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Dr. Jung-Jae Lee , Associate Professor in University of Colorado Denver's Department of Chemistry, has received a Wings of Hope for Pancreatic Cancer Research grant to develop an innovative imaging tool that could help surgeons more effectively identify and remove pancreatic tumors. Dr. Lee’s project centers on " advanced nanoprobes...

The faculty professional development fall grant cycle is now open (deadline of October 24 th ). These grants are available to IRC, tenure-track, and tenured faculty. We encourage your faculty to apply! There will be another grant cycle in the spring semester.

CU Denver Anthropology students and faculty showcased innovative, real-world research and mentorship at RMBAA 2025, reflecting our values of impact and inclusivity.

CU Denver Chemistry Professor Woonghee Lee recently played a prominent role in a significant international workshop titled "Cutting-Edge Techniques in NMR and Mass Spectrometry." Professor Lee delivered the keynote address, "Advancing Automated Protein Chemical Shift Assignments through AI/ML/CV." The five-day event, held from July 1 to 5, brought together leading...

CU Denver undergraduate researcher Dagoberto Grijalva-Flores earned the Best Student Poster Award at the 2025 National Organic Chemistry Symposium (NOS), hosted by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in upstate New York. A student in the lab of Dr. Marino Resendiz , Associate Professor of Chemistry, Grijalva-Flores is exploring how oxidative lesions in...

Professor Haobin Wang from the CU Denver Department of Chemistry has been named a 2025 Romberg Visiting Professor . Professor Wang is internationally recognized for his expertise in quantum dynamics, especially in large many-body systems. His groundbreaking contributions to the multilayer multiconfiguration time-dependent Hartree (ML-MCTDH) theory have shaped the way...

In Memoriam: The University of Colorado Denver suffered a great loss this summer with the passing of Dr. Candan Duran-Aydintug. Candan was Associate Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (CLAS). She was a valued member of the CU Denver and broader Denver metropolitan community for more than three decades. Her impact on students, the department, College, and community was profound and lasting

Homo naledi—a small-brained hominin featured in Netflix’s Cave of Bones—has sparked global debate over claimed intentional burial. Dr. Jamie Hodgkins, reviewer #1 on both rounds of peer review, challenged the behavioral claims made in the preprint and documentary. In the revised paper, she noted that only two original reviewers agreed to re-review, and just one supported the burial hypothesis. Hodgkins refuted the team’s public claim of unanimous reviewer support, calling their social media posts misleading and harmful to open science.

Please join us on Oct 9th in the Student Commons Building room 1600 5:30-7:30 as we celebrate the launch of the Colorado Labor Education Collaborative

Dr. Christopher Beekman of Anthropology and his colleagues have published "A collaborative synthetic view of migration in archaeology: Addressing challenges for policymakers" in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. This article presents the latest results of a collaborative project that seeks to develop recommendations for policymakers on migration by drawing upon...