Innovation

On January 28th, 2025, over two dozen faculty and staff attended CFDA's Tuesday Faculty Conversation: "AI and the Future of Education: Transformative or Inevitable?" hosted by CU Denver Philosophy Professor David Hildebrand along with Karen Sobel (Center for Faculty Development). The discussion began with the question, "What is one major...

Dr. Woonghee Lee, assistant professor in CU Denver's Chemistry Department, was recently awarded the prestigious BKI Early Career Award from the Korean Magnetic Resonance Society (KMRS). The award recognizes Dr. Lee's significant contributions to the field of biomolecular nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), particularly in his development of essential software tools...

Congratulations to Dr. Yaning Liu for being coPI on NIH Grant Number 1R01AG087163-01A1 entitled "Quantifying the Integrity of Sleep-Dependent Memory Processing in Pathological Aging and Alzheimer's Disease: Toward Inexpensive Electroencephalographic Wearable Applications". The award runs from 2024 to 2029, totals $3,691,683. Abstract: Simple single-channel electroencephalography (EEG) sleep recordings contain information...

Dr. Troy Butler and co-authors published their article, "Sequential Maximal Updated Density Parameter Estimation for Dynamical Systems With Parameter Drift," in the International Journal for Numerical Methods. The article presents a novel method for generating sequential parameter estimates and quantifying epistemic uncertainty in dynamical systems within a data-consistent framework. The...

The POKY team, led by Prof. Woonghee Lee in the Chemistry department (right in photo), proudly announces the publication of their article “A-SIMA/A-MAP: A Comprehensive Toolkit for NMR-based Metabolomics Analysis” in the journal Metabolomics. This groundbreaking work introduces two innovative computational tools—A-SIMA (Advanced-Software for Interactive Metabolite Analysis) and A-MAP (A...

Isabel Corona Guevara’s remarkable talk, “Data-driven surrogate modeling using sparse Bayesian machine learning with applications to uncertainty quantification,” has earned her a prestigious award from the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science for an outstanding research presentation at the 2024 National Diversity in STEM Conference in...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau's January 8, 2025 Report and Order advances the availability of Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) for persons with limited English proficiency. The Report and Order requires commercial mobile service providers that participate in WEA to implement multilingual templates that alert...

Dr. Masoud Mahmoodi-Shahrebabaki from the CU Denver English Department recently published an article, " Relationships Between Reading Attitude, Metacognitive Awareness of Reading Strategies and Reading Motivation " in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education . The article examines the connections between reading attitudes, motivation, and metacognitive awareness of reading...

CU Denver Chemistry undergraduate students Bailey Frazier and Karan Basaves presented their recent research in a poster at the Colorado Proteinopathy Symposium in December 2024. Their poster is titled "Hydration Water Dynamics in Globular Villin Headpiece and Amyloid Fibrils, Using Deuterium and Oxygen-17 Solid-State NMR." Bailey and Karan worked in...

On December 5, Stephen J. Hartnett, professor of communication and director of the CU Denver College-in-Prison Program , delivered a 90-minute presentation on "The Prison-Industrial Complex as a Driver of Public Health" before the Touro University of Public Health. Hartnett was joined by community partners Carol Peeples, the Director of...