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Komara Dass Johnson

Ann Komara, associate professor and chair of landscape architecture at CU Denver, wrote an essay, “Water Events: Flow and Collection in Skyline Park,” for a special issue of Landscape Journal examining the influence of Lawrence Halprin on the philosophy and practice of Landscape Architecture. The park was a significant component of the Downtown Denver Urban Renewal Authority’s work in 1970 for the revitalization of a 37-block area in the heart of the once thriving downtown. The article includes images of those early renderings. … Carol Dass, instructor, Department of Visual and Performing Arts at UCCS, will present “Mother: Photographs by Carol S. Dass” through May 19 at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. For more about the exhibit, visit http://www.csfineartscenter.org/Exhibitions/dass.asp… Heather Johnson, assistant professor at the CU Denver School of Education and Human Development, has been invited by the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction to present her refereed paper, “Designing covariation tasks to support students’ reasoning about quantities involved in rate of change,” at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom this July. The forum in Oxford is designed to promote reflection, collaboration, exchange and dissemination of ideas on the teaching and learning of mathematics, from primary to university level.  At CU Denver, Johnson teaches mathematics for elementary teachers as well as curriculum and methods in secondary mathematics. … Senga Negundi-Fittz, lecturer in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at UCCS, had several pieces of her work on display at the Thomas Erben Gallery, New York City. The exhibit, “Senga Nengudi: Performances 1976-81,” features photographs of Negundi-Fittz as well as her sculptures made of sand-filled and stretched pantyhose. The exhibit was recently reviewed in the New York Times and is available at http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/15/arts/design/senga-nengudi-performances-1976-81.html?emc=eta1