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Jun 24, 2022

This month, a group of 23 young professionals traveled from their homes in Africa to the University of Colorado Denver, as part of the Mandela Washington Fellowship. The fellowship is a six-week leadership and academic program, where participants can further their careers and make international connections.

Jun 25, 2022

Since its inception in 2014, the Mandela Washington Fellowship program has seen participation from more than 5000 young African leaders from all countries on the continent. That’s according to the Department of State’s Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) program website.

May 23, 2022 by Maria Limon

Maria Limon, Rural Technical Assistance Manager and Fostering Youth Leadership Specialist for the Center on Domestic Violence at the CU Denver School of Public Affairs, shares powerful experiences of working with Team Unstoppable, a group of youth leaders at several high schools in Denver for the last year and a half. They are “an unstoppable movement using humanity’s compassion and love to end all forms of violence.”

May 10, 2022

One faculty member from each school and college has been selected to receive the TIAA Chancellor’s Urban Engaged Scholars award for the second year. Presented by CityCenter, this award recognizes the outstanding contributions of CU Denver faculty to the Denver-metro region through research and creative activities that drive our community forward.

May 5, 2022

Growing up in Los Angeles with her mother and grandmother who were Mexican immigrants, CU Denver Student Chloe Frazee never imagined she would attend college, let alone graduate. “Mom worked a lot, and my grandma couldn’t speak English,” she says. At 15, Frazee and her older brother moved to Colorado to live with their godparents. “I’d been struggling with school and moved to be closer to family here.”

Apr 28, 2022

Each year CU Denver honors one of the university’s greatest assets – our remarkable faculty – with the faculty excellence awards. These accolades recognize superior accomplishments in teaching, leadership and service, research and creative work, librarianship, faculty mentoring, and practices related to instructional, research, and clinical faculty.

Apr 25, 2022 by Toula Wellbrook

First year PhD student Tierney Bamrick was recently accepted in the inaugural Ostrom Summer Academy, a six-week program hosted by the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University Bloomington. Its purpose is to “introduce early-career scholars and practitioners to the literatures and methodologies for which the Ostrom Workshop is known, including but not limited to: Ostrom Design Principles, Analytical Frameworks (IAD, GKC, SES), Polycentricity, and the Bloomington School.” During the Academy, Tierney will work on a project to theorize creativity as a common pool resource. This includes analysis of polycentric arts and culture systems and relates to recent expansions of Ostrom frameworks to philanthropy and knowledge commons.

Mar 28, 2022 by Toula Wellbrook

PhD student Jongeun You published an article titled “Strengthening Cybersecurity of Water Infrastructure through Legislative Actions,” in the Journal of the American Water Resources Association and “Reinforcing Cybersecurity in the Water Sector” published in the trade magazine Water Resources IMPACT. In addition, You was interviewed by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada for his 2021 article “Advancing International Cooperation as a Strategy for Managing Pandemics,” which contributed to the report “Toward an Ecosystem Approach: COVID-19, Canada-Asia Pacific Relations, and International Organizations.”

Mar 28, 2022 by Toula Wellbrook

PhD students Julia Cummings (pictured left) and Stephanie Puello were awarded National Civic League Pforzheimer Fellowship Mini-Grants. The program—named for Carl H. Pforzheimer Jr., who served on the board of the National Civic League for many years and was a banker, civic leader, and philanthropist in New York City—assists students in conducting research on public affairs.

Feb 28, 2022 by Toula Wellbrook

PhD student Jongeun You will join the Colorado School of Mines in May 2022 as a postdoctoral fellow. He will conduct research to evaluate the role of hydropower in a changing energy system. Congratulations to Jongeun and to his advisors Drs. Weible, Heikkila, and Swann! Also, You recently published an article titled “Reinforcing Cybersecurity in the Water Sector” in the trade magazine Water Resources IMPACT.

Feb 28, 2022 by Toula Wellbrook

PhD student Adam Croft has been named an American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) Founders’ Fellow. The ASPA Founders’ Fellows program recognizes outstanding students and new professionals (within three years of their graduation) in the field of public service and public administration.

Jan 18, 2022 by Toula Wellbrook

On December 10, the SPA PhD Student Association hosted its annual Zoom Scholar Series event featuring Dr. Pamela Herd of Georgetown University, who presented "Racialized Burdens: Applying Racialized Organization Theory to the Administrative State.”

Jan 18, 2022 by Toula Wellbrook

PhD student and SPA lecturer Jongeun You published a book review on climate justice in the journal Progress in Development Studies. The reviewed book is Governance & Climate Justice: Global South & Developing Nations.

Nov 30, 2021 by Toula Wellbrook

In October, CU Denver announced the winners of the CU Denver 2021 Pandemic Research and Creative Activities Award. PhD candidates and SPA lecturers Stephanie Bultema and Jongeun You were recipients of the Student Award for student MVPs who went above and beyond to contribute to research and the pandemic effort at large.

Mar 21, 2022

We often assume the ideal about our governments: they should act proportionately to the problems at hand. Governments should respond to minor issues with minor policy changes and major issues with major policy changes. This assumption of proportionality cumbers the effectiveness of solutions found across literatures, including adaptive management, sustainable development, and direct and deliberative democracy.

Mar 29, 2022 by Toula Wellbrook

U.S. News & World Report today released its 2023 Best Graduate Schools Rankings, in which the University of Colorado Denver School of Public Affairs is ranked number 29 in the nation overall for public affairs programs. The school is also ranked in the Top 25 for five sub-specialty rankings.

Mar 10, 2022

Artist, educator, activist, and School of Public Affairs graduate student Ricky Abilez can officially add “University of Colorado Thomas Jefferson Award winner” to their ever-growing list of titles. The system-level award, which honors students, faculty, and staff members who are committed to advancing public service, education, and the arts, serves as a reminder to Abilez that the work they do matters.

Mar 3, 2022

CU Denver alum Brad Reubendale, executive director of SAME (So All May Eat) Café on East Colfax, knows all too well what it means to lose everything. At 17, he and his family were excommunicated from the Missouri cult he’d been raised in. “The only humans I knew were my brothers and my parents until I got my feet back under me working in youth services for the Salvation Army.”

Mar 1, 2022

If a pandemic isn’t enough to accelerate the energy transition, then what is? Professors Tanya Heikkila and Chris Weible take on this question, along with PhD in Public Affairs alumnus Dr. Alex Osei-Kojo and Dr. Amy Pickle from Duke University.