Nov. 19
The American Public Health Association Statistics Section recognized Jack Barnette, PhD, associate dean for academic and student affairs and professor of biostatistics, at it’s annual meeting for his “many years of service in public health graduate programs, his outstanding teaching in biostatistics and his important contributions to the Statistics Section through is participation on the Action Board (2002-2004) and Statistics Section Council (2002-2004).” For additional information on the American Public Health Association Statistics Section, visit: www.apha.org/membergroups/sections/aphasections/stats/
Associate Professor of Community & Behavioral Health Sheana Bull, PhD, MPH, along with Rick Padilla and Charlene Ortiz, were awarded CCTSI Community Engagement pilot project funding for “Developing partnerships to facilitate integration of traditional Curanderismo with primary care.” Bull and her team are partnering with Eliseo Torres, vice president for student affairs, University of New Mexico; Arturo Ornelas Lizardi, director, El Centro de Desarrolo Humano, Cuernavaca, Mexico; Sofia Chavez-Fredrick, Estara's Integrative Program, Lakewood.
Michael Greene, assistant professor of integrative biology, and former student Amy Englert (M.S. Biology) have published a paper in the open-access journal PLoSOne. The paper, “Chemically-Mediated Roostmate Recognition and Roost Selection by Brazilian Free-tailed Bats (Tadarida brasiliensis),” describes how this bat uses chemical communication to recognize roostmates. This species can form roosts composed of millions of individuals.
Kevin J. Krizek, associate professor of planning and design, director of the Active Communities / Transportation (ACT) Research Group and director of the PhD program in design and planning, has been appointed as an affiliate member of the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI), an interdisciplinary joint research effort between the University of Colorado at Boulder and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
Civil Engineering Professor Anu Ramaswami participated in the International Symposium on Cities and Carbon Management: Towards Enhancing Science-Policy Linkages on Monday, Nov. 16, at the Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan. As part of a roundtable discussion related to science reaching out to decision makers, Ramaswami presented on “Transboundary Contributions to City-Scale Carbon Footprints and Policy Implications.” More information on the Symposium can be found at: http://www.gcp-urcm.org/A20091116/HomePage
Xiao-Jing Wang, MD, professor of dermatology and co-director of the UCCC Lung/Head & Neck Cancer Program, has a new publication in the November issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigations that shows deletion of the Smad4 gene in oral cavity epithelial cells causes 80 percent of head and neck cancer tumors in mice. Head and neck cancer is the sixth most common cancer and with five-year survival stuck at 50 percent for the past 20 years.
Nov. 11
Fifty-eight Cancer Center clinical members are listed in the 2009 Best Doctors in America issue. The list results from an annual peer-to-peer survey. The doctors who are members of UCCC are listed here.
Austin Allen, associate professor of landscape architecture, is a panelist presenting at the Greenbuild 2009 International Conference and Expo in Phoenix, Ariz., on Thursday, Nov. 12. This year's selection process was highly competitive with over 1,300 proposals submitted and only 112 accepted into the final program. Austin’s session, “Community beyond Housing,” focuses on the necessity to thoroughly address landscape and urban design issues in various community resource garden and open spaces within the Make It Right Target area and the surrounding Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans. Read about the conference here.
Fred Andreas, assistant professor of architecture, was a featured speaker at the Pikes Peak Sustainable Building Network sponsored by the Catamount Institute on November 3-4 presenting concepts of green building, energy and codes to Federal Government agencies in Colorado Springs.
On Oct. 29, School of Public Affairs Professor Kathleen Beatty gave the keynote address at a symposium sponsored by the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at the City College of New York. The Rangel Center, located in Harlem, has a mission of educating underserved and underrepresented populations for the public service. The symposium was intended to inspire the development and implementation of its Master of Public Administration Program. Beatty's remarks focused on ways the Center could successfully fulfill its mission, while also preparing for accreditation by the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration. Beatty is a past-president of NASPAA and has chaired accreditation site visits and served on NASPAA's Commission on Peer Review and Accreditation.
