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Jian Yang, a CU Denver Business School professor of finance, has been recognized for his manuscript regarding real estate investments by the American Real Estate Society (ARES). His work, “Price Jump Risk on the U.S. Housing Market,” was selected as the best in its category. Yang’s research interests in investment focus on empirical asset pricing, monetary and fiscal policy impacts on financial markets, portfolio management, risk management, futures markets, CDS markets, and market efficiency. Yang will be recognized in the Fall 2013 ARES Newsletter and at an awards ceremony at ARES 2014 National Meetings in San Diego, Calif. This award includes a $1,500 prize. … Hans Morgenthaler, associate professor of architecture at CU Denver, presented a paper titled "Stylistic Trajectories Through Colorado's Architecture" in a panel on "Cities in Change: Designing Denver" at the 106th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, Aug. 8-10 in Denver. … Tony Mazzeo, senior instructor of landscape architecture at CU Denver and principal at GroundWorks Design, is getting recognition for the project FR8scape, an outdoor courtyard that GroundWorks designed for the mixed-use Taxi Development, an old industrial complex in North Denver. In addition to being featured in the summer issue of “Modern in Denver,” there is an article, “FR8scape: Former Freight Yard Transformed into Green Gathering Space,” in the weblog “Inhabitat: Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building.” … Daphne Greenwood, professor in the Department of Economics and director of the Colorado Center for Policy Studies at UCCS, presented “Bound for the Berkshires: Economic Development in a Special Place,” Aug. 21 at the American Institute for Economic Research’s Harwood Library Auditorium in Great Barrington, Mass. Greenwood is a former AIER summer fellow. … Dan Theodorescu, director of the University of Colorado Cancer Center, has been elected to a three-year term on the board of the Association of American Cancer Institutes. The group represents 95 academic and free-standing cancer research centers in the United States. … Stephen Cucchiara, assistant director, Office of Student Activities at UCCS, published “Commoditization Versus Differentiation: How We Market Our Universities” in the June 28 edition of “The Evolllution,” an online newspaper devoted to higher education issues. See the article at http://www.evolllution.com/institutional_operations/commoditization-differentiation-market-universities/