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Seven faculty and students find skeletal muscle respiration a better predictor of endurance for cyclists

January 20, 2020

A team of seven faculty and students found that the measure of an athlete’s skeletal muscle respiration is a better predictor for how a cyclist will perform in endurance events in the January 2020 issue of Physiological Reports. (More)

UCCS researchers highlight changed perceptions of refugees over past 100 years

January 16, 2020

Emily Skop, professor and chair of the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, recently collaborated with alumna Arielle Cassiday ’18 and librarian Joel Tonyan on research surrounding the language used to describe refugeeism over the past 100 years. (More)

Bloom receives NSF grant to develop car cybersecurity systems

January 10, 2020

Gedeare Bloom received a $20,620 grant award for “CPS: Breakthrough: Collaborative Research: Track and Fallback: Intrusion Detection to Counteract Carjack Hacks with Fail-Operational Feedback.” The award was provided by the National Science Foundation. (More)

Nine join UCCS in December

January 10, 2020

Nine people accepted positions at UCCS in December 2019, according to the Office of Human Resources. (More)

Guinness publishes first book on the art of Rosemarie Trockel

January 9, 2020

In the first academic book published exclusively on German artist Rosemarie Trockel, professor Katherine Guinness channels the same genre-bending spirit of Trockel’s own work. (More)

UCCS in Focus: 2019 in Review

January 3, 2020

As we move into a new decade, we take a look back at some of the most memorable stories and moments from 2019. (More)

Dunn analyzes Supreme Court decision and impact on the Lemon Test in winter 2020 issue of Education News

January 1, 2020

Josh Dunn published an article titled “Supreme Court Partially Junks a Lemon: American Legion Cross Case May Make It Harder to Sue Schools over Religion” in the winter 2020 edition of Education Next. (More)

Oman’s mathematical problem accepted by The College Mathematics Journal

December 31, 2019

Greg Oman, an editor for the “Problems and Solutions” section of The College Mathematics Journal, had a submission for a problem accepted by journal in its first issue of 2020. (More)

Boult wins first-ever Outstanding Research Mentorship Award

December 13, 2019

Six individuals nominated El Pomar Endowed Professor of Innovation and Security Terry Boult for the award in recognition of his efforts to guide students and peers towards research success. (More)

UCCS, MIT algorithm shows Alabama should be in College Football Playoff

December 13, 2019

An algorithm developed by researchers at UCCS and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology intended to remove the inertia that national rankings carry shows that Alabama, and not Oklahoma, should be the No. 4 seed in the College Football Playoff. (More)