A review of the book Planning for Place and Plexus, co-authored by Kevin J. Krizek, associate professor of planning and design, director of the Active Communities / Transportation (ACT) Research Group, and director of the PhD program in design and planning, appeared in the most recent issue of the Journal of American Planning Association. The book, used in URP 6674, is Kevin's second. He was the lead author of the manuscript "Explaining changes in walking and bicycling behavior: challenges for transportation research," just published by Environment and Planning B (2009, volume 36, pages 725 - 740). The article is with colleagues Susan Handy and Ann Forsyth and outlines important issues and challenges researchers face in their attempts to produce credible evidence on walking and cycling interventions; it is available for viewing in the faculty publications display (third floor of the UC Denver Building) and on Krizek’s Web site.
Robert Schrier, MD, professor of Medicine in the Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, was invited to speak at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Contemporary Clinical Medicine – Great Teachers Series, a component of the NIH Clinical Center Grand Rounds, in Bethesda, Md., on Oct. 14, 2009. He presented his talk on “The Sea Within Us: Clinical Disorders of Water Homeostasis.” Schrier’s research has been funded by the NIH for more than 35 years.
The North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (NASPGHAN) will award Ron Sokol, MD, professor of Pediatrics, the Shwachman Award at their annual meeting Nov. 13. Presented on an annual basis, this award acknowledges lifetime contributions and achievement in the field of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition.
Nov. 6
Associate Dean Brenda J. Allen facilitated a workshop on “Leading Change in Higher Education: Looking More Closely at Race, Gender, and Power” for the Denver Institute for Higher Education Resource Services on Oct. 22.
Robert Schrier, MD, professor of Medicine in the Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, was invited to speak at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Contemporary Clinical Medicine – Great Teachers Series, a component of the NIH Clinical Center Grand Rounds, in Bethesda, Md., on Oct. 14, 2009. He presented his talk on “The Sea Within Us: Clinical Disorders of Water Homeostasis.” Schrier’s research has been funded by the NIH for more than 35 years.
The North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (NASPGHAN) will award Ron Sokol, MD, professor of Pediatrics, the Shwachman Award at their annual meeting Nov. 13. Presented on an annual basis, this award acknowledges lifetime contributions and achievement in the field of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition.
An article written by Assistant Professor of Communication Hamilton Bean, ‘“A Complicated and Frustrating Dance”: National Security Reform, the Limits of Parrhesia, and the Case of the 9/11 Families,’ appears in Rhetoric & Public Affairs (Volume 12, Number 3, Fall 2009).
Nicole Beer, assistant professor of English, has a poem, "Post-Mortem," featured in this week's "Poet's Choice" column in the Washington Post.
Margarita Bianco in the School of Education and Human Development had two proposals accepted for the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) annual convention to be held April 21-24, 2010 in Nashville. The titles of her presentations are Gifted Girls: Gender Bias in Gifted Referrals and Strategies for Including G/T Topics in Teacher Preparation Programs: How & Why – Barbara Dray, SEHD, is the second presenter on this one.
Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology Laurel Hartley contributed to a new computer interactive that is currently on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in the "Dig It! The Secrets of Soil" exhibition. The interactive is also on the Smithsonian Web site where it is accessible to all visitors. The interactive game teaches people about greenhouse gas emissions from soil and was developed using real data and simulation models created by ecological researchers.
On Oct. 30, Department of Communication Chair Stephen John Hartnett, presented the keynote address on “Moving Toward Social Justice,” at the University of Colorado Boulder conference on “Making It Real: Service Learning and Civic Engagement.”
Associate Professor of Philosophy David Hildebrand presented a paper on "Dewey's Last Lost Book: Initial Impressions and Reflections" at John Dewey's 150th Birthday Celebration: An International Conference on Dewey's Impact on America and the World," held at the Center for Inquiry in Amherst, N.Y., Oct. 22-24. This panel discussed the contents and significance of a recently discovered book manuscript Dewey produced late in his career and was long presumed lost in a New York city taxicab.
