Economics professor Zach Schaller awarded CLA’s first-ever research grant from Russell Sage Foundation

Assistant professor of Economics Zachary Schaller studies labor unions in the US. In early 2024, Schaller received a $50,000 grant from the Russell Sage Foundation, the first grant ever awarded to a CLA faculty member from this prestigious national funder and only the second for CSU overall.

Denver’s experiment in providing a soft landing for newly arrived migrants and asylum-seekers isn’t cheap – but doing nothing might cost more

The burden of supporting asylum-seekers with food and housing often falls to cities, creating severe budget crunches. But Denver is piloting a new approach designed to integrate immigrants into the workforce faster.

SoGES research addresses ‘saving bees,’ human migration and missing costs of climate change

Redirecting misplaced enthusiasm to “save the honeybees,” understanding migration during humanitarian crises such as in Gaza, and accounting for the missing costs of climate change are the topics which won funding from CSU’s School of Global Environmental Sustainability.