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)
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)
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)
The future of cancer research will be localized and non-invasive, says Bob Camley, Chair of the Department of Physics at UCCS. And he’s been awarded a Fulbright Scholar Award to the University of Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia to develop methods that could make it possible. (More)
Brandon Runnels, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UCCS, has been granted a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to study why materials break — and how we can keep them from breaking — to make the world a safer place. NSF CAREER Awards are among the most prestigious accolades available to early-career academics. (More)
33 student-faculty pairs have been awarded funds to conduct original, year-long research projects and creative works. The teams make up the largest-ever UCCS Undergraduate Research Academy cohort. (More)
11 UCCS faculty members received more than $82,000 in funding through the 2022 Committee on Research and Creative Works’ seed grants, which aim to expand research excellence for a diverse portfolio of UCCS scholars. (More)
The University of Colorado Colorado Springs will celebrate 23 books published by UCCS authors in the past two years at the UCCS Book Party, held from 5–7 p.m. on Apr. 29 at the Heller Center for Arts & Humanities. (More)
Jennifer Kling, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at UCCS, answered seven questions on “The Philosophy of Protest: Fighting for Justice without Going to War.” Kling calls it “a theory of protest for our world.” (More)
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, many teams may work remotely forever. So how can they maximize their effectiveness? Research from Kay Yoon, Associate Professor in the UCCS Department of Communication, applies social media theory to communication tools to discover the answer. (More)
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