CU Denver student Sabitra Niroula She was born in a refugee camp in Nepal where she lived for the first 12 years of her life. She didn't start her education in the United States until middle school. Her family is, in her own words, "economically unstable." Despite that, Sabitra Niroula...

If you have a passion for big data, and want to use it as a place to launch inquiry, you might just be a demographer. "I think about when I started graduate school, and I didn't know what I wanted to study," says Patrick Krueger, Assistant Professor of Health and...

This August, the world commemorated the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by American aircraft in 1945. Though the bombings arguably ended WWII, the attacks were responsible for the tragic deaths of more than 300,000 people, and remain among the most...

"There is something about letting go of something you've been working on for so long and putting it out into the world," says Faye Caronan, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies specializing in Asian American Studies, about publishing her first book. Acknowledging the well-known metaphor of a first book being like...

Chair of the Physics Department Clyde Zaidins with a student mentee When Clyde Zaidins retired from CU Denver in 2004 he moved to a quiet peninsula off the coast of Washington state and left the high-stress world of academia far behind...or so he thought. With research interests in astrophysics and...

Assistant Professor of Physics Doug Shepherd with students in his lab. Akbar Esfahani transferred into the Master of Integrated Sciences (MIS) program from the Mathematics and Statistical Sciences department after he learned that he could design a degree that would make him uniquely qualified across a broad range of topics...

Left to right: Sydney Lungu (Data Manager), Sara Yeatman, Jenny Trinitapoli (Penn State), and Abdallah Chilungo (Project Manager) Although the world has been distracted lately by the recent deadly Ebola outbreaks, HIV is still the leading infectious killer and one of the most serious health problems facing the planet's population...

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Zaneta Thayer In the first ever study to look at intergenerational effects of discrimination on stress hormones, Zaneta Thayer, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, shows that women who experience racial discrimination while pregnant suffer significant health impacts that are passed on to their infants. "Many people think...

Few healthcare topics are currently as hotly debated as vaccination choice. Fear and anger on both sides of the argument have fueled highly emotional public discourse and questions about changes in policy and regulation. Lately, the news is full of stories about outbreaks of vaccine-controlled infectious diseases like measles and...

Smartphones are now ubiquitous among teens, and everyone has heard stories of the crises that ensue when private images go viral—disrupting and damaging young lives. Sexual shaming used to take place in hallways, locker rooms, and on bathroom walls, but now technology has raised the stakes, sending lawmakers, school administrators,...