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Parker chosen vice chancellor for administration and finance
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University of Colorado Denver leadership announced that Jeff Parker has officially accepted the job as vice chancellor for administration and finance at the University of Colorado Denver. The Board of Regents appointed Parker as interim vice chancellor last November.
In his post, Parker serves as the university's chief financial officer. The office oversees university functions including budget and finance, facilities management, information technology, human resources and campus police.
Parker began his career with CU in 1999 as controller for the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. In 2002, he was promoted to assistant vice chancellor for finance and controller. In 2005, after the consolidation of the Health Sciences Center with the University of Colorado Denver campus, he was promoted to associate vice chancellor of finance and administration. Parker is a Certified Public Accountant, and received his master's degree in finance from UC Denver in May 2010.
Sture named Distinguished Member of national society
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Stein Sture, vice chancellor for research and dean of the graduate school at the University of Colorado at Boulder, recently was named a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the group's highest accolade.
Distinguished membership recognizes eminence in a branch of engineering and is currently composed of only 192 of the Society's 144,000 members worldwide. Sture will be formally inducted, in honor of his contributions to geo-technical engineering, this week at the Celebration of Leaders luncheon during ASCE's 140th Annual Civil Engineering Conference in Las Vegas.
ASCE is recognizing Sture for his eminence in the fields of fracture mechanics, constitutive modeling of cementitious composites and geo-mechanics, and nonlinear analysis and computational techniques related to granular materials and soil-structure interaction, as well as for his exemplary career as an educator.
His academic career spans nearly 35 years, beginning at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. In 1980, Sture joined the faculty at CU-Boulder. During his 30 years at the university, Sture also has been a visiting professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and at the University of Oxford in England, where he was a Jenkin Fellow in Engineering Sciences. Sture holds the Huber and Helen Croft Endowed Professorship in the department of civil, environmental and architectural engineering in the College of Engineering and Applied Science.
Sture is an active member of the civil engineering community. He has served ASCE in numerous capacities, including as president of the Colorado section, director of District 16 and chair of the ASCE Region 7 Formation Team. He is currently a governor of the Engineering Mechanics Institute and a member of the ASCE Technical Region Board of Governors.
A prolific writer, Sture has authored or co-authored more than 400 papers and research reports. He also has served as a consultant for nearly 30 public and private organizations including Lockheed Martin, NASA, Shell, the Federal Aviation Administration and the United Nations Development Program.
Sture has bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in civil engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He also has a degree in engineering mechanics from the Schous Institute of Technology in Oslo.
National Center for Media Forensics has new director
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Catalin Grigoras, Ph.D., recently was hired as director of the National Center for Media Forensics (NCMF) at the College of Arts and Media at the University of Colorado Denver. Grigoras' duties include coordinating the center's education and scientific projects.
Grigoras' research encompasses digital signal processing in forensic multimedia, including digital recording authentication, audio/image analysis, enhancement, and speaker recognition. His research into digital signal processing has resulted in advanced methods to authenticate digital audio/video recordings and semiautomatic systems for forensic speaker recognition.
"This position allows me to continue my research and teaching activities, and it is also a new challenge for me," said Grigoras. "I recognize that I'm lucky to be on the same team with my new colleagues, and I'm positive that together with them and our students we can continue the work of the former director, Richard Sanders, and push the limits of scientific knowledge as far as it is possible."
Prior to UC Denver, Grigoras taught forensics as assistant professor with the National Institute of Magistracy in Romania. Grigoras was chairman of the European Network of Forensic Science Institutes – Forensic Speech and Audio Analysis Working Group between 2007 and 2009. He is a member of the Audio Engineering Society Subcommittee on Forensic Audio and the International Association of Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics. He has published numerous forensic audio/video articles and is a co-author of "Best Practice Guidelines for ENF Analysis in Forensic Authentication of Digital Evidence" (2009).
In addition to providing a master's of science emphasis in media forensics, the National Center for Media Forensics provides much-needed training opportunities for law enforcement through innovative credit-bearing workshops dealing with forensic media analysis. Through this activity, the NCMF and UC Denver cultivate strong, mutually beneficial partnerships that engage local, federal and global law enforcement communities.
Boulder professor's writing examines 'weatherquakes'
Math may not be the first thing that comes to mind when considering the environment, but it plays an important role. It was a mathematician, Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), who coined the term "greenhouse effect."
Three articles – including one by University of Colorado at Boulder professor Martin E. Walter – in the November issue of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society examine ways in which mathematics can contribute to understanding environmental and ecological issues.
