School was out and the student doctor was in – as was the ophthalmologist, the dentist, the pharmacist and others in the health field. The Urban Underserved Track (UUT) at the CU School of Medicine held its second health fair in partnership with Spring Institute for Intercultural Learning at the New America School in Denver, providing mostly immigrant students and their communities free health and vision screenings after the bell and before bedtime.
The University of Colorado this semester will hold several town halls and listening sessions on its process to develop a new financial strategy. The first, "Financial Futures Town Hall," is on...
Only 17.7 percent of the biographical pages on Wikipedia are women. This group wants to change that.
(Megan) Moriarty took her presentation to the CU Boulder College of Music where students were performing music by black female composers. … Moriarty helped the CU Music Buffs add their research...
In this month’s CU on the Air, we talk with Catalin Grigoras, director, and Cole Whitecotton, IT professional, at the National Center for Media Forensics at CU Denver. The only one of its kind in the U.S., the center not only graduates the top media forensics specialists, it and its students assist law enforcement and government investigations, researches scientific methodology, conduct analysis of raw audio and video and, importantly, the digital manipulation of audio and video.
Underrepresented ethnic minorities make up about one-third of the U.S. population, but when it comes to undergraduates who earn engineering degrees, only 4 percent are African-Americans, 10 percent are Latinx, and less than 1 percent are indigenous. Even fewer underrepresented minorities – only about 6 percent – become engineering faculty members, according to the National Science Foundation (NSF).
