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Grand Ronde members worked the fields and made Willamette Valley the ‘hop capital of the world’

November 29, 2021

Every summer from around ages 7 to 12, Joyce Ham traveled with her parents and cousins from Grand Ronde to harvest hops at a farm in Keizer. This was the late 1930s and early ’40s, and the work helped her family buy her school clothes. Ham’s time in the hop harvest is part of a long history of Native American people harvesting hops and other crops in the Willamette Valley and contributing to making the Willamette Valley known by the early 1900s as the “hop capital of the world.” In this era, the Willamette Valley hop industry was on the rise, and growers struggled to find seasonal workers to harvest the hops, said Peter Kopp, a history professor at the University of Colorado Denver and author of “Hoptopia: A World of Agriculture and Beer in Oregon’s Willamette Valley.” “The important context for the Indian history is this is when most tribes had been put on reservations,” Kopp said. “It led more to wage labor rather than traditional economies.”

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The Wall Street Journal

How the Covid-19 Pandemic Changed Employee Training

November 27, 2021

There are some fundamental changes under way in how companies train their workers. Out are the long, boring, in-person classes that companies have used for decades to get employees up to speed on every aspect of their jobs. Instead, bosses are tapping technologies that deliver training whether employees are at the office or at home. And they are using new ways of packaging that training, making it more palatable and useful to workers who often got bored or distracted with sitting in a classroom or watching endless videos. This shift was already under way before Covid-19, but the pandemic moved things along significantly, says Katy Tynan, a principal analyst at Forrester Research. When it comes to training, one and done is easy. But it’s ineffective. Employees need to practice and maintain the momentum of continuing training to ensure that the new skills will be applied to the job. “You need to have regular reinforcement of what you’ve been learning,” says Wayne Cascio.

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Wiley Industry News

Purmundus Challenge presented for the ninth time

November 23, 2021

The annual international design competition for 3D and 4D printing was concluded in Frankfurt on 18 November 2021 as part of the Formnext exhibition. A total of eight submissions received the coveted gold trophies. The finalists of this year's purmundus challenge, which took place in 2021 under the motto “Innovation in Progress”, were presented with their prizes during Formnext. The award-winning developments range from ballet shoes to 3D-printed musical instruments, bicycle helmets, heat exchangers and brake calipers. In addition, the following special awards were presented at Formnext – The Innovation Prize was awarded to Martin L. Dunn, Dean and Professor College of Engineering, Design and Computing University of Colorado Denver for the project “Bespoke 3D Printed Soft Robots”.

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The Governance Institute

Digital Orientation of Health Systems Post-COVID-19

November 19, 2021

While the COVID-19 pandemic magnified key healthcare challenges including cost, quality, and delivery in the United States, it also exposed unique solutions to these challenges, particularly in the world of digital health. Innovative technologies have helped researchers track and model viral spread, as well as monitor and analyze various data crucial to governmental public health decisions. Several technologies also improved the experience of frontline healthcare professionals, including the broad use of electronic medical records (EMRs). A team of researchers at the University of Colorado Denver—Jiban Khuntia, Ph.D., Rulon Stacey, Ph.D., and Xue Ning, Ph.D.—recently published a study that explores the steps heath systems could take to advance digital orientation beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. They provide recommendations so that “technology and strategy align together to drive proper digital transformation and ultimately provide a competitive advantage.”

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La Voz

Que Pasa Week of 11/17/21

November 17, 2021

The Next Stage Gallery, located in the Arts Complex, directly across from the Buell, has reopened with a grand immersive exhibition: Through the Looking Glass. The space has been transformed into a visual delight that is appropriate for all-ages and features the incredible artistry of Chris Bagley, Bill Nelson, Ashley Boucher, Tori Davis, and the students of Professor Melissa Furness of the College of Arts and Media with the University of Colorado Denver. This exhibition is free and open to the public. Please check our website for hours and directions. Visit www.nextstagecu.org/ for more details.