In the article, "Earthquakes and Weatherquakes: Mathematics and Climate Change," Walter uses math to show that global warming could lead to more "intense" weather events.
Earthquake data shows that over time, the sum of the "intensity" of all earthquakes of a given Richter scale magnitude is the same for any point on the scale.
For example the total intensity of the 100,000 magnitude-3 quakes that occur over the course of a year is the same as the intensity of a single magnitude-8 trembler. Walter uses the example of earthquakes to formulate a hypothesis about "weatherquakes" – extreme weather events such as hurricanes and tornadoes. As in the case of earthquakes, he suggests, there is no preferred size or scale for the intensity of weatherquakes. That is, weatherquake phenomena also follow a power law.
Taking the mathematics a few steps further, Walter examines what would happen to the distribution of extreme weather events if the global climate heated up. The finding is worrisome: As temperatures rise, the most intense weatherquakes would increase in number.
Three Boulder scientists honored for research
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Several scientists, including three connected with the University of Colorado at Boulder, have won the 2010 Governor's Award for High-Impact Research.
The researchers and their labs will be recognized at a reception and dinner on Monday, Oct. 25, at UCAR Center Green campus in Boulder.
Satyen Deb, Ph.D., and Dane Gillaspie, Ph.D., of the National Renewable Energy Lab Electricity and Building Systems Unit will receive the Energy Efficiency award for the discovery and development of Electrochromatic tintable windows to reduce energy consumption in buildings.
John Hall, Ph.D., a Nobel Prize laureate and member of JILA (Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics), will receive the Foundational Technology award for exploration of the nature of the laser light, leading to the development of the laser as a tool for ultra-precise measurements, guiding its commercialization and nurturing of the phototonics industry.
Colorado Springs celebrates research
Six University of Colorado at Colorado Springs faculty members were recognized Oct. 14 for their sponsored research productivity during a Celebration of Research program sponsored by the Office of Sponsored Research.
Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak and Provost Peg Bacon joined with Michael Larson, associate vice chancellor for research and innovation and El Pomar Endowed Chair of Innovation and Engineering, to compliment all faculty members involved in research and to specifically highlight the work of six individuals.
Recognized for generating $1 million in sponsored research funding in their careers were:
- Gregory Plett, associate professor, engineering
- Sarah Qualls, Kraemer Family Professor of Aging, psychology, and director of the Gerontology Center
- Charles "Chip" Benight, professor, psychology, and director of the Trauma, Health and Hazards Center
Also recognized were three faculty members whose sponsored research efforts have generated more than $5 million in funding in their careers. They were:
- Robert Camley, professor, physics
- Zbigniew Celinski, professor, physics
- Terrance Boult, El Pomar Chair of Innovation and Security, engineering
Dropping names ...
David A. Kumpe, M.D., and professor of radiology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, has been honored internationally for his contributions to interventional radiology. He was awarded the International Cooperation Award by the Chinese Society of Interventional Radiology for his efforts to train physicians there. ... Edie Greene, professor of psychology at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, recently was appointed a visiting scholar at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. Currently on sabbatical from UCCS, she will collaborate with CUNY faculty on research in psychology and law and will participate in a Cornell University Law School conference on numerical judgments in the law. ... Nancy F. Krebs, M.D., MS, FAAP has been chosen to receive the American Academy of Pediatrics' 2010 Samuel J. Fomon Nutrition Award. The award, which will be presented Nov. 13, recognizes outstanding achievement in research relating to nutrition of infants and children that has been completed and published. Krebs, a professor of pediatrics and medical director of Clinical Nutrition Services at The Children's Hospital, uses evidence-based approaches to
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| Diann Eason (center) with husband Harold (right) and HR Vice President Darryl Varnado. |
solving pediatric nutritional problems, domestically and internationally, particularly in developing counties. ... Staff gathered on the sixth floor of the Leprino Building at the University of Colorado Hospital last month to bid goodbye to Diann Eason, the hospital's longtime manager of employee health and wellness. Eason, a nurse with a special interest in occupational health, began at the hospital in June 2001. Among other accomplishments, she started the Critical Incident Stress Debriefing team, a group of hospital staff available to help colleagues deal with difficult emotional issues related to health care. ... University of Colorado Hospital's Human Resources Director Ellen Rehmar is a recipient of the 2010 Outstanding Chapter Office Award from the American Society for Healthcare Human Resources Administration (ASHHRA). The award was presented at ASHHRA's 46th annual Conference and Exposition in Tampa, Fla., on Sept. 26. Rehmar and other award recipients also will be recognized in ASHHRA's quarterly magazine HR Pulse.
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