Our People

The awards for outstanding College of Liberal Arts and Sciences students, faculty, and staff honor their dedication, resilience, and hard work. We celebrate not only their accomplishments but also the values they carry forward as they step into new roles as thinkers, creators, and leaders.

Chandler Stark, who graduated in 2022 with an MA from the History Department, has been appointed the Gary Sinise Foundation Oral Historian at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. As an MA student at CU Denver, Chandler focused on the histories of US Foreign Policy and the...

Assistant Professor Gabriela DeRobles teaches several courses in the Modern Languages Department at CU Denver, but if you ask her students, her classes are about much more than language. “I don’t think I would have gone after my master’s degree, and I know I wouldn’t have even made it through...

During this Fall 2024 Semester, English Instructor Matthew Jellick, working with the International College of Beijing (ICB) program in Beijing, China, started a Book Club for students. The group read Gabrielle Zevin’s novel Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Meeting bi-weekly at a local coffeehouse in Beijing, students and faculty discussions...

Jennifer Hathaway won the student poster contest at GIS in the Rockies ( http://gisintherockies.org/ ), a local conference for GIS professionals. The poster is part of her thesis work examining queer women spaces in the 1970s and today. For the map of 1970s, Hathaway used a 1956 zoning map, digitized...

The field of communication is celebrating the profound contributions of Dr. Sonja K. Foss, Professor Emeritus of Communication at the University of Colorado Denver. Dr. Foss was the founding chair of the Department of Communication at the International College Beijing in 1999. Since joining the National Communication Association (NCA) in...

William Navarrete Moreno can’t forget a call that would change his life. He was a fifth grader when he got a call from his mother, an immigrant from Mexico, who was at the emergency room. Her thyroid cancer had progressed to the point where she was having trouble breathing, and...