculty and staff are invited to join the upcoming online celebration. On Saturday, May 16, 2020 at 9:00 a.m., CU Denver will be launching the virtual spring commencement ceremony. Degrees will be conferred, remarks will be presented by University Leadership, and student names will be read. Watching The Ceremony Each...

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Matthew Mitchell chooses Harvard Medical School

May 15, 2020

Matthew Mitchell , a student worker in Dr. Chris Phiel’s lab, has chosen to attend Harvard Medical School in the fall of 2020. Matthew received letters of acceptance from several institutions including, The Mayo Clinic, University of Colorado, University of Pittsburg, Creighton University, University of Minnesota, and the MD/PhD program...

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IB Students Receive CLAS Outstanding Student Awards

May 14, 2020

The Department would like to recognize and congratulate the following studenst for being awarded the CLAS Outstanding Student awards for Outstanding Bachelor of Science Spring 2020, Outstanding Master of Science Spring 2020, and Outstanding Doctoral Student Fall 2019. Outstanding Bachelor of Science Spring 2020 Shaely Folger (Integrative Biology) Throughout her...

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