Communication

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Local Officials Have a Powerful Tool to Warn Residents of Emergencies. They Don’t Always Use It.

Sept. 8, 2025

A recent ProPublica investigation into nationwide emergency alert failures features insight from CU Denver College of Liberal Arts and Sciences professor Hamilton Bean, highlighting critical gaps in local preparedness and the urgent need for better communication systems.

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Communication Expert Contributes to Proposed Federal Legislation

Sept. 5, 2025

Hamilton Bean advances effective emergency alert systems through research, federal legislation, and agency collaboration, addressing public warning failures to improve reliability, clarity, and community trust in crisis communication.

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Hartnett and Dodge publish essay celebrating Taiwan's Free Speech Hero

Aug. 8, 2025

Drs. Stephen J. Hartnett and Patrick Shaou-Whea Dodge, from the Department of Communication, have published "'Choose the Good and Be Stubborn': Celebrating Nylon Cheng, Memory Activism, and the Fight for Democracy in Taiwan."

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Why it can be hard to warn people about dangers like floods – communication researchers explain the role of human behavior

July 14, 2025

Flash floods like the one that swept down the Guadalupe River in Texas on July 4, 2025, can be highly unpredictable. While there are sophisticated flood prediction models and different types of warning systems in some places, effective flood protection requires extensive preparedness and awareness.

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Sexual Privacy in the Era of AI: Hasinoff Advocates for Consent-Based Reform

June 25, 2025

Amy Hasinoff, CU Denver associate professor of Communication, explores how AI technologies that generate synthetic sexual images are outpacing current legal protections. In her latest piece for the Gender Policy Report , she argues that preventing image-based sexual abuse requires consent-based standards, for both real and synthetic images. Hasinoff challenges...

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CU Denver's Prison Education Program Turns Academic Advising into Social Justice

June 25, 2025

On Friday, May 30, CU Denver Prison Education Program (PEP) Academic Advisor, Shana Medah , and CU Denver PEP alum, Sean Mueller , delivered a presentation entitled, “Hope and Redemption: Advising Incarcerated and Recently Released Students for a Transformational Education.” They spoke before a packed conference room at the University...

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Communication Professor’s Book Earns National Sports History Award

June 24, 2025

Sarah Fields , professor of Communication, is co-editor of Sports Through the Lens: Essays on 25 Iconic Photographs , which received the 2024 Book Award (Anthology) from the North American Society for Sport History . The project was supported in part by CLAS, the Department of Communication, and the Office of Research Services.

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Hamilton Bean’s FCC Comments Highlighted in Communications Daily

May 20, 2025

Communications Daily is a national publication known as “the bible of the telecom industry” that covers news and analysis on the telecommunications industry. It is known for its in-depth reporting and analysis of industry trends. As cited in the story , and mentioned in his FCC comments regarding proposed changes...

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CU Denver's Prison Education Program Receives $150K Grant to Build Statewide Higher Ed Prison Coalition

May 12, 2025

With support from the ECMC Foundation, CU Denver’s Prison Education Program is spearheading the formation of a new Colorado-wide coalition to expand and enhance college access for incarcerated learners.

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Professors Mohrman and Fischer publish article on the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City in American Quarterly

April 8, 2025

Dr. K. Mohrman (Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies) and Mia Fischer (Associate Professor, Department of Communication) publish “‘As-Salaam-Alaikum, Bitches!’: The Biopolitics of Secularism, Neoliberal Multiculturalism, and The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City ” in American Quarterly (Volume 77, Number 1: 105-131), the journal of record for American...

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