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Braider to oversee journalism faculty

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University of Colorado Boulder Professor Christopher Braider has been named director of journalism and mass communication faculty.

The move, effective July 1, "marks the next key step in developing a more contemporary program in journalism and media studies," said CU-Boulder Provost Russell L. Moore.

Braider will oversee the daily administrative operations of the faculty, including the implementation of the new Journalism Plus program, which is housed temporarily in CU-Boulder's Graduate School. He will not be directly involved in curriculum design issues or teach in the department.

"The transition from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication to a new program requires a fair-minded leader who will not be influenced by past conflicts and issues in the school," Moore said. "Chris Braider has demonstrated in a number of positions at CU-Boulder that he can lead with fairness and objectivity while carrying out the many administrative tasks required to run a program."

Moore said he chose Braider, a professor of French and Italian, as director because of his long tenure on campus and his programmatic leadership experience. Braider has been on campus for 20 years after having served on the faculty at Harvard University. He has served as chair of French and Italian (1994-2001), acting director of the Center for Humanities and the Arts (2004-05) and chair of Comparative Literature and Humanities (1996-97). He also was the 2010 winner of the Boulder Faculty Assembly Service Award.

The CU Board of Regents voted April 14 to discontinue the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and to offer journalism education at CU-Boulder through a dual-major structure beginning in spring 2012. With time, the Journalism Plus program could move into a larger interdisciplinary college or school that would incorporate disciplines such as computer science, media and advertising design, media studies and other related fields of study.

Anschutz Medical Campus has new director of administration

Neil Krauss has been named director of administration for the Anschutz Medical Campus.

In the new role, Krauss will represent Executive Vice Chancellor Lilly Marks in a variety of matters, and oversee campus projects and initiatives, serving on committees and responding to internal and external concerns and constituents.

Krauss returns to the medical campus with a blend of professional skills that combine communication, management, analytical and financial expertise. Most recently he was director of project and space management, and the assistant vice chancellor for business and finance at the University of Denver, and served as a financial consultant for venture capitalists and private investors in the Denver area.

For more than 10 years, he was a recognized leader at DU who excelled in relationship building, facilitating problem solving, providing analytical support to senior-level staff and creating and implementing process structures to improve operational efficiencies.

Before working at DU, Krauss served as a planner at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center with the initial Institutional Planning team during the early stages of the creation of the Anschutz Medical Campus in 1999-2000. Previously, he worked for the CU President's Office as assistant to the vice president for business and finance, and served as a policy analyst for the Legislative Council at the Colorado Legislature, focusing on higher education and K-12 education policy.

Krauss has two master's degrees (finance and international studies) from DU and a bachelor's degree in journalism from Missouri. In a previous career, he was an award-winning reporter and daily newspaper editor.

Staff Council elects new officers

The University of Colorado Staff Council has elected new officers for 2011-2012. Unanimously elected to the positions are:

Chair, Carla Johnson, School of Nursing, Anschutz Medical Campus; Vice Chair, Teena Shepperson-Turner, University Risk Management, system administration; secretary, Dana Drummond, Bursar's Office, University of Colorado Boulder; treasurer, Tina Collins, Office of the Dean of Students, University of Colorado Colorado Springs.

Dropping names ...

Ginde

Goldstein

Dray

Martinez

Adit Ginde, M.D., M.P.H., and assistant professor of emergency medicine and the University of Colorado School of Medicine, received a Paul B. Beeson Career Development Award from the National Institute on Aging, the pre-eminent junior faculty award in aging research. ... Jill Davies, M.D., associate professor OB/GYN at the School of Medicine, has been named a Public Health Hero by the Tri-County Health Department. The award is given to people, businesses or organizations that improve or promote public health in Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas counties. Davis was nominated for her work with the Colorado Circle of Protection program, which provides Tdap vaccines for protection from pertussis. ... John C. Miller, professor emeritus at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs department of languages and cultures, will give three seminars in India this summer. He will lecture on multiple intelligences theory and teaching strategies for spoken English at Aligargh Muslim University and at the Ahmedabad Management Institute. During the past academic year, Miller was a full-time lecturer in English languages and literatures at Gaziantep University, Turkey, under a U.S. State Department English Language Fellowship. ... Bruce Goldstein, associate professor of planning and design at the University of Colorado Denver, was an invited speaker at the symposium "Resilience and Transformation: Megacities and the Coast" at King's College, London, in May. He presented a paper on the epistemological and methodological challenges to coastal urban resilience. The meeting was sponsored by the Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone Initiative. ... Kevin J. Krizek, associate professor of planning and design at the University of Colorado Denver, and co-director of the Active Communities/Transportation (ACT) Research Group and director of the Ph.D. program in design and planning, was principal investigator for the Access to Destinations Project. The final part of the project and the Metro Accessibility Matrix, the outreach component, were released in early June. ... Barbara Dray, assistant professor at the University of Colorado Denver School of Education and Human Development, has been appointed chair-designate of the American Education and Research Association's Communications and Outreach Committee for 2011-2012. Dray will serve as the chair of the committee for 2012-2014. Dray and colleague Maria Ruiz-Primo, associate professor, collaborated with Patrick Lowenthal, Academic Technology and Extended Learning, and colleagues Melissa Miszkiewicz and Kelly Marczynski, to develop an instrument to assess student readiness for online learning. ... Dominic F. Martinez, director of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion for the Anschutz Medical Campus, recently presented a paper on contemporary Native Hawaiian religious life at the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association annual meeting in Sacramento, Calif. Martinez's paper considers intersections of Hawaiian and Mormon traditions, especially as expressed in renewed canoeing practices.

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