As Colorado marks its 150th anniversary, CU Denver's Steve DelCastillo talks with Telemundo in rememberance of Casimiro Barela, a businessman and senator who championed a state constitution in Spanish, English, and German.
In my research on parents who reject vaccines, I regularly hear them describe their willingness to seek out medical care and hospitalization when their children get sick, or give them treatments like antibiotics, even if they view vaccines as unnecessary. But the assumption that hospitals can easily absorb an increase in vaccine-preventable diseases is flawed and dangerous.
CU Denver economics professor Hani Mansour studies what happens to labor markets during periods of immigration enforcement. His 2022 research on the Secure Communities program found ripple effects across the broader economy — including for native-born workers, with an estimated 0.8 jobs affected per deportation. Read the full interview on CPR News
A forest can look healthy from a distance and still be in trouble up close. That’s the concern driving a recent conversation in northern New Mexico about the southwestern white pine, a native tree found in the Santa Fe National Forest and across parts of the Southwest.
Olukayode Bakare, Visiting Scholar in International Relations and African Politics at CU Denver, weighed in on his views as a guest speaker on Al Jazeera's Inside Story, "Can the UN Security Council be reformed?"
CU Denver Prof. Diana Tomback explores why 25% to 35% of Wyoming’s forests are now dominated by “ghost forests” — standing dead timber from beetle epidemics and disease.
Political Science Prof. Michael Berry weighs in on Congress threatening to use its power of the purse to save a key Department of Agriculture research lab.
