Faculty

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...

The faculty professional development fall grant cycle is now open (deadline of October 24 th ). These grants are available to IRC, tenure-track, and tenured faculty. We encourage your faculty to apply! There will be another grant cycle in the spring semester.

CU Denver Chemistry Professor Woonghee Lee recently played a prominent role in a significant international workshop titled "Cutting-Edge Techniques in NMR and Mass Spectrometry." Professor Lee delivered the keynote address, "Advancing Automated Protein Chemical Shift Assignments through AI/ML/CV." The five-day event, held from July 1 to 5, brought together leading...

Professor Haobin Wang from the CU Denver Department of Chemistry has been named a 2025 Romberg Visiting Professor . Professor Wang is internationally recognized for his expertise in quantum dynamics, especially in large many-body systems. His groundbreaking contributions to the multilayer multiconfiguration time-dependent Hartree (ML-MCTDH) theory have shaped the way...

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).