Nearly a third of Colorado’s 11th and 12th graders took "dual enrollment" classes last year, with the University of Colorado Denver serving the most at four-year institutions with 4,878 students. More Colorado high school students are taking college courses Denver Post, May 6

Geography and Environmental Science Senior Instructor Amanda Weaver, Assistant Professor Kristy Briles, and Assistant Professor Anika Mosier are all doctors turned beekeepers: "Each has a different area of focus. Weaver is the experienced beekeeper and agricultural geographer." "Briles is a palynologist -- a scientist who studies pollen. Mosier is a...

Created by an interdisciplinary team based in CLAS, North/East Denver Change , a website dedicated to nonpartisan information about developments and the neighborhoods being affected, got some international attention recently. Humanities and Social Sciences Instructor Jordan Hill says, "After our front page story in The Westword in May, it is...

Colorado overall is still waiting to see a significant uptick in wage growth, and the link between wage growth and a tight labor market may not be as strong at is has been in the past, according to Associate Dean and Economics Professor Laura Argys. It's "an employee's job market"...

Amy Adele Hasinoff, Assistant Professor of Communication, continues to discuss how teen sexting should be addressed by the legal system, schools and parents after her recent book Sexting Panic , won the National Communication Association's 2016 Diamond Anniversary Book Award . So your kid’s been caught sexting. Now what? Colorado...

When the city was first founded, there was little hope that it would last. Thomas J. Noel or "Dr. Colorado," a Professor of History and Director of Public History, Preservation & Colorado Studies explained recently, "The difference was the people involved – the human beings who worked to keep the...

Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccine , by Jennifer A. Reich, Associate Professor of Sociology, was released last month by NYU Press. For or over a decade, Reich has been studying the phenomenon of vaccine refusal from the perspectives of parents who distrust vaccines and the corporations that make...

"I chose to write my book because my father died of a heart attack as the result of smoking" says Associate Philosophy Professor Candice Shelby. "My mother died on a ventilator after suffering from an addiction to prescription pills; and my sister died at 42 from street drugs." Behind Addiction:...

"The one thing we think we know for sure is that people aren't very good at predicting what will make them happy," says Kevin S. Masters, Professor and Program Director of Clinical Health Psychology. Along with Dana Steidtmann (clinical psychologist with the University of Colorado Denver Medical School) Masters sites...

Speaking on the anniversary of Hall of Fame pitcher Randy Johnson hitting a bird with a pitch back in 2001, Michael Wunder, Associate Professor of Integrative Biology, did the math: "There are 30 teams, so about 700,000 pitches per year, just for the majors. If we consider the minors, then...