Awards And Accolades

Colleen Donnelly was announced as the Recipient of the 2024/2025 CU Denver Faculty Assembly Award. Colleen has been tirelessly committed to the CU Denver community, particularly through her advocacy for disability awareness and accessibility across campus. Her work has helped ensure that our campus is more inclusive and supportive for...

CU Denver’s Creative Writing Program is proud to celebrate the winners of the 2025 Lit Fest Creative Writing Scholarships ! Offered through the CU Denver Department of English and the Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URCA) , these scholarships recognize outstanding student writers ready to take their craft...

After a busy school year, springtime offers us a chance to stop and reflect on the people who help make our university unique. And, at the annual Milo Awards, there are so many reasons to applaud the people who help shape our students’ experiences, including the students themselves. Find the...

The Alzheimer’s Association has awarded a prestigious three-year, $200,000 research grant to Dr. Ronica Rooks, professor in the Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences at CU Denver. Using national, secondary data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the Census-enacted HRS (linking the HRS to United States' business information),...

Congratulations to Dr. Joshua French (lead), Pamela Whitten, Robert Rostermundt, Yaning Liu, Farhad Pourkamali, and Yongxia Kuang from the Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences for being approved for a $63,413 award from the Colorado Department of Higher Education. The following people have won the Mathematics and Data Science Z-degrees...

Dr. Woonghee Lee, assistant professor in CU Denver's Chemistry Department, was recently awarded the prestigious BKI Early Career Award from the Korean Magnetic Resonance Society (KMRS). The award recognizes Dr. Lee's significant contributions to the field of biomolecular nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), particularly in his development of essential software tools...

Congratulations to Dr. Yaning Liu for being coPI on NIH Grant Number 1R01AG087163-01A1 entitled "Quantifying the Integrity of Sleep-Dependent Memory Processing in Pathological Aging and Alzheimer's Disease: Toward Inexpensive Electroencephalographic Wearable Applications". The award runs from 2024 to 2029, totals $3,691,683. Abstract: Simple single-channel electroencephalography (EEG) sleep recordings contain information...

Isabel Corona Guevara’s remarkable talk, “Data-driven surrogate modeling using sparse Bayesian machine learning with applications to uncertainty quantification,” has earned her a prestigious award from the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science for an outstanding research presentation at the 2024 National Diversity in STEM Conference in...

In December 2024, Dr. Jung-Jae Lee received a grant from the Cancer League of Colorado to pursue the project, “Precision Surgery in Head and Neck Cancer with advanced Chemiluminescent Nanoprobes.” Founded in 1969, the Cancer League of Colorado supports research in the discovery of the causes of many types of...

Support from an anonymous donor marks a milestone in the department’s ability to recruit, retain, and support talented students from diverse backgrounds