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Scholes

Hartnett

Two University of Colorado Colorado Springs representatives traveled to the White House last week to meet with officials in the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Peg Bacon, provost, and Jeff Scholes, instructor in the department of philosophy, discussed UCCS involvement with President Obama’s Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge for the upcoming academic year. … David Nelson, associate professor in the communication department at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, recently received a bronze award in the commercial category of the 32nd Annual Telly Awards Competition. Nelson received the award for “Jigsaw Puzzle,” a 30-second commercial about UCCS. … Margarita Bianco, Bryn Harris, Dorothy Garrison-Wade and Nancy Leech of the University of Colorado Denver’s School of Education and Human Development collaborated on “Gifted Girls: Gender Bias in Gifted Referrals” published in the Roeper Review, Vol. 33 Issue 3, 170-181. The school’s Erin Barton worked with others on “An investigation of circle time for children with autism: A reminder of the importance of individualization. Young Exceptional Children,” 14, 2-21. … University of Colorado Denver Health Sciences Library Director Jerry Perry is featured in a book recently published by the American Library Association. “Working in the Virtual Stacks: The New Library and Information Science” is by Laura Townsend Kane, University of South Carolina School of Medicine Library. Kane interviewed Perry for the book about a year ago and a spotlight section is included in the “Librarians as Administrators” chapter. … The University of Colorado Denver College of Architecture and Planning's Colorado Center for Community Development (CCCD) was awarded a 2011 Mobilization and Planning grant from LiveWell Colorado on behalf of the metro area neighborhoods of Globeville, Elyria and Swansea. The grant funds the first year of a seven-year project designed to sustainably increase healthy eating and active living in the target communities. Justin Park, CCCD’s community engagement and communications coordinator, will be the project coordinator. … University of Colorado Denver English Associate Professor Rick VanDeWeghe's article, "A Literacy Education for our Times," appeared as the "EJ in Focus" article in English Journal, the professional journal for secondary English/Language Arts teachers published by the National Council of Teachers of English. This issue focuses on ethics in the English classroom and VanDeWeghe's article reflects on the ethical dimensions of teaching English in the context of the new common core state standards for English language arts and literacy that have been adopted by nearly every state in the country. … Associate Professor and University of Colorado Denver College Liberal Arts and Sciences communications department Chair Stephen John Hartnett’s essay “Communication, Social Justice and Joyful Commitment,” published in The Western Journal of Communication, Vol. 74, No. 1 (January-February 2010), has been chosen to receive the National Communication Association’s (NCA) 2011 Golden Anniversary Monograph Award. This is the NCA’s annual award for the best journal article published in the preceding year in a communication journal. The award will be presented in November at the annual NCA convention in New Orleans.