In the past couple of years, it’s been common to try out some new do-it-yourself home projects or even some larger-scale renovation projects. Maybe you decided to hammer out a new deck to give yourself a more enjoyable outdoor oasis or perhaps you updated your home office while working more hours from home. But while the rest of us were figuring out which paint colors worked the best in our updated spaces, Becky Brown ’92 and Paul Williams ’89 were finishing up a much bigger—and much more complex—project.
Adrian Lara-Mejia was just 13 when he started his own landscaping business. With the help of his parents, operators of a Denver housekeeping business, he transformed an effort to earn extra cash into a growing enterprise with 25 clients. His parents also inspired him to take on his next goal: college.
In its 2022 evaluations of the state of mental health in the U.S., Mental Health America ranks Colorado poorly for access to mental health services, a shortcoming amplified for those of lesser means.
Sandra and Gareth Eaton have been training young scientists in the field of chemistry for 50 years. As professors in DU’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, they share a passion for science. Chemistry is what brought them together; good chemistry is what binds them.
With nearly a third of the U.S. facing excessive heat warnings and the U.K. coming off of a stretch of record high temperatures, weather is dominating headlines around the world.
As a freshman, Sociology student Naiya Budler came to Western Colorado University to compete with the cross-country team. For as long as she could remember, Budler used running as an escape. Yet, in the second semester of her freshman year at Western, Budler was diagnosed with a string of chronic illnesses that prevented her from continuing her running career.
Since June, the number of COVID-19 infections started rising again, as the most transmissible omicron variant started picking up delta variant mutations leading to new subvariants BA.4/BA.5 and Deltacron variants. Out of all the five known variants of concern, which have been shown to evade therapeutic antibodies and vaccines developed against unmutated, original SARS-CoV-2 virus, delta is the most virulent leading to severe symptoms and increased mortality among infected people. A new peer-reviewed study provides answers to why delta is the most lethal variant of SARS-CoV-2.
Western Colorado University’s Nature Writing concentration in the Graduate Program in Creative Writing (GPCW) is set to release its first book-length publication through Western Press books. The announcement of the first title is to come this summer.
They ask us with their pleading looks and waggling tails: “Can we go for a walk? Can we go out and play?” It’s hard to say no to our four-legged friends when they need to stretch their legs, socialize and get a snout-full of smells. Fortunately, Denver is a city that loves its dogs, and there are 13 off-leash dog parks where they can safely romp and roam.
For the past few decades, the sheriff’s office has relied on different law enforcement agencies to train its recruits. But that all changed on June 9, when Sheriff Tyler Brown won final approval from P.O.S.T., Colorado's Peace Officers Standards and Training, to operate his own academy.
When University of Colorado College of Nursing student Rebecca Feldman was delivering hydromorphone through an intravenous drip to an injured patient, the new medical device she was using started flashing “Occluded! Occluded!” For a moment, she didn’t know what to do. Fortunately, it was just a test. Feldman was taking part in an exercise with other nursing and bioengineering students at the University of Colorado to test medical devices and improve healthcare.
Like many industries, airlines are experiencing staff shortages. But unlike other industries that can hire new employees and get them working in weeks or even days, airlines require years of costly training to bring aspiring aviators on board.