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Survey finds 40% of college students experience food insecurity; how local colleges are helping

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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MedIndia

Schools do influence e-cigarette use: here’s how

October 1, 2019

High schoolers are the unexpected consequence of vaping devices and e-cigarettes even though they were meant for adult smokers as a safer alternative.

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Westword

Durango Songwriters Expo brings a summer-camp vibe to the industry

September 30, 2019

Owen Kortz heads up the singer-songwriter program at the University of Colorado Denver and became involved with the Durango Songwriters Expo several years ago through a former student. Kortz says that he takes his students to Nashville and L.A. about once a semester, so the expo is also an excellent way for him to connect with people ahead of those trips.
A folk musician himself, Kortz says the feedback he gets during the listening sessions is helpful to him as a songwriter.

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Westword

CU Denver English Experiences CultureKlatsch

September 24, 2019

If you’ve had your fill of listening to people drink wine and talk about murder or ghosts and need a literary-podcast palate cleanser, the University of Colorado Denver’s English Department will be dropping CultureKlatsch this week.
We caught up with Nathalia Velez Ryan, host and co-creator of CultureKlatsch, to talk about all the literary goodness in the new podcast.

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Denver7

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

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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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