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Diabetes foundation honors Eisenbarth
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George Eisenbarth, M.D., Ph.D., executive director of the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes and professor of pediatrics, medicine and immunology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, received the Commitment to the Dream Award on May 8 at the 11th annual Dream Gala of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF).
A graduate of Columbia University, Eisenbarth received his M.D. and Ph.D. from Duke University Medical School. At the Joslin Diabetes Center, where he founded the immunology section, Eisenbarth and his colleagues discovered that type 1 diabetes was a chronic autoimmune disease with multiple stages and that diabetes could be predicted.
Eisenbarth continues his role as an actively practicing clinician treating patients with multiple autoimmune diseases. A founding member and past president of the Clinical Immunology Society, he currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal Diabetes and the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology Metabolism. He also serves on the steering committees of TrialNet, TEDDY and the Immune Tolerance Network and is a founding member of the Brehm Coalition.
"JDRF gave me my first grant, a career development award, which started me on a lifetime quest," Eisenbarth said. "We can now predict diabetes in man and prevent it in animal models. Trials of prevention in man are currently in progress. For all the families helping in our research, I am very optimistic that therapy will be revolutionized in this decade and safe prevention of diabetes may shortly follow."
This year's Dream Gala at INVESCO Field at Mile High raised $550,000 dollars for research to find a cure for type 1 diabetes.
Toomre honored with largest CU-Boulder faculty award
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Juri Toomre, a professor of astrophysical and planetary sciences and a fellow of JILA at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has been selected to receive the Hazel Barnes Prize, the highest faculty recognition for teaching and research awarded by the university.
Toomre will receive an engraved university medal and a $20,000 cash award, the largest single faculty award funded by CU-Boulder. He was recognized at spring commencement on May 7 and will be honored at a reception in the fall.
The prize recognizes Toomre's influential research in solar physics, astrophysical fluid dynamics, supercomputing simulations and helioseismology – the study of solar oscillations to learn more about the sun's interior structure – along with his exceptional teaching record during nearly 40 years at CU-Boulder.
"The Hazel Barnes Prize honors the integration of teaching and research and Professor Toomre certainly embodies the highest of standards evidenced by his research productivity and teaching awards bestowed upon him by students," said CU-Boulder Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano. "Professor Toomre's service to the university in the name of education has also been unselfish. I can't think of a more deserving recipient for our highest faculty award."
Toomre's prior teaching awards include the title of Professor of Distinction given by the CU-Boulder College of Arts and Sciences in 2009. In 1999, students selected Toomre for the Teaching Recognition Award sponsored by the Student Organization for Alumni Relations. CU-Boulder's Council on Research and Creative Work named him a Distinguished Research Lecturer in 1995.
Toomre's teaching ranges from large undergraduate astronomy courses to specialized graduate courses in astrophysical and planetary sciences, and he has mentored at least 40 graduate students and postdoctoral researchers.
He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his doctoral degree in applied mathematics as a Marshall Scholar at Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. He came to CU-Boulder in 1971.
The Hazel Barnes Prize was established in 1991 to recognize the enriching relationship between teaching and research. The prize was named in honor of CU-Boulder philosophy Professor Emerita Hazel Barnes, who taught at CU-Boulder from 1943 to 1986 and is noted for her interpretations of the works of French philosopher Jean Paul Sartre. Barnes died in 2008 at the age of 92.
Beth-El dean emeriti recognized with Nightingale award
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Carole Schoffstall, dean emerita, Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, is a recipient of the prestigious Nightingale Award for Human Caring for 2010.
The Nightingale Award honors outstanding Colorado registered nurses whose contributions to the profession of nursing reflect the philosophy and passion of Florence Nightingale, the 19th-century nursing pioneer who set the standard for the nursing profession. Schoffstall was honored May 1 at an awards ceremony in Denver.
"I am very honored and humbled to receive this award," she said. "Perhaps because it provides external validation that my career footsteps may have followed in the footsteps of Florence Nightingale in some small way. This nursing profession has been a journey of profound meaning for me with a unique opportunity to advocate for quality health care in a multitude of contexts."
