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Sherry Berka
Sherry Berka, program administrator for the medicine residency training program at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, was one of five recipients of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) inaugural GME Program Coordinator Excellence Award. The award recognizes outstanding administrators who assist program directors, help manage residency programs and prepare documents needed for site visits. Berka and the other award recipients will receive a check for $1,000. ...
Kevin Krizek
... Kevin J. Krizek, associate professor of planning and design at the University of Colorado Denver, and director of the Active Communities / Transportation (ACT) Research Group and director of the doctorate program in design and planning, co-authored the manuscript "Health Impact Assessment (HIA) for Planners: What Tools Are Useful?" in the Journal of Planning Literature. It is available for viewing in the faculty publications display (third floor, UC Denver Building) and available here.
David Tracer
... David Tracer, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Colorado Denver, is one of 14 researchers participating in a study on markets, religion community size and the evolution of fairness and punishment. The study was published in the March 19 issue of the journal Science. Tracer carried out a trio of behavioral experiments among the Au of Papua New Guinea showing people in small-scale societies act cooperatively because these societies are frequently kin-based, and repeated interactions with the same people promote reciprocity.
Laura Summers
... Laura Summers, an assistant professor at the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Colorado Denver, recently was appointed chair of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) Educator Pre-Service Task Force, a newly created national committee. The task force charge is to develop materials to assist in training pre-service teachers and administrators about school librarians and school library programs.