Awards And Accolades

Dr. Michael Moore, Associate Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Colorado Denver's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has been named the 2026 recipient of the George A. Bartholomew Award by the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. This national honor recognizes Dr. Moore's career-spanning...

Amy Wachholtz, PhD, MDiv, MSCP, has been named Educator of the Year by the American Psychological Association (APA), Division 55—recognizing her leadership in developing and launching CU Denver’s post-doctoral Master of Science (MS) in Clinical Psychopharmacology.

Graduate scholarship in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences reaches far beyond the classroom—and this year’s Outstanding Graduate Award recipients exemplify that impact. Jessica Loeffler, Indira Saha, and Alyssa Hohorst were named Fall 2025 honorees for graduate work that advances scientific understanding, centers community voices, and strengthens teaching and...

Dr. Emilie Guidez , Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, received the 2025 Love of Learning Award from the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi , the nation's oldest and most selective academic honor society spanning all disciplines. Since joining CU Denver in 2017, Dr. Guidez has built a...

Dr. Jung-Jae Lee , Associate Professor in University of Colorado Denver's Department of Chemistry, has received a Wings of Hope for Pancreatic Cancer Research grant to develop an innovative imaging tool that could help surgeons more effectively identify and remove pancreatic tumors. Dr. Lee’s project centers on " advanced nanoprobes...

CU Denver undergraduate researcher Dagoberto Grijalva-Flores earned the Best Student Poster Award at the 2025 National Organic Chemistry Symposium (NOS), hosted by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in upstate New York. A student in the lab of Dr. Marino Resendiz , Associate Professor of Chemistry, Grijalva-Flores is exploring how oxidative lesions in...

In July 2025, Michael Moore, assistant professor in the Department of Integrative Biology, was awarded more than $640,000 from the National Science Foundation. With this NSF grant, Dr. Moore's lab will use dragonflies to test if low oxygen prevents animal species from moving to higher elevations in response to climate...

At CU Denver's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, we believe in the power of real stories to drive real change. That's why we're proud to celebrate Dr. Cameron Blevins, Director of Digital Initiatives and Associate Teaching Professor of History, whose innovative research is shining a light on overlooked voices...

Economics faculty members Hani Mansour, James Reeves, and Andrea Velasquez, together with Pamela Medina from the University of Toronto, have been awarded a Russell Sage Foundation grant.

Associate Professor of History Rachel Gross's book, Shopping All the Way to the Woods: How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America (Yale University Press, 2024), was awarded the Colorado Book Award in History. The Colorado Book Awards, a program of Colorado Humanities and the Colorado Center for the Book,...