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Dassanowsky Mäkelä Tyler Piatkowski Marshall

Robert Dassanowsky, professor in the departments of Visual and Performing and Languages and Cultures at CU Denver, was elected to voting membership in the European Film Academy in recognition of significant central European cinema scholarship and film work. The transnational organization presented the European “Academy Awards” Dec. 7 in Berlin. … Taisto Mäkelä, associate professor of Architecture and director of Finnish Initiatives at CU Denver, traveled to Piran, Slovenia, to speak at the 31st Piran Days of Architecture Conference, where he also served on the Prianesi Prize Jury that presents the distinguished international Piranesi Award for recent works from Central European architects. Mäkelä also gave a lecture, Architecture and Cultural Identity in Finland, at the University of Ljubljana. … Several CU School of Medicine faculty members attended last month's American Neurological Association (ANA) 138th Annual Meeting in New Orleans, La. CU participants Kenneth Tyler, Amy Brooks-Kayal and Steven Ringel also serve as ANA Board members. As part of the conference, Tyler had the opportunity to meet President Bill Clinton (see photo) who delivered the  keynote address regarding health care policy. Clinton spoke about the need for Americans to recognize and adopt better systems, particularly when it comes to the administrative costs of health care. He suggested working through the kinks in the Affordable Care Act, reducing health-care overhead, and using some of the money saved to fund critical research. …  Dan Piatkowski,  a Ph.D. candidate in Design and Planning at CU Denver and NSF IGERT Fellow, and Wesley Marshall, assistant professor of Civil Engineering, have co-authored the article, "'New' versus 'Old' Urbanism: A comparative analysis of travel behavior in large-scale New Urbanist communities and older, more established neighborhoods in Denver, Colorado." The article was published in” Urban Design International.” …  A book launch for “Peace From Within: Community-Based Peace Building in Africa” will be Feb. 25 at Boulder Bookstore. Contributors from CU Boulder are: Laura DeLuca, anthropology lecturer and director of the Global Seminar Tanzania and Global Inquiry Uganda; Mara Goldman, assistant professor of geography and faculty research associate with the Environment and Society Program, Institute of Behavioral Science; Alphonse Keasley, assistant vice chancellor Office of Equity, Diversity and Community Engagement, faculty in the President's Leadership class, and director of the Global Seminar South Africa; and Ajume Wingo, associate professor of philosophy and director of the Center for Values.