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$2.5 million for Children, Youth and Environments
The College of Architecture and Planning has received a $2.5 million gift from an anonymous donor to endow the Children, Youth and Environments Center for Research and Design (CYE). This represents the largest gift by an individual donor in the history of the downtown Denver campus.
 








Busses will be rerouted through Aug. 19 as the RTD turnaround in front of the Tivoli Student Union is modified. The turning point for busses will be moved closer to Speer between the PE Event Center and North Classroom.



Passion, action earn Jefferson Award for Mascaro
Steve Mascaro is the proverbial drop in the pool that creates ringlets that expand to waves. He is a man whose kindness and passion have quietly inspired others to take action or support his actions, positively affecting the lives of thousands of people in the Denver area and beyond.

Excellence: Bradbeer sees library as path to truth
Hazardous waste and water use are two of the issues that led the winner of this year’s Excellence in Librarianship award on a career path winding to the Auraria Library. As a hydrologist, Gayle Bradbeer saw first-hand the inherent dangers of hazardous waste and squandered resources. 

Service: Ulibarri a beacon on campus and off
Mary Ulibarri doesn’t simply look for the bright side of life; she’s an active part of it. Whether she’s assisting students, faculty and staff at the library reference desk, assembling care packages for armed forces in Iraq or enabling underrepresented children to recognize their blessings, Ulibarri is a master at taking sad songs and making them better.

CAP students find Big Easy hard, worthwhile work
The widespread and complete devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina created a vast need for expertise in all aspects of rebuilding. Four professors and 28 graduate students made an important impact in fulfilling this need.

CU Online Web campers not exactly roughing it
You could almost smell the s'mores when faculty arrived at camp. This summer, CU Online and the Center for Faculty Development invited faculty to attend Web Camp, a week-long workshop designed to help with the development of new online courses. Faculty applicants were selected based on a proposal process, and campers arrived for a week of supported course development work.

Granting wishes in faculty development
The Center for Faculty Development (CFD) helped ensure that 27 unique and innovative proposals were given a boost with grant awards totaling about $54,000 the past fiscal year.

Knight on the rocks, day at Dinosaur Tracks
Well-known English filmmaker Sir David Attenborough stopped by the Dinosaur Tracks Museum on the Auraria campus last week to visit with UCDHSC Paleontologist Martin Lockley.

Young writers overcome 'fear factor'
The Denver Writing Project (DWP) got under way this month with three groups of writers on campus.  One contingent of these writers included over two dozen Denver area fifth-to-10th graders for the 2006 Young Writer’s Camp (YWC).

The creator of a technologically advanced, lightweight prosthetic foot received first-place and biotechnology honors June 14 at the fifth annual Bard Center Business Plan Competition at the Grand Hyatt in downtown Denver.

New home page look coming soon
As part of the work under way to implement online improvements for the downtown Denver campus, a new home page is being built. In the coming weeks, we will post a new home page that includes more information, such as links to a university profile and a short feature on the person pictured on the home page.

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July 2006
 

As of Aug. 1, Jim Hageman will be associate vice chancellor for Research and Graduate Studies for the downtown Denver campus.

The University of Colorado Denver has announced the appointment of Jon Harbor, PhD, of Purdue University as dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS). 
 
 
 The Fulbright Awards are synonymous with excellence in scholarship and community service. 

Tony Robinson, assistant professor of the UCDHSC Political Science Department, was honored Tuesday, June 20, at a luncheon sponsored by the University of Colorado Foundation.

People going places

Ann Martin is one of more than a dozen faculty members in CLAS, SEHD and the Business School honored this month.

Reminder! The June pay date is not until Monday, July 3





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