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Earlier research led by University of Colorado Denver Professor Chloe East found that the suppression of undocumented workers led to spillover effects that weakened demand for U.S.-born laborers within local economies.

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...

In December 2024, Dr. Jung-Jae Lee received a grant from the Cancer League of Colorado to pursue the project, “Precision Surgery in Head and Neck Cancer with advanced Chemiluminescent Nanoprobes.” Founded in 1969, the Cancer League of Colorado supports research in the discovery of the causes of many types of...

Chemistry students/researchers (Vi Tho Vy Nguyen, Haydee Ramirez, Brody Reynolds), from the lab of Prof. Marino Resendiz, were selected for poster and oral presentations at the RNA Canada 2024 conference in Ottawa, Canada. In addition, chemistry students/researchers (Vincent Conrad Oppenheimer and Vi Tho Vy Nguyen), from the lab of Prof...

Chemistry students/researchers Vashita Jain, Shawn Schowe, and Haydee Ramirez published their work recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in collaboration with their mentor Dr. Marino Resendiz and others. See link here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2317865121

The Denver City Council just made it a lot easier to build accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, in neighborhoods across the city. The biggest change: Homeowners won’t have to get a rezoning before building a cottage or other accessory dwelling. The change could result in a few hundred more ADUs...

Expelling noncitizens on a mass scale is likely to raise prices on goods and services and lower employment rates for U.S. workers, many economists say.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to conduct “the largest deportation effort in American history,” no matter the price tag—but the economic costs of such a campaign may be bigger than he has bargained for.

Adjunctification is a peer-reviewed journal by and for contingent faculty in higher education. We publish scholarship produced by non-tenure track faculty, including instructors, lecturers, adjuncts, research associates, graduate teaching assistants, etc. The inaugural issue was published in August 2024 and the call is now open for submissions to the second...

Dr. Otañez (anthropology) and Dr. Aaraón Díaz Mendiburo, Centro de Investigaciones sobre América del Norte (CISAN) Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México published a co-edited collection of four books Breaking Stigmas: Art and Cannabis in North America. The books cover activism, public/private spaces, storytelling, film, television, imagery, and music. CISAN is...