WHY NURSES WANT PhDs

In 2004, 170 nurses earned a PhD; in 2011, more than 7,000 nurses earned a PhD—an increase of more than 4,000 percent!

By 2014, a PhD will most likely be required in order to become a nurse practitioner.

Established in 1978, our nursing PhD program was one of the first in the western United States—and it continues to be one of the best.

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GOT ALTITUDE SICKNESS?

True or False: If you’re in good physical shape, you won’t get altitude sickness.

You could ask Robert Roach, PhD, for the answer. The current director of the University of Colorado Denver Altitude Research Center (ARC), Roach has studied altitude here for eight years, and has studied altitude impacts on humans for 33 years.

Recently, he and his fellow ARC researchers flew 140 human subjects from Dallas to Denver, bused them up to Breckenridge, Colo., and studied them as they ran and hiked in Summit County. Some experienced symptoms of altitude sickness, and some didn’t.

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LIFE THROUGH A LENS

Turn on the television and you might get hooked by a film about a man recreating Stonehenge in Nebraska—with old cars. Perhaps you can’t stop watching the video of geocachers looking for buried treasure around the world. Or maybe you find yourself captivated by a documentary that follows two women with lung cancer as they prepare to die.

In every case, you would be watching the work of College of Arts and Media (CAM) Associate Professor David Liban, MFA.

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