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New York Daily News

Embrace retail cannabis, New York: Why localities should opt in

November 17, 2021

Ever since Gov. Hochul ascended to the top job in August, there has been much-needed momentum toward establishing New York’s recreational cannabis marketplace. Despite the enthusiasm for the nascent sector — a sector that’s earned the support of nearly two-thirds of New Yorkers — there are local debates raging all over the state, as localities consider opting out of cannabis retail and on-site consumption. Earlier this year, two economists from the University of Colorado at Denver, Daniel I. Rees, and Montana State University performed a comprehensive review of public health consequences of cannabis legalization, encompassing dozens of published studies. On traffic safety, they found that “road safety improves when medical marijuana is legalized,” noting cannabis as a beneficial substitute for alcohol and opioids (both statistically lead to impaired driving).

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The Washington Post

Why cautious parents should choose vaccination for their children

November 9, 2021

By Jennifer Reich, professor of sociology at the University of Colorado Denver and author of "Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines." Even before the coronavirus pandemic, some parents felt vaccine decisions for their children were challenging and fraught with uncertainties. As researchers who have spent more than a decade examining vaccine decision-making, we have heard this small but growing group of parents describe their concerns time and again. The fears vary, but they almost always pertain to safety, such as whether a child might be one of the unlucky ones to suffer an adverse reaction or whether there are long-term effects of vaccines that are not yet understood.

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MarketWatch

Fear of missing out is driving the stock market — and having this surprising effect as well, research finds

November 10, 2021

Tuesday marked the end of a remarkable run of eight straight advances for the S&P 500 SPX, and to be honest, apart from Tesla TSLA, things weren’t actually that bad — 249 components rose versus 247 that fell. So what’s driving investment behavior that has sent the S&P 500 up 25% this year? Is it fear of missing out? Yosef Bonaparte, the director of external affairs in finance and associate professor of finance at CU Denver Business School and a Janus Henderson Investors research associate, decided to quantify the term that has been around for around 20 years, and used widely enough that it has spawned academic research and even an exchange-traded fund with FOMO as a ticker. In his own research paper, Bonaparte devises a FOMO index, based on market momentum, Google keyword searches and investor use of margin accounts.

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The Colorado Sun

Denver was a reform darling. Now, union-supported candidates hold all 7 board seats.

November 7, 2021

The Denver school board is once again politically unanimous — but in the opposite way it was four years ago. In a complete flip, all seven members will now be backed by the Denver teachers union instead of by education reform organizations. Rob Gould, president of the Denver Classroom Teachers Association, and Carrie Olson, president of the school board, said they see the result as a vote of confidence in teachers. But Parker Baxter, director of the Center for Education Policy Analysis at the University of Colorado Denver, said that interpretation discounts the educators who don’t belong to the union, including teachers who work at Denver’s 58 charter schools.

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Architectural Digest

CAP faculty members Stephen Dynia and Chris Shears (principal at SAR) featured in Architectural Digest Denver Roundup.

November 1, 2021

It’s no secret that in 2020 Americans were doing a lot of moving around. And the city of Denver was where more than a few of them landed. Easy access to the Rocky Mountains may have topped many’s lists of reasons for picking Colorado’s capital, but aesthetes too couldn’t have better timed relocating to the Mile High City. Because, right now, it’s at the height of an art and design boom.

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BUNTE.de

Unexpected Effect: Horror Movies Can Be Good for Your Health

November 3, 2021

Andrew Scahill, an assistant professor at the University of Colorado at Denver and an industry-advising horror film expert, asks the following questions: "When we think about what horror offers us, how could it be pleasant in any way? Why should we expose ourselves to a negative effect?" The scientist also has an answer ready: "Today we have something that could be called "proxy theory". It essentially states that horror movies in some way allow us to control our fear of death by providing us with a substitute experience."

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The Denver Post

From redlining to greening: Coalition wants to restore nature to RiNo, Five Points

November 2, 2021

Nearly half of Denver is paved over, up from less than 20% in the mid-1970s, according on a 2019 Denver Post analysis. American Forests said more trees can cool neighborhoods and reduce the “urban heat island effect” that is expected to worsen with climate change. Daytime temperatures in the paved-over, treeless parts of a city can be 5 to 7 degrees warmer during the day and even hotter at night.

In RiNo, only about 9% of the area has tree canopy compared to an average of 24% for the city overall, said Mallory Luebke, a research assistant at the University of Colorado-Denver’s school of architecture and planning.

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