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Russell Sage Foundation Grant Awarded for 'The Intergenerational Effects of Import Competition'

Sept. 24, 2025

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.

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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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Picture of the project that works to show that role of water molecules in the toxic plaques, focusing on hydration shells around both native and chemically modified amyloid-beta species.

NIH Awards $467,000 Grant to Study Internal Water Dynamics in Alzheimer's Disease

Sept. 2, 2025

NIH funds $467,000 study led by Vugmeyster and Ostrovsky, investigating hydration shells of amyloid-beta peptides to uncover water’s role in Alzheimer’s plaque formation and progression.

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Chemistry Professor Hai Lin and Master’s Student Julia Roma show their poster at the Fall 2025 American Chemical Society National Meeting.

Chemistry at CU Denver: Real-World Research, Real Impact at the ACS National Meeting

Aug. 29, 2025

At CU Denver's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, we believe in research that matters. We're grounded in work that's accessible, innovative, and rooted in real-world impact. This August, Chemistry Professor and Department Chair, Dr. Hai Lin, along with Associate Professor, Dr. Emilie Guidez, and master's student, Julia Roma, brought...

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