Meet a Mountain Lion: Clay Garner, Deputy Chief of UCCS Police
Meet Clay Garner, Deputy Chief of UCCS Police, as part of the “Meet a Mountain Lion” series. (More)
Articles by Anna Squires
Meet a Mountain Lion: Zak Kroger, Director of the UCCS Downtown Site
Meet Zak Kroger, Director of the UCCS Downtown Site, as part of the “Meet a Mountain Lion” series. (More)
Were tenure-clock stops a gift for all faculty?
Tenure clock-stops during COVID-19 were meant to be a “gift” of time and space for pre-tenure faculty. But not all faculty were able to leverage the time as effectively. A new research study by senior leaders within the CU System documents which faculty opted in and out of tenure-clock extensions — and some long-term ramifications of their decisions. (More)
7 Questions with Susan Brandt, author of “Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia”
In her new book, Susan Brandt, Lecturer in the Department of History at UCCS, unearthed a flourishing tradition of women up and down the medical hierarchy. But early American history has ignored their stories — until now. (More)
Theatreworks season tickets on sale Aug. 1, free to UCCS students
Starting Aug. 1, UCCS students can reserve tickets to see the entire 2022–23 season of award-winning and critically acclaimed Theatreworks productions for free. (More)
Photo Feature: High school students experience first science labs at UCCS
This summer, the first-ever UCCS STEM Outreach Program brought underrepresented high school students to the UCCS campus to experience science labs in a university setting. (More)
Kids have never spent less time playing outside. This UCCS researcher wants to help.
Children today spend less time outdoors than any other generation. Ji Hyun Oh, Assistant Professor of Teaching and Learning at UCCS, has been awarded grant funding from the Froebel Trust to help bring outdoor play back into kindergarten classrooms. (More)
7 Questions with Rebecca Theobald, author of “The 2020 Colorado Third Congressional District Election”
What factors led to Lauren Boebert’s meteoric rise in 2020? Rebecca Theobald, Assistant Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at UCCS, has one answer: the division between rural and urban voters in Colorado. (More)
Intestinal parasites found in Mississippi children “embody” inequality
New research from Tara Cepon-Robins, Associate Professor of Anthropology at UCCS, shows another way that poverty “lives” in the body: intestinal parasites. The rural Mississippi children she studied showed intestinal inflammation rates 17 times higher than Indigenous children in Amazonian Ecuador. (More)
Wynn and Coolidge co-author “An Introduction to Evolutionary Cognitive Archaeology”
Thomas Wynn, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, and Fred Coolidge, Professor of Psychology, have co-authored the first concise introduction to the evolutionary cognitive archaeology discipline. (More)