Linda Theus-Lee, program assistant in the Business School, has been awarded the African-American Leadership Institute (AALI) “Unsung Hero Mountain Award” given in appreciation of her dedicated commitment to the community and outstanding service in the area of The Arts. Theus-Lee will be honored at the AALI 19th annual graduation and Awards Ceremony on Sunday, Nov. 8, at the Kimbal Hall, located at 700 E. 24th Avenue (24th and Washington Street). AALI aims to develop leadership skills that empower individuals to become influential citizens who successfully author and implement solutions to the needs of business and community.
Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology Michael Wunder coauthored a research paper titled "Concurrent declines in nestling diet quality and reproductive success of a threatened seabird over 150 years" that was published in the journal Endangered Species Research. The collaborative work appeared in a theme issue titled "forensic methods in conservation research."
Nov. 2
Learning Landscapes was one of 12 “relevant and innovative best practices in play” case studies in a national report released by KaBoom! titled Play Matters: A Study of Best Practices to Inform Local Policy and Process in Support of Children’s Play. Lois Brink, Professor of Landscape Architecture, director of Learning Landscapes and director of the Colorado Center for Community Development, will present on a best practices report panel for Play Matters at the National League of Cities Congress of Cities in San Antonio on Nov. 12.
Professor of Architecture George Hoover recently presented his book-length Auraria Campus Design Guidelines to the leaders of UC Denver, Metro State, CCD, and Auraria Higher Education Center. Since campus land is limited, the Guidelines envision a dense, urban model of streets, blocks, and squares rather than a diffuse rural model of parks and pavilions. The Guidelines were approved unanimously. Design work has begun on the first two campus projects to be developed under them — Metro’s Student Success Center and the School of Hotel Management.
Joe Juhasz, Professor of Architecture, is now a blogger for Psychology Today. His blog is called “Place of Mind” and it deals with psychology and architecture. You can read Joe’s first blog here.
Kevin J. Krizek, associate professor of planning and design, director of the Active Communities / Transportation (ACT) Research Group, and director of the PhD Program in design and Planning, was invited to present two different talks in Canada last week. The first was offered to the School of Urban Planning and Civil Engineering at McGill University in Montreal; the second was part of the "Intersections" lecture series offered by the Department of Geography at the University of Toronto.
A two-year, $1.4 million American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant will kick start dynamic research in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) at the University of Colorado Cancer Center. Dr. Christopher Porter, assistant professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine and pediatric oncologist at The Children’s Hospital, is the beneficiary of the faculty recruitment grant. He will use the funds to employ high-tech screening tools to look for genes in AML that, when they are turned off, make it easier for conventional therapies to kill the cells. About 12,800 American adults and children will be diagnosed with AML in 2009. While great strides have been made in curing other kinds of leukemia five year survival for AML is about 60 percent in children and less than 25 percent in adults.
From Oct. 21 to 23, Civil Engineering Professor Anu Ramaswami was invited as part of the National Science Foundation/U.S. delegation to participate in the U.S.-Japan Workshop on Lifecycle Assessment of Sustainable Infrastructure Materials held at Hokkaido University, Japan. The workshop focused on the use of composite materials in the construction of sustainable infrastructure systems. Bringing composite engineers, infrastructure designers, transportation planners, life cycle analysts, and industrial ecologists to work together was a central theme to this workshop, which was jointly sponsored by NSF, JSCE (Japan Society of Civil Engineers), Lawrence Technological University, and ACC. Ramaswami presented a talk on “Sustainable Infrastructure Materials Policy at the City-Scale: Data & Institutional Needs.” See workshop overview at http://www.hucc.hokudai.ac.jp/~m16120/workshop2009/program.html.
