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Honoring Excellence: Teske Wins Campuswide Research, Creative Activities Award
First in a series on the 2005 Faculty Awards.
Paul Teske, professor in the Graduate School of Public Affairs, is a young scholar who has already made an impact at the university, state and national level. (Click for Full Story, Department Winners)
Young Authors View Reality TV the 'Write' Way
There’s a wrong way and a ‘write’ way to approach reality. On one hand, there’s hours spent sitting in front of reality television; on the other hand there’s “Writing Your Own Reality,” a week-long camp for 10- to 17-year-olds sponsored by the Denver Writing Project in the Downtown Denver Campus’ Department of English. (Click for Full Story)
Former Secretary of State Joins Celebration of Success
The Bill of Rights was not written to protect uncontroversial speech, rather controversial speech. These words, imparted by former Secretary of State General Colin L. Powell, USA (Ret.), kicked off the Business School’s ninth annual Celebration of Success. (Click for Full Story)
A Starry, Starry Afternoon for Staff Standouts
While some might argue that stars don’t shine in the daytime, the Downtown Denver Campus staff has consistently proved otherwise. These stars came out in full to the elegant and historic Tivoli Turnhalle on May 26 to honor the best and brightest performers of the past year. (Click for Full Story)
'Journey of Life Meetinghouse' the Best of the Bard
Tiffany Espinosa, winner of the fourth annual Bard Center for Entrepreneurship Business Plan Competition, plans to build a no-profit country club-style facility for seniors. Many elderly folks, she explained, don’t need any kind of indigent care, but are hindered in their ability to get out and about by poor eyesight, arthritis – any myriad of minor difficulties – and become shut-ins. (Click for Full Story)
Fellowship Enables Stefes to Study Terrorism in Israel
Assistant Professor of Political Science Christoph Stefes recently returned from a 10-day fellowship in Israel studying international terrorism. (Click for Full Story) It's a Wrap: Engineering Team Nets International Honor
The “Outstanding Student Paper” Excellence Award was received by Sunhwa Jung, Min Hong, and Min-Hyung Choi, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, for the paper “An Adaptive Collision Detection and Resolution for Deformable Objects Using Spherical Implicit Surface” at the Fifth International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS) held May 22-25 at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. (Click for Full Story)
CU Online’s ‘Late Show’ Offers Faculty Tons of Top 10 Tips
The Late Show with CU Online might have been devoid of “stupid human tricks” but there were plenty of intelligent computer tricks for online course enhancement and – of course – lots of Top 10 lists as well. (Click for Full Story)
Campus Apartments Break Ground, To Open in Fall 2006
Through an agreement between Urban Ventures LLC and the University of Colorado Real Estate Foundation (CUREF), construction has begun on a 685-bed student housing project immediately adjacent to the Auraria Campus in Denver. (Click for Full Story)
Check This Out . . .
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Theresa Ferg, Center for Computational Biology coordinator, was interviewed by the Denver Post about her research on PHI. Ellen Stevens, director of the Center for Faculty Development, is quoted as well. Check out the archives at www.denverpost.com. -
UCDHSC Chancellor Jim Shore is honored at a gala banquet covered by The Rocky Mountain News . (Click for Story) -
Provost Mark Heckler and Rod Muth, SOE, discuss possible revision of the tenure system in the Denver Post. Check out the archives at www.denverpost.com. -
The Business School’s 2005 Celebration of Success featuring former Secretary of State General Colin L. Powell, USA (Ret.) was covered by The Daily Camera, Click Here. (Registration may be required) -
The Bard Center fourth annual Business Plan Competition was featured in the Denver Post. (Click for Story) -
The Downtown Denver Campus’ first housing development, a boost to efforts by the campus' three schools to draw out-of-state and international graduate students, is under way. See the article in The Rocky Mountain News. (Click for Story) |
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