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Nominate your outstanding CLAS Staff Member by March 9, 2026! CLAS Staff Council's offers the following five awards for college staff members in these categories: Outstanding Newcomer Outstanding Student Engagement Outstanding Community Engagement Outstanding Inclusive Excellence Outstanding Staff Award Each award comes with a cash prize.

If you've ever wondered why human childbirth can be difficult, you're not alone. It's a question that sits at the crossroads of biology, culture, and health care. In a recent New Scientist feature, journalist Colin Barras explored the debate among anthropologists about how evolution has shaped the human birth process...

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 philosophy professor David Hildebrand spent January 2026 speaking on AI ethics and the future of human agency, bringing CU Denver's real-world, people-centered perspective to audiences in the United States and Europe. Across three talks, Hildebrand addressed a shared challenge: as AI systems shape how we learn, decide, and...

From left to right: Troy Butler views a research poster, Elias LaFord presents a poem, Laura Argys explains her work On February 12 th , the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences gathered faculty researchers for CLAS Mixtape, an event showcasing the diverse and impactful scholarship happening across the college...

What do you get when you combine discussions on species’ adaptations to climate change, quantum computing, and a 10,000-year-old domesticated dog?

Tuesday, March 3; 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Register to be a mentor or a mentee by Thursday, February 25th, on the CFDA's calendar.

Dr. Michael Moore, Associate Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Colorado Denver's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has been named the 2026 recipient of the George A. Bartholomew Award by the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. This national honor recognizes Dr. Moore's career-spanning...

CU Denver Chemistry faculty, Dr. Susan Schelble, and staff member, Dr. Pamela Nagafuji, organized and presented at the Ethics and Laboratory Safety symposium at the Pacifichem 2025 Conference held in Honolulu, Hawaii, from December 15 to 20, 2025. Co-hosted by the American, Australian, Canadian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and New Zealand...