Faculty

In Memoriam: The University of Colorado Denver suffered a great loss this summer with the passing of Dr. Candan Duran-Aydintug. Candan was Associate Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (CLAS). She was a valued member of the CU Denver and broader Denver metropolitan community for more than three decades. Her impact on students, the department, College, and community was profound and lasting

Homo naledi—a small-brained hominin featured in Netflix’s Cave of Bones—has sparked global debate over claimed intentional burial. Dr. Jamie Hodgkins, reviewer #1 on both rounds of peer review, challenged the behavioral claims made in the preprint and documentary. In the revised paper, she noted that only two original reviewers agreed to re-review, and just one supported the burial hypothesis. Hodgkins refuted the team’s public claim of unanimous reviewer support, calling their social media posts misleading and harmful to open science.

Huge thanks to everyone who joined our Julia Programming Workshop!

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.

A new study, led by federal agencies in collaboration with the University of Colorado Denver, shows that the whitebark pine tree could lose as much as 80 percent of its habitat to climate change in the next 25 years.

The Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences is proud to announce that PhD student Courtney Franzen has had her paper accepted for an oral presentation at the prestigious IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA).

We are proud to share that Dr. Emily presented her research "On the Convex Hull of the Graph of the Simple Monomial", at the Global Optimization Workshop (STOGO) at Stockholm, Sweden!

As wildfires grow larger and more frequent across the West, researchers from Colorado, Utah, and California are digging into how smoke affects the air—and our health.

A remote valley in western Wyoming became the epicenter of bold conservation conversations this August, when scientists, community leaders, and advocates gathered for the inaugural Saving Yellowstone Conservation Summit.

A new study led by University of Colorado Denver has uncovered how climate change and intensifying wildfires are disrupting dragonfly mating traits—threatening to push some species toward local extinction.