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Does video streaming warrant cutting the cable cord?

September 25, 2019

“Streaming services have disrupted the TV industry as we know it,” said Matthew Kaskavitch, a lecturer at the University of Colorado Denver.
Netflix was at the forefront of the streaming evolution and has now become the No. 1 player in terms of subscribers. For years, the media industry as a whole didn’t think streaming was going to be a long-term trend and considered it to be more of a fad.
“But now everybody across the media industry is recognizing that video streaming is here to stay,” Kaskavitch said. “Everybody is making that massive landgrab to try to position themselves for the future of what TV is going to be like.”

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9News

Preservation story of Eugene Field House in Denver’s Washington Park

September 26, 2019

CU Denver History Professor Tom Noel, PhD, share the history of the Eugene Field House in Denver's Washington Park. It was damaged by the Bomb Cyclone in March. The structure originally stood in Civic Center Park. Molly Brown had it relocated to preserve the home of the famous poet.

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9News

Local colleges address food insecurity

September 26, 2019

The HOPE Center surveyed college students across the country and found 40% experienced food insecurity within the last 30 days, meaning they could not afford a balanced meal or limited what they do because they do not have enough money.
CU Denver opened a food pantry a year ago. About 900 students have used the food pantry for about a total of 1500 times. Students are already balancing class, work or whatever else. They want to make sure food is one less thing to stress about. It is meeting your basic needs to be a successful student.

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Streetsblog USA

The small-city Vision Zero challenge

September 23, 2019

Wes Marshall, a transportation engineer and researcher at the University of Colorado Denver, conducts research studies on street design and land-use-development patterns pertaining to traffic safety. His advice for smaller cities is to focus on fundamentals, such as slowing motor-vehicle speeds.
“Instead of focusing on an intersection or corridor, smaller cities need to look at Vision Zero through a specific lens,” Marshall says. “Can children get to the school or park safely by walking or bicycling, and what is the network they need to do so?”

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Colorado Public Radio News

Colorado unemployment flirts with an all-time low, again

September 20, 2019

The state is basically at total employment, which is generally good. However, “unemployment is low enough that economists are going to keep a very close eye on inflation numbers,” said Andrew Friedson, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Colorado Denver.

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Westword

Oliver Herring makes something from nothing … and a lot of faith

September 18, 2019

Oliver Herring didn’t have a clue what he’d create, or with whom, when the Brooklyn-based artist arrived at the University of Colorado Denver’s Emmanuel Gallery a month ago to build a site-specific installation with complete strangers. But then, the rail-thin, articulate and intensely focused German-born Herring rarely does when he takes on a community-based art project, and he takes on a lot of them: “I have even been called a post-studio artist, but that’s just circumstantial,” he says, pointing to his exhaustive years on the road facilitating gallery collaborations internationally.

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SHRM

Many U.S. workers worry they’ll be fired

September 18, 2019

Even though the U.S. unemployment rate is at a record low, nearly half the country's workers are worried they'll lose their jobs, according to a new poll.
"Many young people have witnessed firsthand the financial and psychological effects of layoffs on their parents, their relatives or their friends," said Wayne Cascio, global leadership professor at the University of Colorado Denver, who has studied the impact of layoffs for decades.

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Associated Press

Mobile homesick: Aurora struggles trying to help renters

September 15, 2019

When Aurora City Council members approved a 10-month moratorium on redeveloping mobile home parks in the city along with a task force to study the housing stock, the effort was lauded as a forward-thinking. Leaders, academics and residents were hopeful that it would prevent the depletion of the region’s most affordable, non-subsidized housing option.
“This move on Aurora’s part is incredible. I haven’t seen this happen anywhere. So this is a huge move,” Esther Sullivan, an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Denver who studies the role of mobile home parks, told the Sentinel after the passage.

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The Washington Post

Some people would pay to avoid ‘thoughts and prayers’ after a disaster, study finds

September 16, 2019

Few gestures are given as freely as thoughts and prayers after a national tragedy. A first-of-a-kind study published Monday tries to establish whether Americans appreciate the offer.
“This article raises an interesting point — some people, maybe, just don’t want your thoughts or prayers,” said University of Colorado Denver psychologist Kevin Masters, who was not a member of the research team. In 2006, Masters and his colleagues analyzed the body of research on the effects of prayer on someone’s behalf. No study was able to show that prayer has discernible health benefits on a distant recipient.

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CGTN America

New Amazon fulfillment center uses tech, incentives to move goods rapidly

September 16, 2019

At Amazon, the focus is on getting exactly the right goods to people’s doorsteps at lightning speed.
Some employees complain they’re underpaid and that in the march to automation their jobs have become tedious and almost robotic.
“Yes, there’s going to be monotonous and difficult jobs that are going to be hard for people and they’re going to be dissatisfied,” said Cliff Young, a marketing expert at the University of Colorado Denver. “It is a company that demands high performance… That’s the nature of a distribution business. That’s what Amazon is in.”

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The Colorado Sun

Oliver Herring: From MOMA, the Guggenheim and the Hirshhorn to … Auraria?

September 16, 2019

The world renowned collaborative artist is bringing a 31-day experiment to a tiny gallery at the University of Colorado Denver because he says “art should be accessible."
A renowned artist who has exhibited at great art institutions around the world has set up shop at the tiny Emmanuel Gallery on the University of Colorado’s Auraria campus in downtown Denver. He has spent the last month in CU Denver's Emmanuel Gallery because, really, he’s all about people.
“People are his paintbrush,” Emmanuel Gallery director and curator Jeff Lambson said.

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Colorado Politics

Candidate who initially sought Aurora state Senate seat switches to House race

September 10, 2019

Ronquillo, a professor at the University of Colorado Denver School of Public Affairs, said in a statement: “I am happy to give my full support and endorsement to Janet Buckner in the Senate District 28 race, and I will instead seek to succeed her in the House. I am excited to work with her on behalf of our neighbors in Aurora and on behalf of all Coloradans.”
Ronquillo joins fellow Democrat Naquetta Ricks of Aurora in running for the House District 40 race in 2020.

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