Nearly 200 young writers spent a week of their summer on the Auraria campus at the Young Writer's Camp , hosted by the University of Colorado Denver Writing Project (DWP). These 4th-12th grade writers worked on their own fiction and non-fiction pieces, and shared them with family and friends at...

Don Quixote will ride again in 2015! This time, he will not start his route in Spanish lands but will be shifted to the Western United States. From April 23-26th, The University of Colorado Denver and The University of Wyoming Laramie will host the celebration of the 400th anniversary of...

On September 12th, 9 CLAS students arrived in Berlin to participate in the inaugural semester of the Sustainability in Berlin Program led by Christoph Stefes, Associate Professor for Political Science. Spending 3 months in Germany’s capital, the 3 graduate and 6 undergraduate students will intern with organizations and think tanks...

Keynote speaker Billy Mills (Makata Taka Hela) addresses a crowd in the King Center. Co-sponsored by the CLAS Continuing and Professional Education Office , the American Indians Pathways Taskforce hosted a training and education conference to promote the civil rights of American Indians on the Auraria Campus July 14-15. Workshops...

Destination Imagination contests happen in the spring all around Colorado and the Nation–with students in grades K-12 competing in categories as diverse as improvisation, technology, fine arts and service learning. These contests culminate in a fun and educational Colorado State Contest, this year on April 12, where over 5,000 people...

This semester, University Honors and Leadership (UHL) students Pratibha Anand, Anna Astashchanka, Adam Blair, Mirissa Price and Miriam Sarwana established a partnership Denver Public Schools to establish a new initiative: Crafting Yourself . The program engages middle school students in an after-school creative environment that demonstrates and cultivates the importance...

In honor of Chinese New Year, on February 18 th the CU Denver Intercultural Club Beijing (ICB Club) hosted an impressive banquet for Chinese students who are away from home, and for friends and faculty members who enjoy learning about traditional Chinese culture. The celebration coincided with the annual Lantern...

Last spring the inaugural CU Denver chapter of Pi Delta Phi, the National French Honorary Society, was launched and the national Pi Delta Phi organization has chosen to feature CLAS's chapter on their web site this month. The chapter's official sanctioning ceremony (pictured here) was attended by Dr. John Janc,...