News & Features
Tom Cech weighs in on the Animas River contamination
August 10th 2015
Tom Cech, director of One World One Water Center MSU-Denver and author of Colorado Water Law for Non-Lawyers, has been a go-to expert for media covera
Lane by Lane: Moving Away from Automobile Dependence in the West
August 4th 2015
As a transportation planner, I work with a wide range of communities throughout the American West. Increasingly, the looming question for my clients i
Thiefing a Chance, by Rebecca Prentice, wins the 2015 Society for the Anthropology of Work Book Prize!
July 30th 2015
Press release from the Society for the Anthropology of Work Book Prize Committee, American Anthropological Association The book prize committee of t
The Strangely Nonpartisan Politics of Education
July 28th 2015
What should we make of the fact that a law as momentous as the Every Child Achieves Act just passed the Senate by an 81–17 margin?
What on Earth Has Happened to Freshman English?
July 21st 2015
If you haven't been paying much attention, you may have missed a quiet academic revolution in one of the most conservative of disciplines: English and
50th Anniversary Sale! Get 50% off any book...
July 16th 2015
2015 marks the 50th anniversary of the University Press of Colorado, and we're celebrating with a 50% off sale! Through the rest of this year, individ
“University presses exist to do what wouldn’t otherwise get done"
July 14th 2015
Listen to UPC director Darrin Pratt's interview on KGNU radio about our 50 years of publishing groundbreaking books and the future of academic publish
Out of Sync: Demographic and Curricular Shifts in Education
July 14th 2015
Much has been written and said about the increasing diversity of the United States in recent decades, with minorities expected to become the majority
The Verging Cities is a Top 9 Summer Read by Latino Authors
July 13th 2015
The Verging Cities, by Natalie Scenters-Zapico, has been selected by NBC News' Rigoberto González as one of 9 Great New Books by Latino Authors.
A Letter to Pratt in Praise of Books
June 30th 2015
Dear Darrin, I am writing in the evening light; the river birds have begun the last of their singing, sweet whistles, and rapid staccatos that are t
The Denver Artists Guild book release and exhibit
June 25th 2015
Works by the Denver Artists Guild's original 52 members will be exhibited at the Byers-Evans House Gallery, June 26–September 26, in conjunction with
Marta Effinger-Crichlow celebrated Juneteeth at the African Burial Ground National Monument in NYC...
June 24th 2015
Marta Effinger-Crichlow celebrated Juneteeth at the African Burial Ground National Monument in NYC with a standing-room-only talk on her book Staging
Academic Publishing: Notes from a Recovering Novelist
June 23rd 2015
When I decided to alter my life's course from that of a scrubbed and well-shaven Washington lobbyist in a three-piece suit and wingtips to that of a r
Precarious Labor in the Global Economy
June 16th 2015
In a recent Slate Podcast on Working, reporter Adam Davidson describes his predictions for what middle-class employment will look like in the years to
Marta Effinger Crichlow on CUNY Radio
June 10th 2015
Marta Effinger-Crichlow talks about her book, Staging Migrations Toward an American West: From Ida B. Wells to Rhodessa Jones, on CUNY Radio, listen h
Del Norte: Small Town Hospitality in the San Luis Valley
June 9th 2015
Is old-fashioned hospitality still alive? We are not talking about the “hospitality trade,” which thrives on the corners of every highway crossing. We
The Importance of Small Streams
June 2nd 2015
As we come out of an unusually wet late spring in northern Colorado, I am enjoying the sight of small streams appearing in normally dry gulches. My we
The Naturalist
May 22nd 2015
I recently had the chance to sit down with Dr. William A. Weber, retired University of Colorado botanist and author of five University Press of Co
In Good Company
May 12th 2015
Question: What do Subway, Air Canada, and Gold's Gym have in common with University Press of Colorado? Click here to find out!
Quicksilver Studies
May 5th 2015
The popular narrative of the American West is a story of gold rushes and silver booms and the growth of the pioneer mining town. Read More
UPC Turns 50
May 1st 2015
Originally published in the May 2015 issue of Choice When I reflect on university presses, my thoughts are currently pulled somewhat naturally towar
History via Harley
April 24th 2015
In a recent talk at a library in Longmont, Colorado, author James Whiteside recalled how a journey on his Harley Davidson to a family reunion in Briti
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