Amid a loneliness epidemic, students find connection on campus
This story appears in the fall 2025 issue of MSU Denver Magazine. Every month, Ashley Blondo emails 50 or so friends, friends…
Category: Health
Future-proof: Care remains at the core of nursing
Editor’s note: Throughout the 2025–26 academic year, RED’s Future-proof series will focus on the critical role public universities play in…
Diagnosed with terminal cancer, Nursing grad overcomes the odds
Jimena Malta Zuniga started at Metropolitan State University of Denver in fall of 2020, in the middle of the Covid-19…
Building bridges: Changing the way we understand and provide brain injury care
When Catrina Harrell, a student in Metropolitan State University of Denver’s Speech-Language Pathology program, began working with Associate Professor Kathy…
More than the source of a vaccine controversy, measles can be a serious disease
For all the controversy over measles vaccines, and the talk of outbreaks in Colorado and elsewhere, little has been said…
Experts sound the alarm on Chagas disease. Should Coloradans be concerned?
Public health experts are asking for Chagas disease, often called “kissing bug disease,” to be classified as endemic in the…
Future-proof: Why nutritionists are in such high demand
Editor’s note: Throughout the 2025-26 academic year, RED’s Future-proof series will focus on the critical role public universities play in…
Frank Day, champion of hospitality and health care education, dies at 93
Frank Day, a pioneering Colorado restaurateur whose generous support of Metropolitan State University of Denver will help shape the state’s…
Apprenticeship opens doors for aspiring social workers
Matthew Bustos never imagined he could afford to pursue a master’s degree in Social Work. After nearly a decade as…
Colorado’s wet weather fuels West Nile virus risks
Last week, Colorado recorded its first human death of the year attributed to West Nile virus. The death of an…