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Voss

Former astronaut and University of Colorado at Boulder alumnus Jim Voss has joined the campus's aerospace engineering sciences department. Voss holds a master's degree in aerospace engineering from CU-Boulder as well as an honorary doctorate from the university. Voss, who holds the Roubos Endowed Chair in Engineering, also will serve as an ambassador for the college and campus.

Voss, hired as a full-time scholar in residence, is one of three astronauts affiliated as faculty at CU-Boulder. He joins former astronaut Joe Tanner in the aerospace engineering sciences department; NASA's John Grunsfeld has a future appointment as adjoint professor in the astrophysical and planetary sciences department.

Voss said his assignment includes teaching classes and mentoring graduate student projects in the area of human space flight and helping to develop the department's graduate program in bioastronautics, along with Tanner, associate professor David Klaus and research professor Louis Stodieck. Voss will develop and teach an undergraduate course, "Introduction to Human Space Flight," which will be open to engineers and nonengineers.

During his NASA career, Voss spent 202 days in space, participating in five spaceflights and four spacewalks. A U. S. Army flight test engineer, he retired a colonel in 2003. He also served as a professor and associate dean of engineering at Auburn University.

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McCoy

University of Colorado School of Medicine postdoctoral fellow Erica McCoy received a 2009-10 fellowship in science and technology policy from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). McCoy will work with the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service as an energy, environment, agriculture and natural resources fellow. Before her appointment, McCoy was a postdoctoral fellow in obstetrics and gynecology in the School of Medicine.

The yearlong fellowship, funded by science societies and government agencies, teaches fellows about science policy while they lend their expertise to the government. This year's class of fellows is the largest in the program's 36-year history, with nearly 200 scientists participating.

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Lard

System administration appoints IT security principal

Keith Lard was named IT security principal for University of Colorado system administration. His duties will include developing, implementing, managing and maintaining a comprehensive information security program for system administration. Lard will also serve as an internal information security consultant to the university and will work with campus IT security personnel and Bill Walker, chief information security officer, to implement and maintain the program.

Based at UIS in Boulder, Lard also will be the main point of contact for system employees with security-related questions or concerns. A CU alumnus, Lard has worked at UIS for two years and has a decade of experience in the IT security industry.

UC Denver names director of student life

Khushnur Dadabohy, Ph.D., was appointed director of student life at the University of Colorado Denver. She will oversee daily functions of the office of student life at the Auraria Campus, including student activities, events, clubs and Student Government Association leadership. Other responsibilities include providing office leadership for student engagement in activities such as Welcome Week, convocation and the Women's Leadership Conference.