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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

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...

Associate Professor of History Rachel Gross's book, Shopping All the Way to the Woods: How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America (Yale University Press, 2024), was awarded the Colorado Book Award in History. The Colorado Book Awards, a program of Colorado Humanities and the Colorado Center for the Book,...

Professor Emeritus Jan Mandel has been awarded the prestigious Olof B. Widlund Prize at the 29th International Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods (DD29)

Assistant Professor Carlos Martínez Mori attended the 26th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC’25) at Stanford University, where he presented his co-authored paper, “Cooperation and the Design of Public Goods,” written with Alejandro Toriello.

Assistant Professor Carlos Martínez Mori attended the 26th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC’25) at Stanford University, where he presented his co-authored paper, “Cooperation and the Design of Public Goods,” written with Alejandro Toriello.

In March, English and Creative Writing Professor Wayne Miller published his sixth full-length poetry collection, titled The End of Childhood, with US independent literary press Milkweed Editions.