Awards And Accolades

CU Denver professor Soumia Bardhan earned WSCA’s Distinguished Teaching Award for inclusive, innovative teaching that connects classroom learning to global contexts.

For the second year in a row, a CU Denver chemistry professor has claimed Colorado's top chemistry honor.

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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...