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Kay honored with annual Chase Faculty Community Service Award

Kay

Joseph Kay, M.D., assistant professor of medicine and pediatrics at the Anschutz Medical Campus, has been awarded the 2010-2011 Chase Faculty Community Service Award by CU President Bruce D. Benson. The honor comes with $10,000.

In support of the nomination, colleagues noted Kay's "tireless support of the medically underserved." He is credited as the driving force in establishing the Indigent Cardiology Clinic. He also recruited cardiologists for the Metro Community Provider Network.

"For Dr. Kay to spend much of his limited spare time to do the work that secured the indigent clinic signifies a deeply noble act," one nominator wrote. "He has continued to spend personal time both seeing patients in the clinic and improving on the already-high quality of care it renders. For example, he recently secured the donation of a cardiac ultrasound machine worth scores of thousands of dollars that is used exclusively by the clinic."

Kay has dual appointments in the University of Colorado School of Medicine and The Children's Hospital.

Stevenson named dean of CU-Boulder grad school

Stevenson

John A. Stevenson on Tuesday was appointed to the post of dean of the University of Colorado Boulder graduate school by Provost Russell A. Moore. Stevenson has held the position in an interim capacity since May 2009.

"John Stevenson has provided outstanding leadership as interim dean and we are looking forward to his building upon these achievements," Moore said. "He has led with vision, insight and collegiality, and no one knows the landscape for graduate education locally and nationally better than John.  I believe he will continue to be a dynamic resource for our graduate students and faculty as we move into a new era of global excellence in graduate education in a strong leadership position."

Stevenson said he was honored by the appointment and excited by the opportunities for continuing to transform graduate education at CU-Boulder on a global scale.

"Extending the world-class excellence of graduate education at CU-Boulder to Colorado, the nation and the world will be my top priority as dean," Stevenson said. "Perhaps the greatest global economic advantage our nation maintains is the outstanding quality of our graduate education, and this is particularly true of CU-Boulder. I am excited at our prospects and looking forward to continuing to work with our amazing faculty, staff and graduate students."

Stevenson was chair of the department of English from 1996 to 2004 and interim director of the program for writing and rhetoric from 2001 to 2002. He joined the graduate school as associate vice chancellor for graduate education in 2005, and served as chair of the Flagship 2030 Task Force on Graduate Education in 2008 before being appointed interim dean in May 2009.

He earned a bachelor's degree in English from Duke University in 1975 and a doctorate from the University of Virginia in 1983. He has been a CU-Boulder faculty member in the English department since 1982. He is a scholar of British literature of the 18th century who has presented his work both nationally and internationally many times, and is the author of two books and many articles. His 2005 book "The Real History of Tom Jones" won the Eugene Kayden Book Prize in 2007.

Assistant professor awarded grant to study school choice

Ely

Todd Ely, an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Denver's School of Public Affairs, recently was awarded an American Education Research Association/National Science Foundation grant to analyze a national longitudinal database to study parental school choice decision-making.

The project, titled "Parents, Families and School Choice," was awarded $17,267 to complete the research. Ely's co-principal investigator is Paul Teske, dean of the school and Distinguished Professor.

Ely received his Ph.D. from the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University and holds an M.P.A. from the University of Arizona. His research interests include the financing of state and local public services, education policy, and public and not-for-profit financial management. His current research examines the financing of school capital spending and alternative teacher compensation systems.

Clark named to post in community engagement

Clark

The University of Colorado Denver is adding emphasis to building relationships with business leaders and local communities with the addition of Leanna Clark as special assistant to the chancellor for community engagement.

"Clark's background as a successful businessperson and her contacts in the local community will help us further our goal of establishing the university and its two campuses as a go-to partner for business," said Chancellor Jerry Wartgow.

Clark brings nearly 25 years of business experience, including 12 years as a small business owner and in Denver's corporate, foundation and nonprofit communities. With a background in marketing, public relations and community outreach, she most recently directed communications and foundation activities for IMA Financial Group, one of the nation's leading risk-management companies.

She also founded and directed a major division of an international nonprofit organization that works in more than 120 countries nationwide. Previously, as principal and co-owner of marketing PR firm Schenkein, one of her primary roles was positioning senior-level leaders at client organizations in visible roles within in the community and creating partnerships to elevate their brands.

Boulder associate professor featured at free presentation at UCCS

Eberle

Jaelyn Eberle, associate professor of geological sciences and curator of vertebrate paleontology at the University of Colorado Boulder, will present "Long Hot Nights in the Eocene Arctic – What they tell us about global temperature change" at 6:30 p.m. April 12 at Clyde's, University Center first floor, on the Colorado Springs campus.

Eberle's presentation is part of the UCCS Café Scientifique and is based on her research of prehistoric mammals that might suggest how modern mammals will react to global warming. Eberle also will present prehistoric artifacts collected during her research.

Café Scientifique lectures are free and open to the public. Funding for Café Scientifique is provided by the UCCS Auxiliary Services

Dropping names ...

Soifer

Foss

Alex Soifer, professor of interdepartmental studies at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, presented "A Proof from the Book: A Lower Bound of the Polychromatic Number of the Plane" at the 42nd Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, on March 10. ... An article by Maria Araceli Ruiz-Primo, professor at the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Colorado Denver, has been published in the March edition of Science magazine. The article is titled "Impact of Undergraduate Science Course Innovations on Learning." ... Maria Elena Buszek of the College of Arts and Media at the University of Colorado Denver, has been chosen chair of the College Art Association Committee on Women in the Arts. The committee promotes the scholarly study and recognition of contributions by women to the visual arts, advocates feminist scholarship and activism in art, develops partnerships with organizations with compatible missions, monitors the status of women in the visual-arts professions and researches and provides historic and current resources on feminist issues. ... An abstract by Neera Tewari-Singh, a research associate at the department of pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Colorado Denver, recently was selected to receive the Dermal Toxicology Specialty Section Stratacor Award at the Society of Toxicology Meeting on March 6-10 in Washington, D.C. The abstract is titled "Therapeutic efficacy of catalytic antioxidant AEOL 10150 in attenuating sulfur mustard analog 2-chloroethyl ethyl sulfide induced skin injury." ... Susan Connors, School of Education and Human Development Evaluation Center at the University of Colorado Denver, has had a joint-article published with J.K. Magilvy – "Assessing vital signs: Applying two participatory evaluation frameworks to the evaluation of a college of nursing" in Evaluation and Program Planning, 34, 79-86. ... Sonja Foss, professor of communication in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Colorado Denver, is participating in a roundtable at the Gender Studies Symposium in Portland, Ore., titled "Integrating Multiplicity into the Teaching of Gender." ... Brian Gerber, associate professor in the University of Colorado Denver's School of Public Affairs, has been chosen to be a member of the Board of Environmental Health of Denver's Department of Environment Health. "(Dr. Gerber) continues the long and rich connection the board and our department has with the University of Colorado Denver," said Nancy Severson, manager of the Department of Environmental Health. Gerber also serves as executive director of the Buechner Institute for Governance.

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