Civil Engineering Professor Kevin Rens has received a contract for $ 500,000/year for 5 years (through August 2014) for technical and engineering services for the City and County of Denver. This project will continue his work of completing inventories and assessing the pavement condition of city-owned infrastructure (curb, street, alley, side walk, and the like) as well as GIS tasks and assisting other city agencies as requested. The agreement also covers bridge management such as nondestructive evaluation of bridge deterioration, annual minor (less than 20-foot spans) bridge structure inspection, and management of bridge data documentation. This work has been on-going and continuous for the past 14 years, and 10-25 engineering students are employed annually by the project.
Oct. 30
ImmuRx has been awarded a $577,000 SBIR award from NIH to study the application of its adjuvant platform to the treatment of tuberculosis. This award will extend the ImmuRx platform from treating cancer to treating chronic infectious diseases such as TB.
ImmuRx was co-founded by Ross Kedl, assistant professor in the Department of Immunology at UC Denver. Key intellectual property was licensed from the University of Colorado.
A major part of the work will be done in two Colorado laboratories. Kedl’s laboratory at the University of Colorado Denver, will optimize the immunological properties of the adjuvant and then Dr. Angelo Izzo, at the Mycobacteria Research Laboratories at Colorado State University, will test whether the approach protects against tuberculosis. The program will take two years.
Oct. 27
Thomas Andrews, assistant history professor in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has received another award for his first published book, Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War. Andrews received the Caroline Bancroft Prize for the best book on the history of the American West from Denver Public Library. The book has previously won five other state and national honors.
Cancer Center Executive Director Tim Byers spoke to the President’s Cancer Panel – two distinguished scientists (LaSalle Leffall and Margaret Kripke) who directly advise President Barak Obama on matters of cancer policy – Oct. 27 in Los Angeles. The hearing was in support of a report they are preparing on “America’s demographic and cultural transformation: Implications for the cancer enterprise.” Byers presented findings and conclusions from a set of Colorado studies that compare breast cancer risk factors and outcomes between Hispanic and non-Hispanic white women. Byers found that the pattern of differences in underlying risk, risk factors, tumor phenotypes and outcomes points to a combination of biological factors related to estrogen metabolism and sociological factors related to health care access account for the many differences in breast cancer among Latinas.
Mechanical Engineering Professor J. Kenneth Ortega co-authored the Feature Review Article in Elsevier’s September 2009 Trends in Plant Science (co-author is Anja Geitmann, University of Montreal). Titled “Mechanics and Modeling of Plant Cell Growth,” the article describes the theoretical and biophysical cellular growth processes of plants and fungal cells with the use of mathematical models. See online at Ortega article.
Oct. 23
Bambi Yost, PhD student in Design and Planning, showcased the Children, Youth, and Environments’s (CYE) partnership with Casey Middle School at the Colorado Bioneers conference Oct. 16-18. Since 2007, Casey Middle School and the University of Colorado have been collaborating on sustainability and design issues. The service-learning course initiated through CYE's Center for Research and Design has been taught by Ian Bates, Debbie Flanders-Cushing, Susie Strife, Bambi Yost, and Jason Bentley in CAP’s Environmental Design (ENVD) program. The course enhances Casey Middle School’s Applied Science Class taught by Kendra Kimmel and provides an opportunity for students to extend their knowledge of scientific concepts by working on real-world problems and issues. In addition, peer-to-peer learning furthers knowledge and collaboration skills as older and younger students work together. In anticipation of Casey’s new LEED certified school building project, students are developing a Sustainability Ambassadors Program & curriculum activities for Casey Middle School.
Kevin Krizek, associate professor of Planning and Design, director of the Active Communities / Transportation (ACT) Research Group, and director of the PhD Program in Design and Planning, was invited by the Transportation Center at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. where he lectured on Oct. 8 on the nature of national research for non-motorized transportation and implications for future policy.
Oct. 15
Fernando Mancilla-David, electrical engineering assistant professor, presented a talk on “AC Link Vector Switching Converters for Power Flow Control and Power Quality: A Review,” Oct. 6, at the North American Power Symposium—NAPS 2009 held at Mississippi State University, Starkville, Miss. See http://www.naps09.org/.
