Auraria Staff and Faculty Creates
More than a dozen artisans from the campus community are displaying their works—from paintings to jewelry—at the Tivoli Multicultural Lounge through today as part of “Auraria Library Staff and Faculty Creates” sponsored by the Auraria Library Diversity Committee. Above, Mindy Gewuerz, program assistant for the Department of Civil Engineering, stands next to her artwork in the Tivoli Student Union Multicultural Lounge. The large acrylic, gouache, and glass bead painting to her right, Mindelbrot, is a comment on fractal geometry as explained by Benoit Mandelbrot in the New Scientist magazine. Below, Here and Now, a fiber-art wedding quilt by Mary Lassiter of educational opportunity programs, reflects beauty, history and culture.
Promotion and Tenure Luncheon
The Promotion and Tenure Luncheon, hosted by Provost Mark Heckler and associate vice chancellors Laura Goodwin and Marguerite Childs, celebrated those who have achieved tenure and promotion, appointments with tenure, awards of tenure, as well as those promoted. In addition, new faculty were encouraged to take part in the festivities at St. Cajetan’s on Aug. 14. Above, Chancellor M. Roy Wilson speaks on the important and expanding role of faculty at UCDHSC. Below, newly tenured faculty member Deborah Thomas, associate professor in CLAS, introduces herself to her peers.
New Faculty Orientation
The Center for Faculty Development's annual new faculty orientation, Aug. 13-17, introduced tenure and non-tenure track faculty to the inner workings of UCDHSC. The event has grown from a one-day session for tenure track faculty five years ago to a weeklong series of workshops and meetings for all faculty, including an introduction to CU Online, a student panel (below), and lunch with Faculty Assembly. "Our goal is to welcome new colleagues into our university community and to help them start their semester with tools that will make it successful for themselves and their students," stresses CFD Director Ellen Stevens. Above from left, Stevens and assistant Melissa Carruth aid an incoming faculty member. This year, the CFD welcomed four full professors, six associate professors, 24 assistant professors, five instructors and 23 lecturers.
Colorado Book Award finalist readings
Above, Teague Bohlen, instructor in the Department of English, reads from his debut novel The Pull of the Earth Aug. 24 at the Mercury Café in Denver. Bohlen is one of four finalists in the Colorado Book Awards this year in the fiction category for his novel, which came out in November 2006. The winner will be announced in October. Below, Rebecca Bohlen of the Business School is one of many fans on hand at the reading.
'Failure Case Studies in the Civil Engineering Curriculum'
The College of Engineering hosted a one-day professional workshop “Workshop on Failure Case Studies in the Civil Engineering Curriculum” for 33 participants, including metro Denver area engineers as well as faculty from Hawaii, Kansas, Texas, and Washington on Friday, July 20. Organized by Civil Engineering Professor Kevin Rens and taught by Rens and four other members of the American Society of Civil Engineers Technical Council on Forensic Engineering Education Committee, the workshop presented cases and teaching techniques based on 10 years of investigation into integrating failure case studies into engineering and architectural courses. (Photos by Linda Cohen.)
