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Prof. Chloe East on Next with Kyle Clark

March 3, 2025

CU Denver Economics Professor Chloe East spoke with Angeline McCall on Next with Kyle Clark about the “Day Without Immigrants” protests and the impact migrants and deportations have on the economy.

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Jennifer Reich Weighs in on RFK Jr as the new head of the Department of Health and Human Services in The Atlantic

Feb. 28, 2025

Jennifer Reich, a professor at the University of Colorado Denver , says his vaccine skepticism, tied to autism, is part of a broader set of concerns among parents. For him to shift in these views, it would mean abandoning his general distrust of science. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the new...

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The Oregonian Quotes Mia Fischer in "How Riley Gaines became the right’s darling on anti-trans issues in sports: Analysis"

Feb. 25, 2025

“There’s clearly a lot of media training that these people have received,” says Fischer, noting that the right-wing’s selection of white, traditionally feminine girls and young women is likely intentional. “If we think about traditional gender norms, they fulfill all these signifiers that we traditionally associate with feminine white athletes...

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CU Denver CLAS Grad and CU Regent, Nolbert Chavez, Gives Input on Auraria's 9th Street Houses

Feb. 25, 2025

University of Colorado Regent and CLAS alum, Nolbert Chavez, was recently interviewed by Denver's 9News on the history of Auraria's 9th Street houses—including his own perspective.

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The Forward Features Article by Dr. Philip Joseph

Feb. 24, 2025

In the story of my Jewish family’s migration from Europe to America in the 1930s, my grandmother has always been portrayed as the supreme realist. Eyes wide open to the growing danger, with two young children in tow, she uprooted herself from Luxembourg after Hitler’s invasion of Austria in 1938...

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Rich Allen Featured in "The Hidden Utility of the Liberal Arts"

Feb. 3, 2025

What do you do with a major in French? Or philosophy, history, or English? This is the question at the heart of all the challenges that now bedevil liberal-arts departments on campuses across the country, a problem once dubbed the “translation chasm.”

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The Denver Post Features Insights from Dr. James Walsh on Colorado's Labor Peace Act

Jan. 31, 2025

Indeed, the passage of the Labor Peace Act more than 81 years ago was not the result of a grand bargain between unions and businesses, said James Walsh, a University of Colorado Denver political science professor who specializes in labor history. “If you look at the notes from the Colorado...

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NPR's Planet Money Interviews Dr. Chloe East on the "Chilling Effect" of Deportations

Jan. 31, 2025

"Chloe East is an associate professor of economics at University of Colorado Denver, and she has spent many years studying deportations. And she says it's worth noting that so much of the attention this week has been around these raids, and raids are just one strategy that the government uses...

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"CU Denver Professor Andy Scahill's Rainbow Cult Is Off to See the Wizard" Writes Westword

Jan. 31, 2025

University of Colorado Denver film professor Andy Scahill has a lot to say about the 1939 movie classic The Wizard of Oz. "I teach a whole class on it," says Scahill. "Italy's University of Turin did a study about what the most-often-quoted film in history is, and it turns out...

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Scientific American Cites CU Denver Biologist in Recent Article, "Migrating Birds Sing to Team Up with Other Species"

Jan. 31, 2025

Flying in the dark presents challenges to airborne cooperation, notes biologist Allison Pierce, who studies plover migration at University of Colorado Denver and was not involved in the new paper. For example, visual cues such as another bird’s flight path are absent. “If we could take it from this big...

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