COMING TOGETHER TODAY AND EVERY DAY

A young member of the Blackhorse Singers & Ancestral Connection dances to a Native story put to song at the inaugural Commencement Celebration Reception for Inclusion. (Click for Story)

AMP: INCLUSION, DIVERSITY PART OF AN ONGOING MISSION
The importance of diversity and inclusion is incalculable; the ability to foster and promote it is invaluable. The Academic Master Plan (AMP), now in the budgeting stage, has identified diversity and inclusion as one of its nine priorities, and administrators are working to ensure the needs of a diverse student, faculty and staff population are met. (Click for Story)

ENGINEERING TEAM WINS NATIONAL EPA AWARD
A team of engineering students from the led by Anu Ramaswami, engineering professor, was one of seven teams to win the Environmental Protection Agency’s inaugural P3 – People, Prosperity and the Planet – competition. (Click for Story)

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY CIT GRANT LAUNCHES NEW PROGRAM
Thanks to a $164,000 grant from the Colorado Institute of Technology (CIT) and $25,000 in funds from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Center for Computational Biology is helping to facilitate and construct  new undergraduate programs that incorporate the areas of math, biology and computer science. (Click for Story)

LRPC AWARDED $2.5 MILLION FOR CANCER AWARENESS PROGRAM
Five more years and four more counties: The Latino/a Research & Policy Center has been awarded a $2.5 million grant by the National Cancer Institute to continue and expand its cancer prevention and control Network. (Click for Story)

GRANDIN SPEAKS TO STUDENTS, FACULTY, COMMUNITY ON AUTISM
Imagine, if you can, if everything you either hear, see, smell or touch is magnified several times over. Imagine having hypersensitive perception and trying to learn to maintain some level of control in a world that is overwhelming. That’s how people with autism feel. (Click for Story)

2005 FACULTY AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Provost Mark Heckler recently announced the winners of the 2005 faculty awards for excellence in research and creative activities, teaching, service, and librarianship at the Downtown Denver Campus. (Click for Story)

CHECK THIS OUT  . . .

• The Rocky Mountain News ran a story on the work of Martin Lockley, professor of geology, and graduate student graduate student Reiji Kukihara to preserve dinosaur footbrints at John Martin Reservoir. Click Here for the story.
• Also in the RMN, Alan Davis, associate professor of research and evaluation methodology in the School of Education, helped crunch the numbers for a study on Denver's high drop-out rate. For his column on his observations on graduation gap, Click Here.
• The study, "Are We Getting Our Money's Worth?,"  released by the Front Range Economic Strategy Center, was featured in an article in the Rocky Mountain News. It is the second report on the financing authored by UCDHSC political science professor Tony Robinson and Chris Nevitt, executive director of FRESC, a research, policy-development and public-interest organization. Click Here for the story.