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Binswanger Krueger Bell Skiba

A team from the CU Denver School of Education and Human Development (SEHD), led by counseling faculty member Farah Ibrahim, shared information at the Rocky Mountain Association of Counselor Education and Supervision in Wyoming. Ibrahim, who submitted the topic proposal, was joined for the presentation by SEHD colleagues Edward Cannon, Diane Estrada, Troyann Gentile, Carlos Hipolito-Delgado, Shruti Poulsen and Scott Schaefle. Their session focused on changes in curriculum to address social justice, advocacy and cultural competence for educating future licensed-professional counselors in three tracks: clinical mental health, couples and family therapy, and school counseling. …  A research team led by Ingrid Binswanger, associate professor, School of Medicine, recently published findings that death rates in prisons from smoking-related illnesses are higher than in the general U.S. population. The researchers also looked at whether smoking bans in prison are linked to reductions in smoking-related deaths. Co-authors on “Prison tobacco control policies and deaths from smoking in United States prisons: population based retrospective analysis” include CU Denver Assistant Professor Patrick M. Krueger Health and Behavioral Sciences; and Shane Mueller, Ph.D. student in Health and Behavioral Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Published in the “British Medical Journal,” the research shows the most common causes of death related to smoking among people in prison were lung cancer, ischemic heart disease, other heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, and chronic airways obstruction. … Joseph Saseen, professor at CU Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, recently received the 2014 Education Award from the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP). The award recognizes a member who has made substantial and outstanding contributions to clinical pharmacy education at either the undergraduate or the postgraduate level. Saseen also is a professor at the CU School of Medicine. … Pavel Kozhevnikov, lecturer in the Department of Languages and Cultures at UCCS, recently was nominated for the Russian national awards, Poet of the Year and Writer of the Year, in recognition of his short stories and poems written in Russian. Winners of the awards will be announced in April at ceremonies in Moscow. Kozhevnikov has taught Russian in Colorado Springs since 1992. …  Megan Bell, director of the University Center at UCCS, recently published “Strategies for Successful Organizational Change” in “The Bulletin,” the magazine of the Associations of College Unions International. Bell provided an overview of current topics in change management and suggested strategies. Bell’s article was published in the Aug. 2014 edition. ... Diane Skiba, CU College of Nursing, has been selected as an honorary fellow of the Academy of Nursing Education, National League of Nursing (NLN). Candidates for this honor are evaluated on their contributions to innovative teaching and/or learning strategies; nursing education research; faculty development activities; academic leadership; promotion of public policy that advances nursing education; and/or collaborative educational, practice, or community partnerships. Skiba was inducted on Sept. 19 at the NLN Summit.