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President's Teaching and Learning Collaborative hosts poster session
The President's Teaching and Learning Collaborative hosted its first-ever poster session on Monday, May 16, on the Anschutz Medical Campus. Directors Mary Ann Shea and Clayton Lewis welcomed the following faculty researchers with presentations: Penny Axelrad, Lynne Bemis, Peter Ellingson, Jeff Gemmell, Diane Martichuski, Kathleen McCartney, Lupita Montoya, Peter Schneider and Mandi Sinclair. The collaborative promotes the practice of inquiry in teaching and measuring student learning known nationally as the scholarship of teaching and learning.
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Boulder campus and leadership honored for community sustainability
The University of Colorado Boulder recently was recognized by the Boulder Chamber with a Community Sustainability Leader award. The award honors an organization that balances economic success, commitment to social equity and concern for environmental footprint. Accepting the award in the photo at left are, from left, Professor Jim White, director of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research; Professor Konrad Steffen, director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences; Frank Bruno, CU-Boulder vice chancellor for administration; Mitch Buthod, student; Moe Tabrizi, director of campus sustainability; and Philip Sneed, director of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. For more on this and other awards given by the Boulder Chamber, click here.
Nurses honored with prestigious awards
Mary Krugman and Tanya Tanner joined an elite group of nurses as they received the prestigious Nightingale Award for Excellence at the Colorado Nurses Foundation's annual awards event May 14.
The awards continue a 25-year tradition of recognizing excellence in professional nursing. The 2011 awards were designed to highlight nurses whose actions and outcomes exemplified the spirit of a citizen of the profession through either leadership, advocacy or innovation.
Krugman, director of professional resources at the University of Colorado Hospital, received the award in the category of "Leadership in Administrator, Educator, Researcher or Nontraditional Roles: Outstanding nurses who motivated others to work toward a common goal."
Krugman was a key leader in developing the University Health System Consortium/American Association of Colleges of Nursing Post-Baccalaureate Nurse Residency Program, now in 64 sites nationwide. She also served on the Collegiate Commission on Nursing Education, writing national residency program accreditation standards, resulting in the University of Colorado Hospital's program becoming the first in the nation to receive national accreditation, with the outcome of these initiatives having a positive impact on professional nurse entry into practice and retention across the country.
Tanner, a certified nurse midwife at Denver Health Medical Center and Medical Center of Aurora and a Ph.D. student at the University of Colorado College of Nursing, won the award in the category of "Advocacy in Clinical Practice: Outstanding nurses who advanced a cause or a purpose."
Tanner has advocated for improved healthcare for women through her research endeavors. She is researching indicators of self-competency for normal birth with the objective of reducing C-section rates and also developing a "Normal Birth" position statement that will be presented at the 2011 International Confederation of Mid-Wives meeting in South Africa.
A total of 266 nurses from across the state were nominated in one of two practice categories: nurses in clinical practice and nurse administrators, educators, researchers, or those in nontraditional roles. Nominators were asked to describe how their nominee advanced the profession of nursing, improved quality and access to care, or positively impacted their community through leadership, advocacy or innovation. Some 43 Luminaries were selected by either the Area Higher Education Centers (AHEC) or the Regional Nightingale Committees and forwarded to the State Selection Committee, where six of the Luminary Award recipients, one from each category and one from each area of recognition, were selected to receive the traditional Nightingale Award.
Others with CU ties who were finalists for the awards were:
Jamie Nordhagen, charge nurse, Oncology Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, University of Colorado Hospital, in the "Leadership in Clinical Practice" category; Suzy Evans, orthopedic spine nurse/level IV staff nurse, The Children's Hospital in Denver, in the "Advocacy in Clinical Practice" category; Cameron Boyle, clinical nurse, Trauma Burn Unit, University of Colorado Hospital, in the "Innovation in Clinical Practice" category; Jenenne P. Nelson, professor of nursing at Beth-El College and Health Sciences and dean of the University of Colorado Colorado Springs Graduate School, in the "Leadership in Administrator, Educator, Researcher or Nontraditional Roles" category; and Teresa Sakraida, nurse scientist, University of Colorado College of Nursing, and Andrea Le Claire, program director, department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, The Children's Hospital, both in the "Innovation in Administrator, Educator, Researcher or Nontraditional Roles" category.
The Colorado Nurses Foundation (CNF) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving health care and nursing practice in Colorado.
Researcher awarded grant to study preeclampsia
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Mahua Choudhury, a University of Colorado School of Medicine researcher, has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to study the cause of preeclampsia in pregnant women.
"I feel honored to have been selected for this prestigious award," said Choudhury, who specializes in neonatology at the school's department of pediatrics. "Childbirth is a wonderful thing but when a mother and child die, it's a double tragedy. So if I can contribute in any way to preventing this, I would be very satisfied."
The Grand Challenges Explorations (GCE) awards fund scientists and researchers worldwide to explore ideas that can solve persistent global health and development challenges.
Choudhury's project, titled "A Sensitive Epigenic Tool for Prediction of Preeclampsia," is one of 88 GCE grants recently announced by the foundation. She was one of a 2,500 applicants from 100 countries.
