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Lynne Fox, education librarian at the Anschutz Medical Campus Health Sciences Library, received the Bernice M. Hetzner Award for Excellence in Academic Health Sciences Librarianship at the recent annual meeting of the MidContinental Chapter of the Medical Library Association. The honor recognizes an exceptional career of accomplishment and service. Fox teaches classes in informatics and evidence-based practice. An accomplished librarian, author, editor and instructor, Fox also currently is a member of Thornton's City Council. ...

Facilities Management at the University of Colorado Denver has promoted Mike Barden to director of facilities projects. Barden had been the manager of major projects and assistant director of facilities projects for nearly every new building or major renovation on both campuses, and also had been the university's state buildings delegate, requiring him to be actively involved in contracts, amendments, change order, change order proposals and pay applications for major capital projects. ... John (Jack) M. Westfall, M.D., MPH, is the co-director of the Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute and Director of the Community Translation – Community Engagement and Research Program. Westfall is an associate professor of family medicine and Associate Dean for Rural Health at the University of Colorado School of Medicine who has been involved in the CCTSI since it was created in 2008. He will direct the Community Translational Research pillar program of the CCTSI, overseeing the community engagement key functions and organizing the innovative Partnership of Academicians and Communities for Translation (PACT) and ensuring community engagement and public trust in our research and training endeavors. ... Michael Tavel, AIA, senior instructor of architecture studies at the University of Colorado Denver, has developed and is teaching an after-school program for elementary age children called "The Green Neighborhood Class." The emphasis is environmental literacy learned through field trips and hands-on experiences. Tavel is volunteering his time at his children's elementary school, Academia Marie Sandoval, a dual language, Montessori Denver Public School in the Highland Neighborhood. ...

Anu Ramaswami, professor of environmental and sustainability engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Colorado Denver and director of the Center for Sustainable Infrastructure Systems, recently presented on "Innovations in Greenhouse Gas Inventory Methods at the City-Scale" at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's 19th International Emission Inventory Conference in San Antonio, Texas. ...Frederick J. Suchy, M.D., will join the faculty of the department of pediatrics, section of pediatric gastroenterology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and become the chief research officer of The Children's Hospital on Dec. 1. He also will serve as associate dean for child health research. Suchy currently is chair of the department of pediatrics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital, where he has worked for 13 years. ... John C. Miller, professor emeritus, languages and cultures at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, recently returned to Gaziantep University, Turkey, under a U.S. State Department English Language Fellow grant. He will teach American literature and culture in addition to providing English training for regional teacher groups in cooperation with the Turkish Ministry of Education.