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Jokerst named CU Boulder police chief

Doreen Jokerst has been named the next chief of police for the CU Boulder Police Department after a national search, campus officials announced Friday. Jokerst, a commander with the Parker Police...
Bailey named SCWCC Business Leader of the Year

Bailey named SCWCC Business Leader of the Year

Tatiana Bailey, director, UCCS Economic Forum, was recognized as the 2018 Business Leader of the Year during the Southern Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce Accolades Awards Luncheon Aug. 21 at the...
Fox receives two national awards on same day

Fox receives two national awards on same day

University of Colorado Boulder chemical and biological engineering Assistant Professor Jerome M. Fox won two prestigious national awards this spring.
Smith

Smith returns to alma mater as associate vice chancellor of research

Jessi L. Smith, current psychology professor at Montana State University, will join UCCS as the Associate Vice Chancellor of Research Aug. 15. She will be the first full-time person to serve in this...
Kauerz joins school of education

Kauerz joins school of education

The University of Colorado Denver’s School of Education & Human Development (SEHD) announced that early learning specialist Kristie Kauerz, EdD, is joining the faculty and will bring the National...
Sirangelo

Sirangelo to join CU Boulder Engineering

Mark Sirangelo, who just concluded his career as the head of aerospace giant Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Space Systems, is joining the University of Colorado Boulder as an entrepreneur-in-residence...
Chen

Chen talks immigration

Ming H. Chen, associate professor at Colorado Law, directs the CU Immigration Law & Policy Program and serves on the Colorado Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
Smith to retire after nearly 50 years of nursing education

Smith to retire after nearly 50 years of nursing education

After nearly 50 years of practice, academia, and teaching nursing and other health care professionals, Nancy Smith, dean, Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences,...
Zunger

Zunger wins prestigious energy medal

Research Professor Alex Zunger of the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute joins the ranks of former President Jimmy Carter as a recipient of the prestigious Karl W. Böer Solar Energy Medal of...
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Trego chosen as Distinguished Nurse Scholar-in-Residence

Lori Trego Lori Trego of the College of Nursing recently was selected as the 2018–2019 Distinguished Nurse Scholar-in-Residence at the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) . During her time as a NAM...
Hanenberg begins term as president of American College Health Association

Hanenberg begins term as president of American College Health Association

Stephanie Hanenberg, executive director, Health and Wellness, will serve as president for the American College Health Association for the 2018-19 year. She began her term June 1 during the 2018...
Kroll

Kroll elected to American Philosophical Society

Professor of Chinese joins group whose membership includes U.S. presidents, Darwin, Edison, Curie and scores of Nobel laureates
Mark McConkie

In memoriam: Mark McConkie

Memorial services for Mark McConkie, 69, professor emeritus in the School of Public Affairs, will be at 11 a.m., June 25, at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 150 Pine Ave. Colorado...
Plunkett

Plunkett to direct CU News Corps program

Former Denver Post editorial page editor Chuck Plunkett will join the University of Colorado Boulder this fall as director of CU News Corps, a program of the College of Media, Communication and...
In memoriam: Ronald M. Fitz

In memoriam: Ronald M. Fitz

Ronald M. Fitz of Colorado Springs died suddenly at his Colorado Springs home on May 6 at the age of 64.
Barbour

Barbour wins Norbert Freinkel Award

Linda Barbour, MD, MSPH, professor of medicine, obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine (SOM) will receive the 2018 Norbert Freinkel Award next month at the...
Bagchi

Bagchi chosen for Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

At the prospect of meeting her role model, Rushita Bagchi is at a loss for words. Selected through a national competition to attend the prestigious Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting this summer, Bagchi...
Epperson

Epperson named chair of psychiatry at CU School of Medicine

C. Neill Epperson, MD, an expert in women’s behavioral health, particularly the relationship of hormones and the brain, has been named chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of...
Faculty team receives $1 million NSF grant for indigenous lands program

Faculty team receives $1 million NSF grant for indigenous lands program

A team of faculty from the College of Engineering and Applied Science and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has received a $1 million National Science Foundation (NSF) S-STEM award to support...
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Spain Bradley receives OZY Educator Award

Anna Spain Bradley Anna Spain Bradley, associate professor at the University of Colorado Law School at CU Boulder, has received a 2018 OZY Educator Award, given to five educators across the country...
Ahn, Luger inducted into National Academy of Sciences

Ahn, Luger inducted into National Academy of Sciences

Pioneering biochemists Natalie Ahn and Karolin Luger have been inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, an honor that recognizes "distinguished and continuing achievements in original research...

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