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CU Denver’s Rooks, Steed named Fulbright Scholars

CU Denver’s Rooks, Steed named Fulbright Scholars

Ronica Rooks, PhD, and Elizabeth Steed, PhD, both received prestigious Fulbright awards for the 2019-2020 school year, which will enable them to conduct research and build relationships...
Giles

Giles wins Outstanding Women in Business Award

There’s extra excitement at the Fitzsimons Innovation Community this week, thanks to a major honor for April Giles. The Denver Business Journal named her the winner of the prestigious Outstanding...
Six UCCS faculty, staff selected for 2019-20 cohort of CU’s Excellence in Leadership Program

Six UCCS faculty, staff selected for 2019-20 cohort of CU’s Excellence in Leadership Program

Six UCCS employees, split evenly between faculty and staff, will spend the academic year learning how to become more effective leaders who can successfully address the key challenges of a dynamic...
Community welcomes new deans of Engineering and Applied Science and Nursing and Health Sciences

Community welcomes new deans of Engineering and Applied Science and Nursing and Health Sciences

Faculty, staff and community members welcomed not one, but two new deans to UCCS during a reception at UCCS Downtown on August 8.
After two decades, Barton leaves administrative post — and legacy — behind

After two decades, Barton leaves administrative post — and legacy — behind

During her 22 years as associate dean of Clinical and Community Affairs, Professor Amy Barton spearheaded the creation of the University of Colorado College of Nursing’s clinical enterprise.
Professor Medema

Goodbye, Professor Medema

“Quality, only and always.” That is the advice and the legacy that Steven Medema, PhD, professor of economics and director of the University Honors and Leadership Program (UHL), leaves behind after...
Kelly Fox

Fox named CU Boulder executive vice chancellor and COO

Chancellor Phil DiStefano announced today that he has promoted Kelly Fox to executive vice chancellor and chief operating officer.
Turetsky to become new INSTAAR director

Turetsky to become new INSTAAR director

Ecologist and carbon cycle scientist Merritt Turetsky has been named the director of INSTAAR and will step into her new role in January. Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation Terri Fiez...
Keasley, Hayworth to be honored for contributions to the arts

Keasley, Hayworth to be honored for contributions to the arts

Two CU Boulder administrators are among four local citizens who will be recognized for their contributions to the arts in Boulder County at the sixth annual Dairy Arts Center Honors event on Sept. 6...
Mikayla Greenfield

Operational excellence earns Greenfield Employee of the Quarter

Mikayla Greenfield is all about efficiency. But it isn’t just her commitment to streamlining operations in Facilities Services that earned her Employee of the Quarter for April to June of 2019: it’s...
Wei

Wei Named as History Colorado’s State Historian

On Colorado Day, Aug. 1, Dr. William Wei, Ph.D., professor of history at the University of Colorado in Boulder, will begin his one-year position as the official State Historian and leader of History...
Shay

Shay to step down in 2020

Provost Russell Moore today announced that Robert Shay, Dean of the College of Music, will take a leave of absence to continue medical treatment and then attenuate his tenure as dean, stepping down...
Draper

Draper to retire from vice chancellor role

Senior Vice Chancellor and CFO Kelly Fox announced today that Frances Draper will be retiring from her role as vice chancellor for Strategic Relations and Communications, effective July 15. Associate...
Stepanovich

Stepanovich named executive director of Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship

Amie Stepanovich, a nationally recognized expert in domestic surveillance, cybersecurity, and privacy law, has been named executive director of the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and...
Treyball

Treyball a 2019 Nightingale Luminary Award winner

​Mona Pearl Treyball, PhD, hoists a 20-plus-pound trophy up in the air for a guest to see. For the nursing professor, the bronze statue of a kneeling Florence Nightingale cradling a patient in her...
Lynch

In memoriam: Carol Lynch

Carol B. Lynch is Dean Emerita at the University of Colorado at Boulder where she was Professor of Ecological and Evolutionary Biology, and Fellow of the Institute for Behavioral Genetics, having...
Rey

Rey wins Blavatnik Award

The Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences named theoretical physicist and JILA Fellow Ana Maria Rey one of three Laureates for the Blavatnik National Awards for Young...
Haverly

Haverly garners prestigious honor

The Association of University Architects (AUA) recently honored Campus Architect and Director of Planning and Design Bill Haverly with the organization’s Distinguished Service Award, placing Haverly...
Steffes

Steffes earns Employee of the Quarter nod

When Jesie Steffes’ clients fill out a satisfaction survey after meeting with her for counseling appointments, they’re often writing the same thing: “I wouldn’t be in school today without Jesie’s...
Smith

Smith named senior associate dean for administration and finance at School of Medicine

Brian T. Smith has been named Senior Associate Dean for Administration and Finance for the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Executive Director of CU Medicine, effective August 1.
Braun, a former NASA chief technologist, talks moon and Mars

Braun, a former NASA chief technologist, talks moon and Mars

The dean of CU Boulder's College of Engineering & Applied Science is a former NASA chief technologist.
Valentine

Valentine named assistant vice chancellor for marketing and communications

Chris Valentine, the director of marketing and communications for one of the region’s largest health care providers, will be the assistant vice chancellor for marketing and communications at UCCS. He...
Bishop

In memoriam: Regent Emeritus Tillie Bishop

University of Colorado Regent Emeritus Tilman “Tillie” Bishop, died Sunday, June 16, 2019, in Grand Junction. He was 86.
In memoriam: Georgia Lesh-Laurie

In memoriam: Georgia Lesh-Laurie

Chancellor Emerita Georgia Lesh-Laurie, PhD, passed away May 9 at the age of 80. Lesh-Laurie was chancellor of the University of Colorado Denver from 1995 to 2003.

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