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Jennifer Reich Featured In WalletHub's 'Most Caring Cities in America'

Dec. 10, 2024

When we need a helping hand, we sometimes need to seek assistance from our local government and community. We asked a panel of experts for their ideas on how cities can provide the care that residents need and address other significant challenges.

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BBC News gains Dr. Chloe East's perspectives on universities' advice to US students abroad

Dec. 10, 2024

US universities have been emailing international students and staff advising them to return to campus before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January, amid concerns over his plans for mass deportations. "All international students are worried right now," University of Colorado Denver professor Chloe East told the BBC. Trump, a...

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Dr. Andrew Scahill sits in interview with 9News to discuss 2 year anniversary of Rainbow Cult

9News features Dr. Andrew Scahill's work in film and celebrates second anniversary of Rainbow Cult

Dec. 10, 2024

Dr. Andrew Scahill of the CU Denver English Department, was recently highlighted on 9News, where interviewers asked about his work as a film professor and celebrating two years of Rainbow Cult , which has evolved from its origins as a backyard movie night offered by Dr Scahill, to selling out...

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Dr. Cameron Blevins gives insights on US Post history for UnHerd article - "How mailmen saved rural America"

Dec. 10, 2024

At the core of this social trust were institutions, like the Post Office, that for Blevins represent the veritable cartilage and guts of the nation. “The US Post,” he says, “is a model of what an effective government could be.” The Postal Service most certainly stayed close to the expanding...

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Dr. Esther Sullivan lends expertise to NBC News' report on Latino mobile home park residents denouncing conditions and alleging discrimination

Dec. 10, 2024

"However, these houses are not classified as real estate but as personal property, and that means they have fewer protections,” said Esther Sullivan, an associate sociology professor at the University of Colorado in Denver and author of the book “Manufactured Insecurity: Mobile Home Parks and Americans’ Tenuous Right to Place.”...

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Dr. Kristin Kilbourn speaks to NBC News about high rates of depression in people with cancer

About a third of cancer patients struggle with depression, anxiety and other psychiatric disorders, although these conditions often go undetected and undiagnosed. Kristin Kilbourn, a clinical psychologist at the University of Colorado Denver, said oncologists often don’t want to open up this “can of worms,” not to mention that mental...

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Wall Street Journal cites research by CU Denver Economics Professors Velasquez, Mansour, and East in article on post-election inflation

Nov. 8, 2024

Economists at the University of Colorado Denver, studied the deportations carried out by the Bush and Obama administrations between 2008 and 2014. They found that, for every one million unauthorized workers expelled from the U.S., 88,000 American workers lost their jobs. That is because immigrant workers in certain industries such...

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Sarah Fields weighs in on 'Fairness in sports'

“Maybe it’s because of the nice, sanitized way in which we consume sport as an audience,” says Sarah Fields, who studies how sports intersects with American culture. She says sports thrive on “our innate, maybe human desire — but certainly American desire — for fairness.” “It’s a standardized field with...

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Kevin Masters breaks down 'Why everybody's running marathons now'

Nov. 5, 2024

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Political Science Faculty Interviewed on CBS Colorado Springs KKTV11

Nov. 5, 2024

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