MSU Denver secures funding to offer paid fellowships to undocumented students

Metropolitan State University of Denver has secured three years of funding to pilot paid short-term fellowships for TheDream.US scholars through…

Student-athletes with autism set sights on Paralympics

September has been a standout month for Jonathan and Jordan Duran, 23-year-old twins from Arvada. First, the twins competed in…

Aspiring therapists gain credit and a new perspective helping patients in Mexico

What’s the most good you can do in five minutes? That’s the question Juan Jose Andrade asked himself while working…

Partnership opens pipeline from MSU Denver to Lockheed Martin

While in the Air Force, Soren Singpiel always dreamed he would one day work at Lockheed Martin. Stationed in Japan,…

Grad students provide gender-affirming voice care for Denver’s trans community

Here’s an experiment: Try saying the letter “M” out loud. Did your face vibrate in your cheeks or sinuses? How…

Colorado has an overflow of job openings — and nobody to fill them

Colorado’s workforce is struggling. After historically relying on transplants with college degrees to contribute to the workforce, the state now…

More students earn college credit in high school

In elementary school, Mattie Smith was a perfectionist — a straight-A student with an interest in the environment and biology….

‘Lifesaving’ stipend puts more teachers in classrooms

Editor’s note: Gov. Jared Polis signed the Expanding Assistance for Educator Programs bill into law April 10, making more student-educators…

Back on track and breaking records

Editor’s note (updated story on Feb. 21, 2023): Maya Ries’ record-breaking season continues this week at the Rocky Mountain Athletic…

What it means to be a first-generation college student

The odds were stacked against Diyonus Walls, a first-generation student and Black woman who will graduate in December with a…