Fear in the wake of violent conflicts causes people to take fewer risks, which may come at the expense of bettering their lives and the economy. New research found a causal link between the fear of violence and its impact on the risk-taking attitudes of individuals living in affected communities.

A Houston mobile home park in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. A team of faculty from the University of Colorado Denver, along with partners at Texas A&M University, has received a $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the recovery of mobile home parks in the Houston metropolitan...

Integrative Biology Assistant Professor Brian Buma's research explorations take him to the ends of the earth - literally. In January, Buma will be leading a new National Geographic sponsored expedition to Cape Horn, Chile, to find the world's southernmost forests and trees in an effort to understand how those forests...

The University of Colorado Denver and assistant psychology professor Dr. Amy Wachholtz, PhD, MDiv, MS, were awarded more than $700,000 in funding by the National Institute of Health (NIH) to study treatments for chronic pain sufferers who become addicted to opioids. Recruitment is underway to enroll study patients for this...

Annika Mosier, PhD, grew up in a part of Oregon where there are more farmers and loggers than scientists – but that didn’t stop her from becoming assistant professor of integrative biology at CU Denver, with her own lab and nearly two dozen publications to her name.

"Right now, there is no state in the nation where a person working full time for minimum wage can afford rent for a fair-market, one-bedroom home. In fact, affordable housing is so hard to find, you'll actually spend less of your income if you can afford to buy a house...

Over a decade of work, anthropologist gains knowledge into dimensions of human experience While many faculty members spend their summers researching, not many willingly choose to spend them in the harsh conditions that California's migrant farmworkers experience. Sarah Horton, Associate Professor of Anthropology, has been studying and publishing research on...

Phiel connects undergrads with the very latest technology In the Molecular Biology lab class of Christopher Phiel, PhD Even if you aren't a biomedical researcher, you may already have a passing familiarity with the easy-to-remember acronym CRISPR from recent news reports: "CRISPR'S unprecedented ability to edit genetic code will make...

New Winterim program seeks climate secrets on the Northern Patagonian Ice Field Colonia glacier terminus and lake. This year, CU Denver students spent a purposeful and picturesque New Year's eve viewing glittering constellations in the southern sky around the campfire at Palomar Ranch (or Camp 2) on the very remote...

Mansour and other CU Economists Use Large Datasets to Isolate an Important Variable in Infant Health Outcomes Hani Mansour, Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, understands why his research topics surprise people. He says, "It always surprises non-economists that economists are interested in topics like infant health and stress...