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Leadville Herald Democrat

Leadville honors unmarked Irish graves

September 29, 2021

University of Colorado Denver professor Jim Walsh, who has studied the Irish diaspora to Leadville for two decades, opened up the ceremony with a poem he wrote: “There comes a time after steel and iron and locomotives; after famine and dispersion and separation, when we must collect our dead.” Walsh later told the Herald that his poem was meant as a call to 21st century Irish communities. “It’s time to reclaim our past,” said the historian.

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9News

Study shows drivers and cyclists break the law at about the same rate

September 28, 2021

Every time we do a story about cycling infrastructure, we expect the same response: a flurry of e-mails and social media comments suggesting bicyclists don’t follow the rules of the road, many suggesting that cyclists break the law more than drivers. A University of Colorado Denver civil engineering professor did a survey published in 2017 to try to determine why cyclists break the law and why drivers do, as well. What Wes Marshall found is that while drivers and cyclists both generally feel their decisions to break the law are reasonable, they do it for different reasons.

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The Hill

Ivermectin disinformation leads to new kinds of chaos

September 29, 2021

An avalanche of misinformation about the antiparasitic drug ivermectin’s ability to treat COVID-19 has caused a series of national problems, from increased calls to poisoning centers to a shortage of the medicine itself. “The promise that there are miracle solutions to an illness is really persuasive,” Jennifer Reich, a professor of sociology at the University of Colorado Denver. “And the idea that individuals can manage their own health, if they read a lot, gather information and make their own decisions is really powerful.”

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Ponoma College Magazine

Westward PO

September 30, 2021

The windowless Ahmanson Reading Room of the Munger Research Center at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, is a carpeted kingdom of quiet. Cameron Blevins, now a professor of U.S. history and digital humanities at the University of Colorado Denver, handed an archivist a little slip of paper containing his request for documents. He was deep into research for what would become Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West, exploring how the postal service, working with private entrepreneurs, played a central role in extending the federal government’s reach to the Pacific.

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The Denverite

Why is Morrison Road diagonal?

September 28, 2021

A number of different factors have created Denver’s diagonal streets. The orientation of natural features like the Platte River and Cherry Creek, for example, gave downtown Denver and Auraria their 45-degree angles. The influence of the City Beautiful movement, which focused on grand civic centers and parks, prompted the creation of streets like Park Avenue to connect downtown to different open spaces. Tom Noel, a Colorado historian and professor at CU Denver, said the idea of those diagonal roadways is borrowed from Paris

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American Society of Landscape Architects

Decolonizing Landscape Architecture Education

September 28, 2021

The following two-part series is a summary of a recent panel on decolonizing design education that took place at the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA)‘s 2021 conference. In order to address systemic racism and biases within institutions that teach landscape architecture, we must confront the way our profession approaches the teaching and production of knowledge within landscape architecture that replicates racist and oppressive processes, policies, and outcomes in communities of color. The first panel featured Joern Langhorst, Landscape Architecture Department (University of Colorado, Denver).

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Albuquerque Journal

Climate change affecting Colorado tarantula population

September 27, 2021

About this time every year, southeastern Colorado towns like La Junta see more visitors looking to glimpse saucer-sized Texas brown tarantulas as they scurry out of their burrows and across fields and roads in search of a mate. “If you compare pictures, you can tell that there are just fewer males out looking for love.” Scientists don’t have precise population data because there isn’t a dedicated group focused on the tarantulas in the region, but Jones, who is working on his PhD in program integrative and systems biology at the University of Colorado Denver, said people who live in that part of the state call and email the museum every year — people who used to have a hard time driving around without squishing tarantulas on the road.

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Denver Voice

Annual march for immigrant rights demands change this year

September 27, 2021

After speaking at the Ya Es Hora: March for Citizenship on Saturday, September 25, Rey Salvidrez Rodriguez said he is beginning to feel hope again. More than 100 immigration rights advocates participating in the annual event marched along Speer Blvd from Viking Park in North Denver to Auraria Campus. Many of those who attended the march have had their lives profoundly impacted by the current U.S. immigration law. Rodriguez is working on his master’s degree in higher education at CU Denver.

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Bank Street College of Education

Prepared To Teach and New America Explore Transforming Teacher Preparation

September 27, 2021

Next, several practitioners from across the country began a panel discussion on “Insights from Innovative, Impactful Teacher Preparation Programs.” The panel included Tania Hogan, Director of Undergraduate Student Success, School of Education and Human Development, University of Colorado Denver. “We’ve partnered with our districts to have a paid para internship.…so they are getting paid to work out at the schools Monday through Friday, 8 to 12 in the morning, and then they come and take courses in the afternoon,” said Hogan about the design of CU Denver’s undergraduate teacher residency and Grow Your Own program NxtGEN.

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Inside Higher Ed

Biden’s Promise to HBCUs Unfulfilled by Congress

September 22, 2021

President Biden’s ambitious higher education agenda has had its disappointments as Congress turns it into legislation, with a strict budget forcing lower-than-anticipated funding levels for some of its provisions. While the bill includes funding for historically Black colleges and universities, advocates say it is well below what’s needed. In the current version of the budget reconciliation bill serving as the vehicle for Biden’s Build Back Better Act, HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions are slated to receive $27 billion in tuition subsidies, $1.45 billion for institutional aid and $2 billion to improve research and development infrastructure. Meanwhile, Biden proposed a total of $55 billion for HBCUs and other MSIs to upgrade research infrastructure and create research incubators for improving STEM education.

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Diverse Issues in Higher Education

James Kvaal as Under Secretary: What to Expect

September 22, 2021

The Biden administration’s higher education agenda, Hartle added, is fairly comprehensive, including addressing student loan repayment, making community colleges free, expanding the Pell Grant among low-income students, and giving more money to historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and other minority-serving institutions.

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Craig Daily Press

Mount Harris townsite preserved in conservation easement

September 22, 2021

Emily Katzman, executive director of Historic Routt County, said the relocation sites of about half of the 63 Mount Harris buildings have been identified through a group research project among Historic Routt County, Hayden Heritage Center and graduate students in architecture and historic preservation from the University of Colorado Denver. The original records from the auction sales were lost in a fire. Individuals are asked to submit information about relocated Mount Harris buildings at HistoricRouttCounty.org.

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