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Struggling to meet demand

The ship was supposed to come in the day after the earthquake. Because the port was destroyed, the medical supplies the ship would have delivered to Port-au-Prince were rerouted to the Bahamas. Full story

Campus Corner

Bike parking may increase

When spring hits, students who start riding their bikes to class may notice that there is a shortage of bike parking. The student government at Metro is holding a school-wide contest that would help solve the problem.

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UC Denver professor wins prestigious award

This year, the University of Colorado awarded the Thomas Jefferson Award to three UC Denver faculty members: Gillian Siverman, assistant professor of English; Andrés Lema-Hincapié, assistant professor and advisor for Spanish majors; and Stephen Hartnett, associate professor and chair of the communication department in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

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Concert for earthquake victims

While rallying at the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade, UC Denver senior Olynda Mileon was approached by UCD Associate Professor of English Cate Wiley. Wiley was trying to put together a benefit concert for the victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti. The result of that meeting is a benefit concert with a secret headliner.

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Headlines instead of handouts

You can hardly step around a street corner in Denver without running into one of the Denver VOICE newspaper vendors. They’re everywhere—holding stacks of brightly colored issues, satchels strung around their torsos, calling out for donations.

Asbestos removal underway

Most campus buildings were built in the 1970s, a time when asbestos was typically used in construction. That’s why over the past month, a survey has been conducted on buildings on campus for this potential hazard. Asbestos is only hazardous if it becomes airborne; thus, samples are collected using methods that ensure that none is released.

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Campus collaboration

Although the student march for higher education is not until March 3, student governments at Auraria are already working to spread awareness for the cause.

SGA votes on class schedule proposal

At the request of the UC Denver administration, the Student Government Association unanimously voted to recommend a new class schedule at UCD that would increase the number of classes housed at the university.

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Reload with CAM Records

CAM Records realeses its new media-packed external hard drives, conveniently attached to rubber wristbands. Currently, the wristband includes the trailer to professor and filmmaker David Liban’s Mortal Lessons, CAM Record’s latest CD release From These Words, and tracks from Speak Easy Tiger and Delirium, bands that include former CAM students.

True Crime

Lots of things stolen

Big brother is always watching. When he's finished, we make jokes about what he saw.

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A Health Center volunteer equips a student with a temporary tattoo. Although the tat is the Virgin Mary, and the student is a secular-humanist, it is the only way he can get served at any of the hipster bars in Capitol Hill and South Broadway.

UC Personality

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Jeff Merkel

Professor uses physics to make music a tangible art form

Jeff Merkel is an instructor in both the recording arts and physics departments at UC Denver, but before he settled down on teaching, he was in a band, worked in a chemistry lab, and ran a recording studio full-time.

Need to Know

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Army of hand sanitizers deployed to fight flu

You need to know this. Seriously.

Ride a bike, stop parking fees

Don’t want to pay $17 for parking on campus, only to get a $40 ticket for having your parking receipt improperly displayed? It may come as a shock to you, but the Auraria Higher Education Center doesn’t care how you feel about it. As a matter of fact, they’d rather you didn’t drive to school at all.

Anschutz Examined

Modeling the spread of an epidemic

Where do you send the firefighters during a wildfire? Where will the flame strike next? Doctors Loren Cobb and Jan Mandel, professors in the Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at UC Denver, are asking the same question about epidemics, albeit in a different manner.

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New methods make global family tree a possibility

Two doctors at Anschutz create a new way to look at the tree of life.

Your Health At Hand

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Transition into healthy living with Health Starts Here

Whole Foods begins its new program, aimed at helping you make smarter decisions about your diet.

Stay full and healthy for longer

It can be hard not to turn to the nearest Tivoli fast food when you’re in a rush; however, there are power food options on our campus that offer energy and good digestion, and keep you full for longer.

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