Her accomplishments include orchestrating the successful merger of the Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences with UCCS, developing and expanding the number of academic programs offered by the college, bringing the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner program to Beth-El and being involved with other projects and programs to promote violence prevention. She worked with community agencies to develop collaborative models of primary care delivery and made extensive fundraising efforts on behalf of the college.
"Although the tapestry of my life is still being woven, and has many components of the unknown, I hope that these post-retirement years will provide opportunity to serve my profession and my community in ways that may not have been possible when time was such a critical resource," Schoffstall said.
The University of Colorado founded the Nightingale Awards in 1985. Each year between 200 and 300 nurses are nominated from across Colorado but only 15 are selected as finalists. From among those 15, six are selected as recipients.
UCCS Staff Council leaders elected
New members of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Staff Council executive board have been elected.
Co-presidents-elect for the 2009-2010 term are Megan Broeren, program assistant, student success, and Nikki Coahran, administrative assistant, public safety.
Michelle Sorensen, program assistant, disabilities services and university testing, and Jennifer O'Connell, administrative assistant, student health center are the new co-presidents-elect.
Rachel Gibson, general professional, admissions counseling and student recruitment, was elected executive secretary.
Brad Bailey, accountant, resource management, was elected treasurer.
"Staff Council will continue its mission to foster communication between all staff members and administration about relevant issues, provide opportunities for service and enrichment, and help cultivate a positive and collaborative work environment," Broeren said.
"This past year has been very enlightening," Coahran said. "My hopes for next year are simply to provide the campus with the same level of professionalism and support the executive board has been and is currently exhibiting."
Irish music research leads to Fulbright ambassadorship
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Judith Coe recently was appointed a Fulbright ambassador.
The associate professor and chair of music and entertainment industry studies in the College of Arts and Media at the University of Colorado Denver, her appointment came as a result of her research on Irish traditional music and alternative voices. Her work was based in the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University in Limerick, in County Clare, Ireland.
"I traveled to Washington, D.C., in February for training and to meet the other Fulbright ambassadors – an amazing group of people with incredible stories about their Fulbright experiences across the world – during the Fulbright year in their host country and beyond," Coe said. "My year in Ireland was so wonderful and completely transformative."
The Fulbright ambassador program identifies, trains and engages a select group of Fulbright scholar alumni to serve as representatives for the Fulbright program at campus workshops and academic conferences across the United States. Coe will conduct four formal presentations at conferences and/or on campuses in the next two years.
Dropping names ...
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Kevin Rens, professor of civil engineering at the University of Colorado Denver College of Engineering and Applied Science (COE), recently met with professors and engineers at Tongji University in Shanghai, China, and gave several talks as well as an invited presentation "Inspection and Assessment of Denver, Colorado Infrastructure: From Streets to Bridges." ... University of Colorado Denver civil engineering assistant professor Wesley Marshall co-authored "Street network types and road safety: A study of 24 California cities" to be published in Urban Design International. See the abstract online. ... Alana McCoy becomes the first Urban Teacher Ed Recruitment director at the School of Education and Human Development (SEHD) at the University of Colorado Denver. A Denver native and graduate of Westminster High School and Regis University, McCoy comes from Regis' Ignatian Collaborative for Service and Justice, where she connected students to community organizations to promote service, learning, community building and activism. ... Marilyn Krajicek, professor at the University of Colorado Denver's College of Nursing and director of the National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education, and Barbara Hamilton, assistant director, recently received the 2009 Effective Practice Award from the American Public Health Association (APHA) Maternal and Child Health Section at the Martha May Eliot Luncheon Awards during APHA's annual conference in Philadelphia. Krajicek and Hamilton accepted the award on behalf of their team at the National Center. The center – the first agency to receive the newly established award – was described as consistently having a measurable outcome in the improvement of child health and developing and publishing guidelines for out-of-home child care.
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