COVID-19
Our faculty and community are leaning into the challenges of the COVID-19 crisis and responding to it through research, creative works and community engagement. Here are a few highlights of these efforts.
For more information about the University's response to COVID-19 and answers to frequently asked questions, please visit the DU COVID-19 website.
Featured Stories
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Alumni & Community
Economics Alumnus Helps Colorado’s Rural Economies
University of Denver economics alumnus Bryce Jones (MA ’21) meets with regional teams and engages with residents as he collects and analyzes demographic, socio-economic and business development trends across Colorado’s 54 rural counties. Jones then transforms this data into critical information used to make larger structural decisions about how to allocate funding and other government resources to these communities. -
Research & Scholarship
DU and National Jewish Health Grow Partnership Through Microgrants
In July 2020, National Jewish became DU’s strategic health partner, helping to organize COVID testing on campus and later, vaccination events. Now this partnership has created a new opportunity, providing seed-funding grants for cross-disciplinary research projects at DU, including one from Psychology Professor Anne DePrince. -
Research & Scholarship
The “Motherhood Penalty”: COVID’s Impact on Working Women
Between the pandemic, closed daycare centers and schools, work from home and isolation from support systems, working mothers have had countless challenges to negotiate and too few resources to draw on. In this episode, RadioEd talks with Lindsey Feitz, director of the University of Denver’s Gender and Women’s Studies program and a mom herself, about what this means for gender roles, which mothers are the most vulnerable and postpandemic concerns.
Faculty in the News
Colorado's colleges and universities are proving that containing COVID-19 is possible
Sarah Watamura, Department of Psychology
In KUSA TV 9-News
How political polarization broke America’s vaccine campaign
Seth Masket, Political Science Department
In Vox
What Will Become of the Pandemic Pets?
Ingrid Tague, Department of History
In The New Yorker
Asian Americans in Colorado say enough is enough after year of pandemic-related hate
Ping Qiu, Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures
In The Denver Gazette
Colorado’s billionaires are nearly $10 billion richer since March 2020
Markus Schneider, Department of Economics
In The Denver Post
For working moms, stimulus bill is a 'total game changer'
Casey Stockstill, Department of Sociology & Criminology
In Sentinel Source
COVID in Colorado: How Local News Has Changed
Kareem El Damanhoury, Media, Film & Journalism Studies
In Fox 31
How Much Did COVID-19 Affect The 2020 Election?
Zoom Funerals, Outdoor Classes: Jails and Prisons Evolve Amid the Pandemic
DU Prison Arts Initiative, Department of Theatre
In The Marshall Project
If your pandemic partner is getting on your last nerve, try these tips to repair your relationship
Howard Markman, Department of Psychology
In The Washington Post
The cost of child care was already astronomical. In the pandemic, it’s ‘terrifying.’
Unemployment And Housing Benefits Are Expiring. Colorado Will Try To Stop The Bleeding With A Modest Stimulus
Paula Cole, Department of Economics
In Colorado Public Radio
Going Virtual Allows Prison Arts Program To Provide Incarcerated People With Outlet For Healing
Ashley Hamilton, DU Prison Arts Initiative, Department of Theatre
In KUNC
From Plaster to Plastic, Artists Take Inventive Approaches to Face Masks
Vicki Myhren Gallery, School of Art & Art History
In Hyperallergic
Deep political disagreements can coexist with universal support for vaccines
Jeanne Abrams, Holocaust Awareness Institute, Center for Judaic Studies
In The Washington Post
Students Engaging in Research
University of Denver Psychology Professor Howard Markman and students taking his Couples Therapy and Relationship Education class decided to take a closer look at this unprecedented time of prolonged togetherness. The class created an anonymous poll to gauge the impact coronavirus has had on relationships.
Along with working with his class on this topic, Markman and fellow Psychology Professor Scott Stanley wrote an article for Family Process, "Helping Couples in the Shadow of COVID-19." The article discusses important foundations of safety for relationship and highlights three key concepts that can help couples protect their relationships. The article also notes patterns from the Couples Therapy and Relationship Education class's survey.
Alumni Stories
Out of the Pandemic, a New Marketplace for Native Ingredients
Featuring Ben Jacobs and Matt Chandra, alumni from the Departments of History and Media, Film & Journalism Studies
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The Criminalization of Mask Wearing Against Black Bodies
Featuring Aliyah Williams, alumna from the Departments of Psychology, Sociology/Criminology and Political Science
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Research Impacting Communities
Alejandro Cerón, associate professor in the Department of Anthropology, researches the interconnections between public health and the right to health. His current research aims to understand how knowledge about public health issues is created and disseminated. Cerón was invited to collaborate with the Health Commission of Pacto Ciudadano, a coalition of more than 100 civil society organizations promoting human rights and transparency in Guatemalan public institutions.
Pacto Ciudadano's Health Commission is working to make information about COVID-19 prevention available to community leaders and organizations across the country. Cerón and collaborators from the commission created a first version of the community guidelines and are currently working on an improved second version. Additionally, DU student Zoi Johns (who is majoring in international studies and anthropology) helped design a website where people can find the community guidelines and other relevant resources. Johns serves as an undergraduate research assistant for the DU Ethnography Lab thanks to a Dean's Award for Interdisciplinary Studies grant. In yet another DU connection to the project, the DU Latino Center for Community Engagement and Scholarship is funding indigenous artists to produce short informational videos with audio in the four major indigenous languages spoken in Guatemala.
Read a Q&A with Alejandro Cerón
