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Lorenzo Blackshear, CU Denver CLAS Student researching linguistics

Undergraduate Research at CU Denver: CLAS Students and Peers Power Their Future Paths

April 29, 2025

At CU Denver, students don’t have to wait until grad school to get involved with research. Our Office of Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities  offers many opportunities for students to engage in—and get paid for—research on topics that suit their academic and career goals. Each year, many of these students get...

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CU Denver Students are Helping Make Castles More Accessible

CU Denver Students are Helping Make Castles More Accessible

April 25, 2025

Ireland’s largest castle boasts 20 sides, three-meter-thick walls, and the remains of what was once a moat. The Trim Castle, which dates to 1172 and took 30 years to build, is often referred to as one of the country’s most impressive medieval structures (you may even recognize it from some...

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World Quantum Day at CU Denver

World Quantum Day at CU Denver

April 25, 2025

CU Denver Lynx celebrated World Quantum Day on April 14 with activities in the North Classroom Atrium. Students had the opportunity to ask experts questions about quantum computing and watch quantum experiments in action. The event was hosted by CU Denver’s Quantum Information Technology Certificate Program , which is a...

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Christopher Beekman of CU Denver's Anthropology Department

Beekman and colleagues publish on 8500 year record of changes in climate, lake levels, and settlement in western Mexico

April 17, 2025

Chris Beekman of the Department of Anthropology worked with colleagues from the Museum of Northern Arizona and El Colegio de Michoacan to reconstruct changing lake levels and their relationship to patterns in archaeological settlement in the Magdalena Lake Basin, Jalisco, Mexico. Magdalena Lake was drained in the 20th century, and...

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Cast members of the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Season 1

Professors Mohrman and Fischer publish article on the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City in American Quarterly

April 8, 2025

Dr. K. Mohrman (Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies) and Mia Fischer (Associate Professor, Department of Communication) publish “‘As-Salaam-Alaikum, Bitches!’: The Biopolitics of Secularism, Neoliberal Multiculturalism, and The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City ” in American Quarterly (Volume 77, Number 1: 105-131), the journal of record for American...

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Ronica Rooks, professor in Health and Behavioral Sciences at CU Denver

Dr. Ronica Rooks Awarded $200K by Alzheimer’s Association to Study Employment’s Role in Reducing Racial Disparities in Dementia Risk

April 1, 2025

The Alzheimer’s Association has awarded a prestigious three-year, $200,000 research grant to Dr. Ronica Rooks, professor in the Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences at CU Denver. Using national, secondary data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the Census-enacted HRS (linking the HRS to United States' business information),...

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Emma Bunkley of CU Denver's Health and Behavioral Sciences Department

In “The Weight of Rumor” Emma Bunkley Explores How Weight Loss, Diabetes, and Gossip Disrupt Senegalese Women’s Communities

April 1, 2025

Published recently in American Anthropologist , Emma Bunkley examines how weight loss caused by Type II diabetes can trigger harmful rumors and social isolation for women in Senegal. Her article, “The Weight of Rumor,” reveals how stigma surrounding weight loss not only delays diagnosis but also deepens the emotional and...

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Book cover for Entangled Words, which Beekman and colleagues contributed to

Christopher Beekman Publishes on the History of the Americas

March 19, 2025

Christopher Beekman has published a long chapter with his colleagues on "Structure and History in the Americas: Closed and Interconnected?" in Harvard's History of the World series. The chapter occurs in the sixth and final volume of the series to be published, Entangled Worlds: 600–1350 , edited by Daniel G...

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Sarah Horton from CU Denver CLAS, Anthropology, stands against a brick wall

Sarah Horton Publishes on Latinx Immigrants' Access to Care in Colorado

March 19, 2025

Dr. Sarah Horton from the CU Denver Department of Anthropology, published an article in Social Science Medicine examining how public hospital staff in a “new immigrant destination” in Colorado’s mountain resort area conceptualized recent Latinx arrivals as a “threat” to the hospital's finances and image, implementing spatializing strategies to keep...

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Breaking Stigmas: Art and Cannabis in North America - Book Launch

March 5, 2025

This in-person and virtual event includes presentations in Spanish and English from over a dozen contributors to the set of four books called Breaking Stigmas: Art and Cannabis in North America.

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