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Marks begins new leadership role with celebration
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A day after officially taking on her new position as vice president for health affairs and executive vice chancellor at the University of Colorado's Anschutz Medical Campus, Lilly Marks celebrated the career transition with colleagues and family during a reception at Building 500. Formerly the senior associate dean for finance and administration at the CU School of Medicine, Marks now oversees academic, clinical and research operations and focus on key strategic issues such as transportation, relationships with affiliate hospitals and development on and around the campus.
"I hope to be a connector here," said Marks, who was joined by family members, School of Medicine Dean Richard Krugman and dozens of well-wishers. "I hope I'm not being booted out of the family," she added, a line that got plenty of laughs. A CU alumna who has worked at the university since 1976, she offered this advice: "You have to be a survivor. You can't be a victim in life."
Barton named Mordecai Endowed Chair in Rural Health Nursing
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Amy Barton, RN, Ph.D., and professor and associate dean for clinical and community affairs at the University of Colorado College of Nursing at the Anschutz Medical Campus, has been appointed to the Daniel and Janet Mordecai Endowed Chair in Rural Health Nursing.
The endowed chair was funded by a $1.9 million gift from Janet Mordecai in 2007 that included four graduate student Rural Health Nursing Endowed Fellowships.
"This gift from the Daniel and Janet Mordecai Foundation will provide wonderful opportunities for the new chair to work with nursing educators, clinicians and rural health leaders in enhancing health services and strengthening the rural health work force for the people of Colorado," said Patricia Moritz, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, dean of the College of Nursing. "The selection of Dr. Barton is a wonderful choice to continue to expand the focus on rural health within the college."
Barton has worked extensively in sustaining nurse-managed clinics locally and nationally with a focus on the underserved. She also has provided faculty development workshops throughout rural and urban areas of Colorado to advance nursing education with an emphasis on patient care quality and safety, and she is a campus leader in expanding Inter-Professional Education among all of the health professions schools.
Barton's vision as the new Rural Health Nursing chair includes working with Colorado's regional Area Health Education Center (AHEC) directors as well as initiating a network with the Mordecai Rural Health Fellows to develop a plan for better access to health care and nursing education in rural Colorado.
"I am honored by this appointment," Barton said. "Nurses care for patients and their families every day across Colorado. I look forward to working with my colleagues at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and with other health care leaders to enhance the nursing work force."
Barton directs Sheridan Health Services, a nurse-managed clinic serving diverse, low-income clients. She serves as project director for Colorado Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN), a statewide initiative funded by the Colorado Trust; and she is the National Nursing Faculty Adviser for the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation/Institute for Healthcare Improvement Open School initiative: Retooling for Quality and Safety.
Donor Janet Mordecai, B.S. '65, commented on her funding of the rural health chair: "I am honored to have been given the privilege of endowing the University of Colorado College of Nursing with its first chair in rural health nursing. Since attending this college from 1960-65, I have been drawn to give back to an institution that afforded me a quality education and strong base for my career pathway. My early career was focused in Public Health Nursing where I saw the critical need for nurses to be a vital part of care delivery in rural areas. Working in the federally funded migrant labor camp in Fort Lupton opened my eyes to the special needs of rural Colorado. Now, some 45 years later, there is no longer a migrant labor camp in Fort Lupton, but there still remains a critical need for care in rural communities that are stretched to the limit in terms of being able to attract and retain qualified medical and nursing personnel."
Two at University Libraries honored for outstanding contributions
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The University of Colorado at Boulder University Libraries recently named two winners of annual awards.
Eugene Hayworth was awarded the CU-Boulder Libraries 2010 Ralph E. Ellsworth Award for Excellence in Librarianship. Established by the University Libraries in 1990 to honor the former library director, the Ellsworth Award recognizes a library faculty member for outstanding contributions to the library, the university and the library profession, and includes a $1,000 award.
Hayworth joined the Libraries' faculty in 2002 as assistant professor in the business library and was awarded tenure and appointed associate professor in 2009. Hayworth also was appointed faculty director of the William M. White Business Library in 2009.
He serves on numerous library committees and is an active member of the American Library Association. He has published and presented extensively in business librarianship and is a developer of the highly successful BELL (Business Ethics Links Library) database.
Hayworth's scholarship on Coleman Dowell includes the 2007 Dalkey Archive Press monograph, "Fever Vision." Hayworth is now teaching a business librarianship course at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science of Humboldt Universität as the recipient of a Fulbright Senior Lecturing/Research scholarship.
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Leanne Kunkle Walther of the Government Information Library on the Boulder campus was awarded the University Libraries 2010 Martha and Marie Campbell Staff Recognition Award. A $1,000 prize presented annually, it honors a library staff member who has made outstanding contributions to the libraries.
Walther was recognized for 19 years of exceptional reference work, her knowledge of databases, skill as an instructor and presenter, and processing of special project gifts. Formerly a staff member in the CU law library for 15 years, her skill with complex legal questions and persistence in finding answers were noted by nominators. The letters written in support of her were lavish in their praise: "thorough," "persistent," "completely dedicated," "collegial by nature," a "jewel in our collection" – even "our secret weapon."
Dropping names ...
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Karen Brown, financial assistant in the College of Education at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, recently was promoted to assistant dean for finance and administration at the College of Education. The change was announced by Peg Bacon, provost. Brown will report to David Fennel, interim dean of the College of Education. ... Daphne Greenwood, professor of economics at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs co-wrote "Local Economic Development in the 21st Century: Quality of Life and Sustainability" with Richard P.F. Holt of Southern Oregon University. The book, recently published by M.E. Sharpe, provides a comprehensive look at local economic development and public policy and draws extensively on case studies at state and local levels. The authors advocate for a new approach to economic development that incorporates quality of life and sustainability. ... Nikki McCaslin of the University of Colorado Denver has authored the book "Finding Our Place: 100 Memorable Adoptees, Fostered Persons and Orphanage Alumni" published by Greenwood Press. McCaslin is the Literature/Modern Languages bibliographer at the Auraria Library and supplies research and instructional assistance in the humanities. An adoptee and parent of two adopted children herself, McCaslin is active in adoption and orphanage issues, serving as a board member for Adoptees in Search, Colorado's Triad Connection. ... Michael Jenson, associate professor of architecture at the University of Colorado Denver, has been awarded first place in the 2009-10 European Association of Architectural Educators (EAAE) Prize competition sponsored by Montana. The prize will be awarded at the EAAE Meeting of Heads of Schools of Architecture on Sept. 6 the Mediterranean Architectural Centre in Hania, Crete, Greece. There also is a publication planned for the winning papers as well as those receiving honorable mention. The prize aims to stimulate original writing on the subject of architectural education in order to improve the quality of architectural teaching in Europe. Jenson's winning essay is titled, "Sustainability: Ethics or Technology?" ... Kevin J. Krizek, associate professor of planning and design at the University of Colorado Denver, director of the Active Communities / Transportation (ACT) Research Group and director of the Ph.D. program in design and planning, was invited to guest edit a special issue of Transportation, the pre-eminent scholarly journal addressing transportation planning-related issues. The special issue focuses on advancements in location choice models and Krizek (along with his international collaborator, Harry Timmermans) co-edited the articles appearing in the volume. Their overview piece, introducing the issue and its contents, is available here.
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