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CU Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus faculty honored
Winners of the annual faculty awards for the University of Colorado Denver and Anschutz Medical Campus recently were announced by Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs Roderick Nairn.
The awards recognize excellence in areas of teaching, research, creative activities and librarianship.
Award winners are:
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President's Excellence in Teaching Award
Douglas N. Fish, School of Pharmacy (clinical pharmacy); David Gozalo, School of Dental Medicine (restorative dentistry); Robert A. Winn, School of Medicine (pulmonary medicine and critical care); Tammy Spencer, College of Nursing; and Holly J. Wolf, Colorado School of Public Health (community and behavioral health).
Chancellor's Teaching Recognition Award
Mark E. Deutchman, School of Medicine (family medicine); Michael R. Carry, School of Dental Medicine; Joseph J. Saseen, School of Pharmacy (clinical pharmacy); Jane Kass-Wolff, College of Nursing; Christopher C. Franklin, Graduate School (School of Pharmacy); and John E. Hokanson, Colorado School of Public Health (department of epidemiology).
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Provost's Award for Excellence in Practices Related to Non-Tenure-Track Faculty
This award is presented to an academic unit for excellence in practices regarding non-tenure-track faculty that support the mission of the Denver Campus. The winning unit is the Business School.
Excellence in Faculty Mentoring
The Award for Excellence in Faculty Mentoring was created through the generosity of Lennie and Bob Damrauer to recognize the process by which faculty serve as role models for each other, promote the professional development of others and create a supportive, positive working environment. The campus award winner is Brenda J. Allen, master mentor for the Tenure Track Faculty Mentoring Program and associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Excellence in Research and Creative Activities
Thomas Andrews, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (history); Vinit Desai, Business School; James Guo, College of Engineering and Applied Science (civil engineering); Nancy Leech, School of Education and Human Development; Nina McHale, Auraria Library; Jeremy Nemeth, College of Architecture and Planning; Gregory Walker, College of Arts and Media; Christopher Weible, School of Public Affairs; and Jake York, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (English). The campus award winner is Christopher Weible.
Excellence in Teaching (Professor/Associate Professor/Assistant Professor)
Elizabeth Allen, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (psychology); Teague Bohlen, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (English); Christopher Daniels, College of Arts and Media; Angela Gover, School of Public Affairs; Stefanie Johnson, Business School; Charles Musiba, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (anthropology); and Laura Summers, School of Education and Human Development. The campus award winner is Angela Gover.
Excellence in Teaching (Senior Instructor/Instructor/Lecturer)
Suzanne Adams, School of Education and Human Development; Aimee Bernard, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (integrative biology); Jessica Lance, College of Arts and Media; Peter Marxhausen, College of Engineering and Applied Science (civil engineering); and Peter Miller, Business School. The campus award winner is Suzanne Adams.
Excellence in Service
Richard Allen, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (psychology); Orlando Archibeque, Auraria Library; Nancy Ciccone, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (English); Mary Dodge, School of Public Affairs; Michael Jenson, College of Architecture and Planning; Manuel Serapio, Business School; David Tracer, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (anthropology); and Caron Westland, School of Education and Human Development. The campus award winner is Mary Dodge.
Excellence in Librarianship
The winner of this award was selected by the Library Faculty Personnel Committee. This year's winner is Karen Sobel.
Colorado Springs professionals name new board members
Board members for the Professional Exempt Staff Association at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs recently were elected. The 2011-2012 board members are:
Stephanie Hanenberg, director, Student Health Center, president; Ida Dilwood, director, Office of Disability Services and University Testing, vice president; Ralph Giese, director, Office of Residence Life and Housing, treasurer; Megan Bell, associate director, University Center, member-at-large; and Matt Gaden, director, Campus Recreation Center, member-at-large.
Adjunct professor named a Loeb Fellow at Harvard
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Peter Park, associate professor adjunct of planning and design at the University of Colorado Denver and manager of community planning and development for the city and county of Denver, has been selected as a Loeb Fellow by Harvard's Graduate School of Design.
He is one of nine outstanding practitioners whose work shapes the built and natural environment in which we live, work and play and who will be in residence in Cambridge for the 2011-12 academic year, undertaking independent study to improve their professional skills and their leadership abilities. He is interested in new visualization technologies as planning tools. Trained as an architect and urban designer, Park will research new methods for engaging citizens in the planning process and explore opportunities for replacing urban freeways with boulevards in city centers.
Assistant dean awarded grant to boost language program
Kuan-Yi Rose Chang, assistant dean and modern languages instructor at the University of Colorado Denver, has been awarded $104,132 per year for the next five years by the U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP).
The project aims to assist Denver Language School (DLS), a new immersion charter school within the Denver Public School system, in delivering a comprehensive K-8 curriculum in a full-immersion environment in Mandarin Chinese.
CU Denver will deliver graduate-level teacher training courses for DLS in curriculum design, articulation, teaching methodology, technology integration and program assessment. CU Denver students also will serve as teaching assistants in DLS classrooms. They will participate in academic and homework support activities with children who need additional help. These students also will assist DLS in designing and delivering a four-week summer immersion language camp from mid-June to mid-July.
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Brenda Allen, associate dean and communication professor at the University of Colorado Denver, is the recipient of Ohio University's 2011 Paul Boase Prize for scholarship for outstanding contributions to the discipline of communication. She will receive the award in October. ... Nicole Beer, a senior instructor of English at the University of Colorado Denver, is a finalist for the Colorado Book Award in the poetry category. Beer, author of "The Diminishing House" (Carnegie Mellon University Press), is one of 33 finalists selected for awards in a variety of categories. Winners will be announced June 24. ... Joni Dunlap, associate professor in the School of Education and Human Development, and Patrick Lowenthal, academic technology coordinator with Academic Technology/Extended Learning and SEHD doctoral student at the University of Colorado Denver, recently published "Learning, unlearning and relearning: Using Web 2.0 technologies to support the development of lifelong learning skills" in G. Magoulas E-Infrastructures and Technologies for Lifelong Learning: Next Generation Environments. Also, their article "Tweeting the Night Away" was submitted for the Maryellen Weimer Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning Award at the upcoming Teaching Professor Conference. ... Phil Strain of the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Colorado Denver has been awarded $1.2 million over three years for a LEAP-USA proposal to the Institute of Education Sciences (IES). Strain's work is a follow-up to determine if differential outcomes for children in the LEAP-USA randomized control trial continue to manifest themselves over a three-year period. ... Also in the School of Education and Human Development, Bud Talbot's collaborative proposal with the Boulder Language Technologies submitted to IES in Fall 2010 has been awarded $102,000 over three years. The project is titled "Comprehension Through Self-Explanation, Enhanced Discussion and Inquiry Generation (SEEDING)." Talbot will provide expertise in developing teacher and student-level measures to be used in the project, assist with the design of teacher training, and lead classroom observation-based research efforts.
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