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Whitebark Pine Faces 80% Decline in Current Habitat by 2050: What That Means for Bears, Birds, Farmers, and Ranchers

Sept. 23, 2025

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.

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Publication Achievement: PhD Student Courtney Franzen’s Paper Accepted for Oral Presentation at the Prestigious IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA)

Sept. 22, 2025

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).

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Faculty Dr. Emily Speakman Attends Stockholm Global Optimization Workshop (STOGO) 2025

Sept. 22, 2025

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!

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Smoke from Idaho’s Elkhorn fire blankets the Salmon River on July 31, 2023. Photo credit: Brian Maffly.

Wildfires Are Changing the Air We Breathe—Here’s What That Means for Your Health

Sept. 22, 2025

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.

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CU Denver Attends Summit, Sparks Collaboration to Safeguard Yellowstone's Future

Sept. 12, 2025

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.

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Sarah Nalley, a PhD student in CU Denver’s Integrative Biology program, studies how wildfires impact dragonflies.

Dragonflies Survived Asteroids—But Wildfires and Climate Change May Push Them to Extinction According to CU Denver Study

Sept. 10, 2025

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.

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Communication Expert Contributes to Proposed Federal Legislation

Sept. 5, 2025

Hamilton Bean advances effective emergency alert systems through research, federal legislation, and agency collaboration, addressing public warning failures to improve reliability, clarity, and community trust in crisis communication.

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University Offers Psychedelic Therapy Training— The program is the first of its kind in the country

Aug. 27, 2025

MedPage Today highlights the launch of CU Denver's Center for Psychedelic Research Facilitator Training Program, speaking with Director Vivian Shyu.

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CU Denver Prison Education Program featured in 'Hotlines'

Aug. 19, 2025

Dr. Stephen Hartnett, Director of the University of Colorado-Denver Prison Education Program (PEP), joins CRJ's Seth Ready and Remerg's Carol Peeples in the CRJ studio, along with Sean Mueller, a previously incarcerated student of PEP. They discuss how PEP is creating a culture shift in Colorado prisons, and they articulate how their fight to end mass incarceration begins with the mindset that knowledge is power.

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UNC, CU Denver Explore How to Align More Courses Towards Colorado’s Quantum Future

Aug. 18, 2025

University of Northern Colorado (UNC) Professors visit CU Denver's Quantum Information Technology Certificate program to explore integrating innovative quantum coursework into its own astronomy and physics programs, preparing students for a rapidly evolving quantum economy.

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