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Denver Business Journal

Denver panhandlers make about $10 per hour, CU Denver study finds

December 12, 2019

Denver panhandlers make about $10 per hour, according to a recent study by University of Colorado Denver marketing instructor and researcher Francisco Conejo.
“It’s especially true along the 16th Street Mall, because that's our presentation card,” Conejo said. “Every year, we have thousands of convention visitors coming in and ... they are kind of shocked by what goes on at the16th Street Mall, so the city needs to address this.”

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Streetsblog USA

Hidden safety problems keep Denver kids from walking and biking

November 26, 2019

In this guest post, Wes Marshall, a professor of civil engineering at the University of Colorado Denver, reveals Denver-based research showing that crash data hides places where kids want to walk and bike. Related papers show how to identify places where kids already are, and how to create safer streets where they want to go — instead of waiting for them to get run over by cars before intervening. The data used to identify dangerous trends or where the hot spots are around the city. does not tell the whole story for pedestrian and bicyclist safety.

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Scripps

South Dakota’s meth campaign went viral. But it’s a serious problem — and the slogan could help

November 26, 2019

Vicki Lane, a professor of marketing at the University of Colorado Denver, spoke with us regarding South Dakota's latest anti-meth campaign.
“It’s free, it’s free when people are talking about you on social media and advertising cost a lot of money,” Lane said.
She says the state is using a controversial slogan to get people talking about the problem.
“Controversy in particular has a risk that it will backfire. Because it is controversial that people will have a negative perception or negative reaction or negative attitude and maybe even a negative emotion,” Lane said.

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Westword

Want to study EDM production? CU Denver has you covered

December 3, 2019

The University of Colorado Denver is offering students a focus in what academics have dubbed the Electronic Digital Instrument — an ever-evolving combination of computers, MIDI controllers, software, keyboards and beyond — as a focus available to students within the College of Arts and Media.
“If a student is really interested in EDM and getting a music degree, what we now offer is for that student to do rigorous training on electronic digital instrument and use that instrument which is as valid as the piano or guitar or what have you,” Richard Strasser, chair of the Music and Entertainment Industry Department at CU Denver, says. “This is a seismic shift we are making.”

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Daily Camera

Boulder Valley Schools hiring teachers of color from CU Denver Pathways2Teaching

December 1, 2019

Boulder Valley School District is ramping up its effort to hire more teachers of color to better reflect its student population. Despite several initiatives, Human Resources Assistant Superintendent Mike Gradoz said the percent of teachers of color has only improved by about 1% a year since 2016. About 13% of the district’s teachers are people of color, compared to about 30% of students. “It’s not enough,” he said.
The district wants to enhance its current grow-your-own teacher programs for high school students. In Boulder Valley, the concurrent enrollment Pathways2Teaching program is offered in partnership with the University of Colorado Denver at Boulder and Centaurus high schools. Those who successfully complete the program are admitted to CU Denver.

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The Denverite

Gaze into future Denver through a couple dozen development renderings

December 2, 2019

Look forward into time at what developments and parks planned in Denver will look like, at least according to these dramatic, best-case-scenario renderings. See images of the new engineering building planned for the CU Denver College of Engineering, Design and Computing.

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FOX 31 Denver

New body-camera footage brings more questions about Aurora PD’s use of force

November 26, 2019

A force review board will evaluate whether the Aurora police officers violated department policy when they applied a carotid hold on a man who later died. Mary Dodge, a professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Colorado Denver, questions the officers use of the carotid hold.
“(The carotid hold) should be against all police policies,” said Dodge, who has extensively studied cases of police use of force.

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Colorado Public Radio News

Racist incidents on college campuses aren’t just annual events. Students of color say solutions shouldn’t be, either.

November 25, 2019

At the University of Colorado Denver, though, nearly half the student body is made up of students of color, according to the 2018-2019 Diversity Report.
Sophomore Daniel Casillas is studying biology there and is part of the student government. He said being at the school has been eye-opening because he’s meeting people from a wide range of backgrounds and with different perspectives, which has encouraged him to get involved.
“I think on paper, CU Denver is diverse and in person, CU Denver is diverse,” he said. “Looking at the collective group, there's not only one specific race or one specific gender or one specific sexuality, it's a collective mix of people.”

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The Denver Post

New apartment tower is final big piece of Denver’s Central Platte Valley, a neighborhood that barely existed 30 years ago

November 19, 2019

In just the Union Station area bordered by the central rail line, Speer Boulevard, Wynkoop and 20th streets, the number of housing units has climbed over 2,700 this year up from just 19 in 2000, according to the Downtown Denver Partnership.
The boom in the area represents the power of planning, said Ken Schroeppel, a professor in the University of Colorado Denver’s master of urban and regional planning program.
“That sounds like a long time, but from a city-building perspective that’s really a pretty remarkably short amount of time for such as transformation,” he said.

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Forbes

How immersive technology can bring new audiences into opera

November 14, 2019

Back in 2017, with an aim to bring a new dimension of openness and excitement to the opera, professors at the University of Colorado Denver teamed up with Colorado Opera to create Experience La Bohème. The experience comprises a suite of virtual and augmented reality displays which offer viewers a behind-the-scenes glimpse at Opera Colorado’s process of mounting Puccini’s La Bohème.

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The Denver Post

Rockies co-owner Monfort’s McGregor Square is on trend — and at the center of a trend — in LoDo

November 17, 2019

Surface parking lots around Denver are dwindling as property owners eye more profitable and taller uses. That’s a good thing argues Ken Schroeppel, a University of Colorado Denver urban and regional planning professor and a close observer of Denver development trends through the blog, Denverinfill.com. On the Denver Infill site, parking lots are known as “soul-sucking black holes in the urban fabric.”
“Land in downtown is really expensive and storing cars horizontally on one level on the ground is not even close to being the highest and best use of expensive land,” Schroeppel argues.

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The Denverite

Three years in, a Denver venture to invest in people experiencing homelessness shows promise

November 14, 2019

Of the 383 people who have been housed with social impact bond funding over three years, 85 percent remained housed after one year and 79 percent remained housed at two years, according to the Urban Institute which had support from the University of Colorado Denver.
“These are promising housing stability results,” the researchers concluded.

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