Computer Science Associate Professor Bogdan Chlebus gave a keynote address on “Conflict for Access Resolution and Adversity” on Sept. 22 at the Workshop on Reliability and Security in Wireless Networks held Elche Elx, Spain. See http://lpd.epfl.ch/sgilbert/workshop/.
Civil engineering doctoral student and IGERT Fellow Stephen Fisher participated in the Second Conference for Sustainability IGERTs Oct. 8-10, at Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz., where he presented a poster on “The Potential of Urban Ecosystem Services Performed at Brownfield Sites as Alternatives to Commercial/Residential Real Estate.” Fisher was awarded a travel grant by the National Science Foundation to attend this graduate student led conference focused on sustainability research. See http://sustainability.asu.edu/igert/c4si2.
Assistant Professor of Sociology Stacey Bosick received $500 in YUMP funds to support her participation in the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Nov. 4-6 in Philadelphia.
Chair of Integrative Biology Leo P. Bruederle co-authored a scientific note in the journal Madroño that documents the first record of Carex conoidea, the openfield sedge, in Colorado. This sedge was observed at Meyer Ranch Park (Jefferson County Open Space) west of Denver, while Bruederle was conducting fieldwork with colleagues from the University of Michigan, USDA Forest Service and Denver Botanic Garden. Although Carex conoidea is widely distributed in northeastern North America, this is only the third record for this species from the southwest.
Professor of Communication Sonja K. Foss conducted two teleconferences on "Generating and Refining Research Ideas" for the Text and Academic Authors Association on Oct. 5 and 12. In these teleconferences, she discussed various methods for generating research ideas but focused on the generative method, in which the scholar begins with a curious text or data.
Oct. 13
The U.S. Department of Education’s Transition to Teaching Program awarded a five-year, $2.5 million grant to the School of Education and Human Development's (SEHD) Ritu Chopra. The proposal "Teacher PREP: Teacher Preparation, Retention, and Empowerment Project," proposes a collaborative and comprehensive state-wide initiative with the Paraprofessional Resource and Research (PAR2A) Center as the lead agency in partnership with the Colorado Department of Education, several high-need schools and LEAs , and a designated agency that offers an alternative licensure program (The Teacher Institute at La Academia).
Also in SEHD, Barbara Smith and Phil Strain were awarded $1.2 million for three years for their proposal to the Colorado Department of Human Services to fund The Center for Social Emotional Competence and Inclusion. The center will provide a central point of contact, coordination and technical support for increasing the use of evidence-based, early childhood social-emotional and inclusive practices in early care and education settings, including family child care and in-home providers.
SEHD colleagues Cindy Gutierrez and Diane Hageman’s Teachers Learning in Networked Communities (TLINC) project received its third year of $22,500 funding from the National Commission for Teaching & America's Future. The goals of this grant are to provide new teachers with the collegial support and skilled guidance that promote effective teaching, with support from an online networked community.
Oct. 12
The Department of Pediatrics Career Teaching Scholars Award for 2009 is being shared by Daniel Hall, MD, associate professor of Pediatrics, Clinical Professors Allan Bock, MD and Daniel Feiten, MD, and School of Medicine Dean Richard Krugman. The teaching awards will be presented during Pediatric Grand Rounds Dec. 18, from 12:30-1:30 p.m. in the Mt. Oxford Auditorium at The Children's Hospital second floor Conference Center.
Jeremy Németh, Assistant Professor of Planning and Design and Director of the Master of Urban Design program, presented a paper at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) national conference in Washington, DC, last week. The paper "Comparing publicly and privately owned spaces in New York City" was part of a special session Jeremy organized called "Public space and the role of the planner." Over 100 people attended this special session, which included papers from top international planning and design researchers. The papers will be collected in a special guest-edited issue of the Journal of Urban Design in fall 2010.
