Innovation

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.

CU Denver Chemistry Chair Hai Lin is pushing the frontiers of computational chemistry with pioneering methods that reveal how molecules react-atom by atom. Discover how his research is reshaping drug design, enzyme modeling, and the future of science.

At CU Denver, students don’t have to wait until grad school to get involved with research. Our Office of Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities  offers many opportunities for students to engage in—and get paid for—research on topics that suit their academic and career goals. Each year, many of these students get...

Ireland’s largest castle boasts 20 sides, three-meter-thick walls, and the remains of what was once a moat. The Trim Castle, which dates to 1172 and took 30 years to build, is often referred to as one of the country’s most impressive medieval structures (you may even recognize it from some...

CU Denver Lynx celebrated World Quantum Day on April 14 with activities in the North Classroom Atrium. Students had the opportunity to ask experts questions about quantum computing and watch quantum experiments in action. The event was hosted by CU Denver’s Quantum Information Technology Certificate Program , which is a...

Chris Beekman of the Department of Anthropology worked with colleagues from the Museum of Northern Arizona and El Colegio de Michoacan to reconstruct changing lake levels and their relationship to patterns in archaeological settlement in the Magdalena Lake Basin, Jalisco, Mexico. Magdalena Lake was drained in the 20th century, and...

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...

The Alzheimer’s Association has awarded a prestigious three-year, $200,000 research grant to Dr. Ronica Rooks, professor in the Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences at CU Denver. Using national, secondary data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the Census-enacted HRS (linking the HRS to United States' business information),...

Published recently in American Anthropologist , Emma Bunkley examines how weight loss caused by Type II diabetes can trigger harmful rumors and social isolation for women in Senegal. Her article, “The Weight of Rumor,” reveals how stigma surrounding weight loss not only delays diagnosis but also deepens the emotional and...

Christopher Beekman has published a long chapter with his colleagues on "Structure and History in the Americas: Closed and Interconnected?" in Harvard's History of the World series. The chapter occurs in the sixth and final volume of the series to be published, Entangled Worlds: 600–1350 , edited by Daniel G...