Innovation

What does chemistry have to do with cancer surgery? What can the humanities teach us about the future of health care? And how does going to college shape your happiness decades later? At CU Denver's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, these aren't separate questions — they're part of the same conversation.

Retired CU Denver chemist Larry Anderson continues global, student-connected research, most recently publishing Fulbright-based work on air quality near geothermal plants.

Research led by CU Denver finds cold and rain have the strongest short-term effects on bus use, while free fares and what a bus stop looks like can influence how riders respond to adverse weather.

Soumia Bardhan, associate professor of Communication and director of International Studies at CU Denver, received the 2026 Anita Taylor Outstanding Article Award from the OSCLG.

CU Denver helped launch a national meeting on nature and cognition and is advancing new research through a 2026 Psychonomic Society symposium.

Congratulations to Dr. Florian Pfender, on receiving the National Science Foundation award, "Flag Algebra and Semidefinite Programming" (Award #2554130), with total funding of $150,000. This is a collaborative award with Dr. Bernard Lidický, from Iowa State University, (Award #2554129, $150,000).

This research has the potential to make a meaningful impact on society by helping public agencies make investment decisions that are not only efficient but also equitable and broadly supported by the communities they serve.

CU Denver researchers use PODMM to speed up rarefied gas transport modeling in nanoporous media while maintaining strong accuracy.

CLAS celebrates Farhad Pourkamali-Anaraki’s SDM 2026 paper acceptance on conformal prediction for trustworthy aerial image classification in data-scarce settings.

CU Denver celebrates a CLAS research paper accepted to SIAM SDM 2026, advancing more reliable predictive uncertainty for real-world machine learning.