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CU Denver Students Use Pandemic To Better Their Architecture Class Project

May 17, 2020

KOA

Mandy’s Mon Blog: It’s All About Risk Management Now

May 18, 2020

Now that we're looking forward to the next steps in the fight against the novel coronavirus, KOA asks, how are you managing the stress? A 2005 study in the Journal of Behavioral Medicine comparing secular and spiritual forms of meditation found spiritual meditation to be more calming. Amy Wachholtz, associate professor and clinical health psychology director at the University of Colorado Denver, and lead researcher on the meditation study says even prayer can be good for the mind. “It lets you put down your burden mentally for a bit and rest.”

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Cellphone tracking shows Colorado residents mostly stayed home during health order

May 14, 2020

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Fake cops doing traffic stops in southwestern Ontario, police warn

May 13, 2020

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Seattle TImes

Who is Judy Mikovits in ‘Plandemic,’ the coronavirus conspiracy video just banned from social media?

May 12, 2020

In 2009, Judy Mikovits, a former researcher, co-wrote a paper on chronic fatigue syndrome, stating the illnesses origins might be linked to a virus. Two years later, the paper was retracted by the scientific community for its inaccuracies and failed follow-up studies. Nearly ten years later, in a film called “Plandemic,” she claims that the doctors and experts shaping public policy in response to the coronavirus pandemic have silenced dissenting voices and misled the public.

University of Colorado at Denver professor Jennifer Reich, who studies the anti-vaccine movement, explained why so many people are willing to believe the unsupported claims Mikovits has made about the coronavirus pandemic. “The claims Mikovits makes highlight uncertainties people feel right now,” Reich says. With limited "first-hand knowledge" on the pandemic, people question the statics being given to the public, which is why so many people may believe Mikovits false claims.

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Denver7

As more people turn to telehealth, how are companies keeping your data safe from hackers?

May 11, 2020

As the number in virtual doctor's appointments rises, so does the opportunity for personal health data to be stolen. Jiban Khuntia, an information systems professor at CU Denver, says the responsibility of security of your personal data lies mostly with your healthcare provider. He goes on to state that healthcare providers are not as prepared as they need to be during these uncertain times. Khunita suggests providers have a team either in-house or outsourced that is dedicated to maintaining security of their systems.

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Westword

From Denver to Norway: Cate Downey Has a Song in Her Heart

May 13, 2020

Colorado native Cate Downey is currently spending her quarantine in Norway, where she attends Lillhammer Institute of Music Productions and Industries. Cate is one of only sixteen students in the songwriting program, where she is tasked to write one song per week. You can currently hear her one of her songs, "Picture on the Wall," throughout May on Denver's own Indie 102.3.

She credits the University of Colorado Denver’s LYNX National Arts & Media Camp as a great opportunity to help her develop her songwriting at a young age.

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HealthLeaders

Hazard pay for healthcare: Q&A with Rulon Stacey

May 5, 2020

Former ACHE Chair and Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award-winning CEO says it's time to pay healthcare workers for being the warriors they are in the COVID-19 pandemic.
HealthLeaders: What was the genesis behind pushing the idea of hazard pay for frontline healthcare workers?

Rulon Stacey: Two of my University of Colorado Denver colleagues and I started to talk about this. One has a psychology background and one has an HR background. We started to realize what we, as a society, had asked healthcare workers to do here. We needed them to step up and do what they did. They risked everything to get the country through a once-in-a-century situation, and now we watch as many of them may get furloughed. We worry about their risk of being disregarded. We think that they should be compensated for what they did. They stepped up and came through for society. And we think that society should not forget what happened.

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Capital & Main

Economic Policy Institute: Nearly 28 million workers have applied for unemployment compensation.

May 5, 2020

California’s aggressive stay-at-home restrictions in the wake of COVID-19’s first wave likely averted nearly 90,000 additional cases of the disease and 1,500 deaths, according to a new report by independent researchers.

The project focused on California because it was first to go statewide with its orders.

“Early and strong action, and in particular early and strong action in densely populated places, is going to get the largest return in terms of slowing the virus,” Andrew Friedson, one of the study’s authors, told Capital & Main in an email exchange.

“This isn’t just conjecture,” added Friedson, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Colorado, Denver. “We released a second study looking at shelter-in-place in the entire country, which backs this up.”

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Westword

Ecologist and Professor Greg Cronin on Recording Haitian Rappers

May 5, 2020

Applied ecologist Greg Cronin has spent a lot of time in Haiti in various capacities over the past decade: working as associate professor of integrative biology and sustainability at the University of Colorado Denver, running his nonprofit Yon Sel Lanmou, and recording Haitian rappers.
“I know enough people here and have enough friends and family here that I'm well taken care of,” he says. “I mean, it does concern me that the medical facilities here are subpar. And so if I was to get sick, I would be kind of on my own, whereas in America, I would have access to medical care. And at the age of 53, I can't say I'm not concerned. It scares me a little bit, but I've done the risk assessment and risk management, and I made the choice to be here.”

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National Park Service

Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site accepting applications for National Park Service Teacher Ranger Teacher program

May 4, 2020

The TRT program is administered through an agreement with the National Park Service and the University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver). While participating in the program, teachers are considered “student interns” of the university and will be able to earn continuing education graduate credits as part of the TRT program. A $3,000 stipend will be administered to the TRT via CU Denver upon successful completion of both the NPS and CU Denver program requirements.

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The Denverite

Denver unemployment claims are sky-high, but that only says so much about the local economy

May 7, 2020

The U.S. private sector shed more than 20 million jobs in April, according to payroll company ADP. Losses that big will include jobs that have simply vanished. But while some local businesses are closing for good, not all will. Some restaurants, for instance, will stay open but shed staff.
The permanence of the jobless surge is one of many mysteries sponsored by the pandemic, said Andrew Friedson, assistant professor of economics at the University of Colorado Denver.
“When it comes to jobs, it’s difficult to know how many jobs are lost and how many jobs are just pushed off until later,” Friedson said. “Because it’s difficult to know how much of it is demand being held back that’s going to come back into the economy once people feel safe participating.”

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