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Dance professor honored with diversity awards
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Onye Ozuzu, University of Colorado at Boulder professor of theater and dance, received the CACMA Diversity Service Award during the recent Excellence and Equity Lunch.
The Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Minority Affairs honors those who help create a diverse and supportive learning, working and living environment, and who are committed to promoting an understanding of multicultural issues. Ozuzu's Innovative Seed Grant Program application, "African Dance in America: The Archival Project," was reviewed and has been recommended for funding.
Ozuzu also is a faculty recipient of the 2009-2010 President's Diversity Award. She will join CU President Bruce D. Benson as he recognizes her and the other award recipients at a reception at the president's office on Thursday, May 6.
Larry Bell and Kim Kreutzer of the Office of International Education represent the academic/administrative unit recipient of the 2009-2010 President's Diversity Award. They are being honored in part for an initiative to bring students and faculty together. They also will be recognized on Thursday. Each Diversity Award recipient will also receive an award of $1,000.
Financial manager named UCCS Employee of the Quarter
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| Elyse Dunckley, right, receives her award from Shannon Cable, general professional in the Office of Financial Aid and Student Employment and co-president of the Employee of the Quarter committee. |
Elyse Dunckley, financial manager for the National Institute of Science, Space and Security Centers (NISSSC) at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, was named Employee of the Quarter.
Confidently managing all the paperwork for multimillion-dollar grants and making it look easy are among the skills Dunckley demonstrates daily. Sharing her expertise and ideas with others makes her invaluable, according to Jenenne Nelson, dean of the Graduate School and professor at Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences.
Dunckley coordinates expenditures and budgets of the various centers under NISSSC to ensure compliance with funding requirements, along with processing expenditures and human resources paperwork. These duties are the mainstay of the financial support she provides to the NISSSC Air Force Office of Scientific Research grant.
On top of the responsibilities specific to her position, Dunckley serves as a resource to other sponsored program administrators on campus. She shares the processes she put in place to enhance tracking, ensure financial compliance and to document expenditures.
"Elyse goes 'above and beyond' on a daily basis," said Nelson, who nominated Dunckley with high praise. "She continues to challenge herself to grow professionally, using daily challenges as an opportunity to learn a new aspect of sponsored programs or university administration."
School of Medicine faculty members awarded grants
Numerous University of Colorado Denver's School of Medicine faculty members have been awarded innovation grants as principal investigators:
- Stephanie Chu, department of family medicine, "Knowledge and Clinical Assessment Tools for Musculoskeletal Medicine Education in Family Medicine Residents"
- Kristina Tocce, senior instructor, department of obstetrics and gynecology, "Design and Implementation of Simulated Vaginal Delivery in the Third-Year Medical Student Women's Care Block"
- Rachel Swigris, assistant professor, department of medicine, "A Mindfulness Curriculum to Promote Wellness and Reduce Burnout in Internal Medicine Interns"
- Rebecca Maldonado, assistant professor, physician assistant program, "Validating the Use of Multimedia Clinical Case Simulation Software on Teaching and Assessing Clinical Reasoning in Physician Assistant Students"
- Chad Stickrath and Melver Anderson, department of medicine, "Characteristics of Attending Rounds in Internal Medicine, A Multisite Study"
Dropping names ...
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Thomas E. Johnson, professor of molecular behavioral genetics at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has received the Denham Harman Research Award for the Lifetime Achievement in Research from the American Aging Association (AGE). The award will be presented at the 39th Annual AGE meeting in Portland on June 7. Established in 1978, the award is named in honor of Dr. Denham Harman, co-founder of AGE, and honors a scholar who has made significant contributions to biomedical aging research. ... Marco Tizzano, postdoctoral fellow at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, received a Polak Young Investigator Award at the annual meeting of the Association for Chemoreception Sciences. The annual awards recognize innovative research by young investigators. ... Bruce Goldstein, associate professor of planning and design, College of Architecture and Planning and the University of Colorado Denver, is the lead author of "Expanding the Scope and Impact of Collaborative Planning: Combining Multi-stakeholder Collaboration and Communities of Practice in a Learning Network" in the Journal of the American Planning Association. This work and related publications were supported by $266,000 in awards from the USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station and the Nature Conservancy. ... Matt Jelacic, assistant professor of architecture and adjunct professor in the Mortenson Center in Engineering for Developing Communities at the University of Colorado at Boulder, is part of a CU team on the project "Haiti: From Crisis to Development" under the aegis of the Mortenson Center. Earlier this month, he co-hosted a conference, "Lives in Limbo: Re-Imagining Structures and Standards in Refugee Camps," at the Rockefeller Foundation headquarters in New York. Jelacic also has received a $30,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to host a conference on earthen construction at the College of Engineering at CU-Boulder in the fall. ... Among the honorees from the University of Colorado School of Medicine at the Chancellor's Diversity Recognition and award luncheon this month were: Fayette Augillard, Public Health program coordinator, for outstanding staff; and Angela Sauaia, M.D., Ph.D., who works on several community diversity and health care disparity initiatives, for outstanding faculty.
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