"These grants are meant to spur on new discoveries that could ultimately save millions of lives," said Chris Wilson, director of Global Health Discovery at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
To receive funding, Choudhury and other winners demonstrated an idea in one of five critical global heath and development areas: polio eradication, HIV, sanitation and family health technologies, and mobile health.
Choudhury focused on preeclampsia because of its widespread occurrence and the fact that it kills more than 75,000 women and babies every year. Women with the condition develop high blood pressure and protein in their urine. Choudhury said 4 percent to 8 percent of pregnant women in developed countries are affected by it along with up to 20 percent in developing nations.
"It is a condition with many facets but no single factor is found in all patients," she said. "That indicates that there is true causation still out there, a central unifying factor. And I am hoping we can find it."
UCCS announces search committee members for CLAS dean
A 15-member committee will begin its search this week for a new dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs.
Provost Peg Bacon announced the committee members, who will begin the process of selecting a replacement for Tom Christensen, dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences since 2005. Christensen announced in March his plan to return to teaching and research as a professor in the department of physics and energy science.
The search committee members are: Teri Switzer, dean, Kraemer Family Library, chair; David Anderson, associate professor, department of chemistry and biochemistry; Teresa Meadows, associate professor, department of languages and cultures; Mary Ann Cutter, professor, department of philosophy; Tom Wynn, professor, department of anthropology; Susan Taylor, associate professor, department of English; Gene Abrams, professor, department of mathematics; Tolya Pinchuk, assistant professor, department of physics and energy science; David Havlick, assistant professor, geography and environmental studies; Janice Gould, assistant professor, department of women's and ethnic studies; Wendy Haggren, instructor, department of biology; Marguerite Cantu, senior instructor, department of communication; Sheryl Botts, program assistant, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; Jane Muller, program assistant, department of women's and ethnic studies; Sharon Berthrong, a Colorado Springs community activist; and Jennifer Hane, director, alumni relations.
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School of Medicine announces new members of Academy of Medical Educators
The University of Colorado School of Medicine has announced new members of the Academy of Medical Educators. The academy provides a home base for teachers and a visible mechanism to support and enhance all educational programs and teachers at the school. The primary goal is to create an environment that promotes and rewards teaching excellence and enhances the education of students, residents, fellows, faculty and community. Selection is through a rigorous internal and external peer review process and signifies outstanding accomplishment in teaching and medical education.
The doctors who are the Spring 2011 new members are: Mona Abaza, otolaryngology; Meredith Alston, obstetrics and gynecology; Mel Anderson, general internal medicine; Lisa Corbin, internal and integrative medicine; Mark Deutchman, family medicine; Lorraine Dugoff,obstetrics and gynecology; Rohit Katial, allergy/immunology; Paritosh Kaul, adolescent medicine, pediatrics; John Kendall, emergency medicine; Robert Low, pathology; Dianna Quan, neurology; Mike Vasil, microbiology; and Kent Voorhees,family medicine.
Boulder Faculty Assembly elects new officers
Faculty members elected to officer and at-large positions on the Boulder Faculty Assembly are:
chair, Jerry Peterson, physics; vice chair, Bill Emery, aerospace engineering; secretary, Catherine Kunce, program for writing and rhetoric; at-large executive committee representatives, Margaret LeCompte, education and Peggy Jobe, libraries.
For contact information, meeting schedules and meeting minutes, visit http://www.Colorado.edu/FacultyGovernance.
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Ernestine Kotthoff-Burrell, assistant professor and program director at the College of Nursing at the University of Colorado Denver, with her co-director Jane Kass-Wolff, assistant professor, have been awarded a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration for $975,934. The goal of the grant, titled "Enhancing Gerontological Competence in Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Programs," is to significantly increase the number and diversity of advanced practice nurses (APRNs) who are prepared with gerontological knowledge and skills to provide quality, safe and culturally competent primary health care to a rural underserved, growing elderly population in Colorado. ... Leli Pedro, assistant professor, College of Nursing at the University of Colorado Denver, is the principal investigator for a new, three-year R15 grant funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) for her study "Rural long-term cancer survivors and contextual health-related quality of life." The study has evolved primarily from her clinical practice with cancer patients, serving as co-investigator on quality of life for long-term cancer survivor studies, and a 2006 Western Institute of Nursing/American Nurses Foundation scholar award on rural cancer survivors' quality of life. ... David Fenell, interim dean, College of Education at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, was inducted into Oklahoma State University's ROTC Hall of Fame prior to the university's officer commissioning ceremonies May 6 in Stillwater, Okla. After 26 years of military service, Fenell retired last year from the U.S. Army as a colonel in the Medical Services Corps. His military record included combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq where he earned Bronze Star Medals for each tour. ... Alex Soifer, professor of interdepartmental studies at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, recently received the Colorado Mathematical Olympiad Service Excellence Award from Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak in recognition of 28 years of outstanding service to the university and the region. The award was presented following the 28th Colorado Mathematical Olympiad.
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