Melanie Shellenbarger, senior instructor in the Department of Architecture, and Research Associate, Center of Preservation Research, gave a paper entitled “Modern Mountain Views: Constructing Summer Homes and Civic Identity” at the Western History Association annual conference in Denver on Oct. 8.
Downtown's Auraria Library Director Mary Somerville, PhD, has published a new monograph "Working Together: Collaborative Information Practices for Organizational Learning" (Chicago : American Library Association, 2009). http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=2796.
Oct. 2
Gary Fullerton, PhD, director and vice chairman of research in the Radiology Department, was given the Award of Merit at the International Union for Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine (IUPESM) at the opening ceremony of the World Congress, Sept. 8, in Munich, Germany. This award is bestowed triennially to a medical physicist who has had an outstanding career and provided distinguished service in the field of medical physics. Fullerton’s academic contributions have been extensive, with numerous publications in diagnostic imaging (primary focus MRI) and the creation/establishment of the second largest medical physics training program in the United States.
Associate Dean Brenda J. Allen was a visiting scholar at the University of Wisconsin - Madison's Office of Equity and Diversity, where she facilitated an assessment project and presented a workshop on communicating social identity for their SEED (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity) programs (Sept. 20-26).
Integrative Biology Chair Leo P. Bruederle attended the annual meeting of the Botanical Society of America in Snowbird, Utah, where he presented his sabbatical research conducted while a visiting scientist at the Canadian Museum of Nature. This research addresses the application of previously published micro-satellite primers to population and evolution genetic questions within the genus Carex, one of the largest genera of flowering plants worldwide. Dissemination was supported through funding from the Center for Faculty Development and the Department of Integrative Biology.
Greg Cronin, associate professor of integrative biology, will serve on the Board of Directors for Bands for Lands, a Colorado nonprofit dedicated to promoting sustainability and conservation through the arts. Bands for Lands produced the sustainability music festival called endOtrend held Saturday, Oct. 3. There is more information at BandsforLands.org, enoOtrend.com, and mutemansmicrophone.com.
Professor of Communication Sonja Foss conducted a four-day writing retreat for faculty members working on publications in the health disparities area at California State University-San Bernardino Sept. 15-18. She also presented a workshop, "Completing the Dissertation," to graduate students at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wis.
On Sept. 22, Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology Lisa Johansen gave the keynote address to more than 40 Boulder Valley District (BVDS) high school students and their parents at the Science Research Seminar kickoff event. Approximately 70 BVDS students will work with mentors, primarily from universities, and undertake independent research projects. The students will present their research at the District Science Fair in February and give talks on their research projects at the BVDS Science Symposium in April.
Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology Michael Wunder recently published work titled, "Geographic Variation of Strontium and Hydrogen Isotopes in Avian Tissue: Implications for Tracking Migration and Dispersal" in the journal PLoS ONE. The collaborative work demonstrates how natural abundances of hydrogen and strontium isotopes found in the feathers of migratory tree swallows are related to geography in North America and how these relations can be used in a wildlife forensics to infer seasonal migratory patterns for the global population of tree swallows.
Assistant Professor of Philosophy Gabriel Zamosc recently came back from a conference in Oxford, England, where he presented a paper on "Nietzsche’s Ideal of Autonomy: On the Connection between Sovereignty and Guilt." The conference was the 17th International Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and it took place Sept. 11-13.
Sept. 30
Dr. Michael Erlanger has been appointed chief of ophthalmology of the Department of Ophthalmology VA eye program starting in early October. Erlanger was a fellow in the department’s Cornea, External Diseases fellowship program and will begin his fifth year as a faculty member in the department. Erlanger has been very involved in the administrative leadership at the VA working effectively with Darren Gregory, MD. Gregory has taken on the role of residency program director and will continue his clinical and teaching work at the VA.
Drs. Mark Geraci and David Schwartz and others have received a Grand Opportunity (GO) grant for $11.5 million over two years to create the Lung Genome Research Consortium.
