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Lee facilitates common ground for exhibit, countries
 Yuk Lee, professor of Urban and Regional Planning, helped bring understanding of U.S.-Japan relations to the College of Architecture and Planning and the Denver community. In turn, his organizing and facilitating the Kumamoto Artpolis Exhibit, held at CAP in April 2004, helped the Japan Foundation, and all those associated with it, understand the broad scope of education at the University of Colorado’s downtown Denver campus.
For this and other service activities, internally and externally, Lee was chosen the 2006 College of Architecture and Planning Excellence in Service award winner.
“The College of Architecture and Planning turned out to be the perfect partner for the exhibit,” writes Kenichi Kimiya, deputy consul general of Japan. “Professor Lee’s fine detail of the layout of the exhibit meant [it] was easy to follow and had a natural flow. Thanks to these efforts, the Consulate-General was able to realize its mission to promote awareness about [the 150th anniversary of U.S.-Japan relations] and to further strengthen relations between our two nations through friendship and mutual understanding.”
No stranger to service, Lee was on the Policy and Program Discontinuance Committee and the search committee for the Faculty Fellow for Inclusion. At the college level, he is the faculty advisor for international students since 1995, organizing the college’s international student receptions, the annual potluck, and assisting them in academic, housing, practical training and other matters.
Lee reviews urban design student applications, coordinates the College of Visiting Scholars Program and has acted as a member of two staff search committees.
Having started in CAP in 1986 (he was a member of the geography department in CLAS from 1970 to 1986), Lee has served as director of the urban and regional planning program, associate dean (1988-1991, and 2004-on) and, earlier, acting dean of the School of Architecture and Planning.
In Denver, Lee served on Gov. Richard Lamm’s Science and Technology Council (1983-19887), the Denver Eligible Metropolitan Area HIV and AIDS Resource Planning Council (1995-97); the Denver OPWA Committee (1994-97) and has served with the Colorado Chapter of the Organization of Chinese Americans for more than 30 years. |
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