Sept. 28
George Hoover, professor of architecture in the College of Architecture and Planning, recently served Denver International Airport as architectural and planning advisor for the selection of the program manager for the airport’s forthcoming major expansion. As the sole architectural/planning advisor external to the DIA staff for the selection process, Hoover helped to formulate the qualifications criteria for the team that will provide the comprehensive design, program management and construction implementation services for the approximately $1 million Terminal and Landside Area Redevelopment Program.
Sept. 25
Anu Ramaswami, professor of engineering, and her team of University of Colorado Denver engineering research students led the development of a greenhouse gas emissions footprint for cities that is being used across Colorado and the nation. That work is now being recognized by AT&T, the telecommunications corporate leader that recognizes academic leadership in sustainability with its annual environmental fellowship awards.
Ramaswami was selected as one of three winners of this year’s funding through the AT&T’s Industrial Ecology Faculty Fellowship program. Ramaswami received $25,000 for a project titled “Diffusion of ICT Strategies for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in US Cities: Linking Industrial Ecology with Social Actors.”
Ken Sharp, assistant director of finance and administration for Facilities Management contributed a chapter “Strategic Enrollment Management’s Financial Dynamics” and co-authored an additional chapter “Supporting a SEM Plan: Role of Technology” in the book Applying SEM at the Community College. The book is published by the American Association of Collegiate Registrar’s and Admissions Officers (AACRAO).
Sept. 21
Associate Dean Brenda J. Allen was the kickoff keynote speaker at Utah State University for “Crossing Boundaries,” a year-long series of art exhibits, theater performances, and presentations by national and international artists and scholars. Her interactive presentation was titled “Difference Matters: Exploring Boundaries by Exchanging Stories” (Sept. 9). She also conducted a workshop for faculty on inclusive teaching.
The Department of Modern Language's coordinator for lower-division Spanish Senior Instructor Conxita Domeneh has received a grant from the Center for Humanities and the Arts at UC Boulder to give a paper at the Modern Languages Convention in Philadelphia in December. Her paper is titled "La famosa comedia de la entrada del marqués de los Vélez: la representación de la guerra de secesión catalana” (“La famosa comedia de la entrada del marqués de los Vélez: The Representation of the Catalan Secession War”).
Laurel Hartley, assistant professor of integrative biology, attended the international meeting of the NSF Long Term Ecological Research Program in Estes Park, Sept. 12-16. Hartley presented her K-12 science education research related to learning progressions for environmental literacy.
Kevin Krizek, associate professor of Planning and Design, director of the Active Communities/Transportation (ACT) Research Group, and director of the PhD Program in Design and Planning, was the lead author for a multi-year research study, "Access to Destinations," just published by the Minnesota Department of Transportation. The central aim of the study is to urge a new approach to understanding how people use the transportation system, and how transportation and land use interact. At the heart of this approach is the concept of accessibility: the ability of people to reach the destinations that they need to visit in order to meet their needs. By focusing on accessibility – rather than simple congestion measures – the Access to Destinations Study aims to produce a more complete and meaningful picture of transportation and its role in our lives. The final report is available here.
Jeremy Németh, assistant professor of Planning and Design and Director of the Master of Urban Design Program, is the author of a new article in Urban Studies called “Defining a public: The management of privately owned public space” (Volume 46, No. 11, pp. 2463-2490). The article outlines several major approaches to managing public spaces in New York City, finding that the most dominant management approach is one that carefully selects an appropriate or desirable set of users. Copies of the article can be found on the Planning and Design Publications bookshelf across from the 3rd floor elevators. The article is also available here (if on a campus networked computer).
Sept. 16
Ritu Chopra, School of Education and Human Development, recently published the article “What do Parents Need to Know about Paraeducators?” in Exceptional Parent magazine.
Carol Rumack, MD, associate dean of graduate medical education and professor of Radiology, ranks as the 12th most influential person in radiology in the country, according to the publication “rt image.” Here’s a link to the Top 25.
Sept. 11
This academic year, Civil Engineering Professor Lynn E. Johnson will work with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Washington, D.C. on the project “Integrated Water Resources Sciences and Services” (IWRSS). The focus of the work is a new initiative in which primary federal water resources agencies are joining together to develop the next-generation water resources information system. The project will address a broad scope of water resources topics including the development and dissemination of information products on floods and droughts, hydrologic modeling and forecasting, and management responses to these critical events. Johnson will participate in the design and deployment of this new information system, including the enterprise GIS, and he will assist with the agencies and stakeholders involved in making effective use of the information. The project is supported by a grant from NOAA. Details of the IWRSS can be found at http://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/~cline/IWRSS/IWRSS_ROADMAP_v1.0.pdf.
Computer Science and Engineering Associate Professor Bogdan Chlebus attended the 28th annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing Conference from August 10 to 12 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where he presented a paper, “Fast Scalable Deterministic Consensus for Crash Failures.” See http://www.podc.org/podc2009/. During the same time, Bogdan also attended the 21st ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures and presented another paper “Locally Scalable Randomized Consensus for Synchronous Crash Failures.” See http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~spaa/2009/.
History Professor Tom Noel, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has been chosen by the American Institute of Architect (AIA) Colorado as the recipient of this year’s Contribution to the Built Environment by a Non-Architect Honor Award. Noel was chosen to receive the award by a jury comprising several local architects, based on nominations received from AIA members. The award recognizes outstanding accomplishments by a non-architect in Colorado who has demonstrated exemplary achievement in contributing to the quality of the built environment.
Civil Engineering Assistant Professor Jason Ren and his doctoral student Cathy Huang attended the 2009 Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) conference held July 26-28 at The University of Iowa, where Huang presented her poster: “Electricity Generation and Treatment of High Strength Animal Liquid Waste Using Microbial Fuel Cells.” See more information at AEESP: http://www.aeesp.org/.
Civil Engineering Assistant Professor Stephan Durham has received a grant award of $40,000 from the Colorado Department of Transportation for a new project: “Evaluation of Thin-Bonded Overlays with Anti-Icing and Anti-Skid Properties for Colorado Bridge Decks.” The project began July 22.
Sept. 8
Khushnur Dadabhoy has been chosen director of student life at the University of Colorado Denver Downtown Campus. Dadabhoy brings to her position a great wealth of knowledge involving student life, student engagement and student research. In her role, she will supervise the staff of the Office of Student Life, including student activities and events, clubs and organizations, leadership development, student government, health insurance-downtown. She will provide leadership in student engagement and lead the way for traditional activities such as convocation, the Distinguished Lecture Series, Women’s Leadership Conference and Welcome Week.
Also, among many other projects and initiatives she has already taken on, Dadabhoy will be the:
• advisor for Student Government Association (downtown).
• UC Denver ex-officio member of the Student Advisory Committee to the Auraria Board (SACAB).
• representative on Student Newspaper Advisory Board.
Marking the 20th year of public service, Stephen John Hartnett, chair of the department of communication has launched a 12-week writing workshop at the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility. Two Department of Communication majors, Linda Guthrie and Vlad Bogomolov, accompany Hartnett to the prison, where they serve as tutors.
Associate Professor of Philosophy David Hildebrand gave a keynote address, "Pragmatic Democracy: Inquiry, Imagination, and Experience" at the "The Second Nordic Pragmatism Conference: Pragmatism in Society and Democracy" in Reykjavík, Iceland, Aug. 27-29. The conference brought together philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, and educators from Iceland, Finland, the United States, England, Norway, Poland, Sweden and Switzerland to discuss pragmatism’s contribution to politics and political theory.
Associate Professor Mike Monsour from the Communication Department will have a book review published in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. He provides a critical review of the book The Compass of Friendship: Narratives, Identities, and Dialogues (Sage, 2009), written by Professor William Rawlins, one of the nation's top three scholars on friendships in the United States.