New! Staffing Update for the Dean's Office
The CLAS Dean's Office welcomes Michelle Howe, temporary Assistant to the Dean, to the staff of the college. With more than eight years of experience supporting executives and managing offices, she has already begun to get the Dean's Office in great shape for the spring semester. Michelle has replaced Rick Wilson, so please contact her with requests of the Dean's Office, as well as to schedule appointments with Dean Hageman. She can be reached at 303-556-2557 or via email.
New! Advising Office Welcomes New Staff
The CLAS Advising Office is thrilled to announce the appointments of two new staff members, Michelle Sanchez and Nadine Montoya.
Michelle comes to us with five years of academic advising experience from Arizona State University. She completed her masters degree in Education Leadership & Policy Studies: Higher & Post Secondary Education during that time period. As a 2002 alum from the Political Science Department with a minor in Spanish, she is no stranger to CLAS. Michelle’s strong background working with diverse student populations is among her many outstanding strengths, and we look forward to her sharing her background with the advising team to further foster a positive environment for our students. Michelle will be working with students with last names that begin with E-J. She will also be serving as the Academic Liaison for English, Modern Languages and Philosophy. She can be reached at 303-556-3396 or via email.
Nadine comes to us with over six years of service and administrative experience that has already demonstrated to be extremely valuable to the operation. Her extensive background in establishing, developing and maintaining a productive and efficient service operation will be instrumental in helping the CLAS Advising Office reach the next level of excellence for the college and especially for our students. Nadine’s background and experience in higher education has fostered a smooth transition into the position and has facilitated an immediate impact on the Advising Office. She can be reached at 303-556-4902 or via email.
New! Focus the Nation Teach-In Day
Jan. 31: Sustainability, Renewable Energy and Climate Change
All over the country on Jan. 31, professors and teachers are committing to spend a portion of their class period talking about climate change and how it relates to their specific area of expertise. For example, an economics professor could talk about the economic impacts of rising fuel prices, a geology professor could explain oil shale and a psychology professor could discuss denial of global climate shift. We encourage teachers to talk to students about how climate change relates to their area of knowledge and what it means to the industries that support it.
The idea behind this movement is to have one day of focus on the issues of climate change, renewable energy, and sustainability - one day where the US educates itself to the reality of these causes. If you do not teach on Thursday, Jan. 31 you could have your Teach-In day be any day that week.
To learn more about the Teach-In Day, please visit the Focus the Nation website, or contact Andrew Pattison.
New! Be an Expert for Media Interviews
New Web Site to be Launched Soon!
The Media and PR office is about to launch a new exciting Web site complete with an experts list. We want to make sure you are included on that list if you have interest in helping with media interviews.
Some of you may have already heard from the PR and Media office as you are already on their experts list. But we want to make sure no one is overlooked.
If you want to be included on this list, please send an email to Jacque Montgomery with the following information:
1. Your name
2. Your area of emphasis (that is what you likely would want to be tapped to comment on)
3. Your preferred contact method and information. (Do you want reporters to work through the media relations team to connect with you, or can they call your office or cell phone directly? Jacque, the new director of media and PR, is happy to support whichever method you are most comfortable with.)
New! Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program
From Aristotle and Plato to Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis H. Sullivan, students and their mentors have been collaborating to produce works of scholarly merit. The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), established in 1994, enhances undergraduate education by funding students engaged in research, scholarly, creative and entrepreneurial activities in collaboration with faculty at the downtown campus. Projects are either designed around the activities of a faculty member or designed independently by a student or team of students and endorsed by a faculty sponsor.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: MARCH 14, 2008
Forms can now be found online!
Anticipated award announcement will be on April 11, 2008 at our Research and Creative Activities Day. Approximately 20-30 awards will be available through UROP for fiscal year 2008-09 (July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009).
New! Summer Program in Quantitative Sciences at the Harvard School of Public Health
Share with your Students! May 31-June 29, 2008
If your students like mathematics and would like to learn how quantitative methods can be applied in the study of human health, then the Summer Program in Quantitative Sciences is for them. The Summer Program will introduce them to the fields of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Health & Social Behavior, and Environmental Health, and possibly convince them that this is the career direction they've been looking for.
Potential applicants should have an interest in public health as a career, working in academia, research centers, community organizations, governmental public health agencies, pharmaceutical companies, etc. Alumni of the Summer Program have earned or are enrolled in graduate programs in many campuses over the country.
Some aptitude and interest in quantitative methods preferred. However, prior exposure to statistics is not required. Room and board plus living stipend of approximately $1700/month is provided if accepted. Please email any questions to: biostat_diversity@hsph.harvard.edu.
(more information)
REMINDERS: Important Due Dates for Dean's Office Documents
The following items are due to Associate Dean Tammy Stone by the dates listed below. Please contact her if you have any questions.
Feb. 15: Nominations for faculty awards (research/creative activity, service, t/tt teaching and non-tt teaching)
Feb. 21: One-page nominating letter for Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award
March 1: Sabbatical applications
March 3: Nominating packets for outstanding graduate students
March 4: Complete dossiers for faculty awards (research/creative activity, service, t/tt teaching and non-tt teaching)
March 15: Complete dossier for Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award
CLAS in the Spotlight
Assistant Professor of English, Teague Bohlen, was interviewed on KCFR Public Radio, Colorado Matters, on Jan. 10 for his first novel, The Pull of the Earth, that won the 2007 Colorado Book Award for Best Fiction. (listen) Also, tune-in this Sunday, Jan. 27 to CW2, Channel 2 at 6:00 am when Bohlen will be interviewed on the community news show, AM Sunday.
Harvey Greenberg, Professor of Mathematical Sciences, was featured on the front page of the Denver Post's Politics in the West section on Jan. 2 regarding his math clinic course and its focus this year on the Democratic National Convention. (Full article)
Mathematical Sciences Professor Mike Jacobson is the Principal Investigator for a $2.9 million National Science Foundation grant. The program creates graduate fellowships in mathematics and the sciences (GK-12 Fellows) to build a learning community with middle school classrooms in Englewood and Jefferson County schools starting fall 2008. GK-12 Fellows will focus on many facets of education in the middle grades in cooperation with a science and mathematics teacher and with supervision by mathematics and science faculty from UC Denver. (more information)
Assistant Professor of Biology, Lisa Johansen, was awarded $3,500 from TriLink BioTechnologies to purchase DNA oligos (primers) to be used for undergraduate research and teaching applications.
Chemical and Engineering News highlighted Timberley Roane's research on microbial methods of chemical detoxification in their Dec. 10 issue. (Full article)
English Professor, Catherine Wiley, won a CU System 2008 Diversity and Excellence Award for her proposal, "Women Writing War."
Jake Adam York, Associate Professor of English, has had his second book of poetry, A Murmuration of Starlings, published by Southern Illinois University Press. He has 11 readings scheduled throughout the United States in the coming months, including a local date scheduled for March 1 when he'll be reading at Cameron Church in Denver at 4:00 pm, followed by a reception at Book Buffs.
Events
Sally: A One Woman Play
Wednesday, Jan. 30
7:30 pm
Eugenia Rawls Courtyard Theatre
King Center, Auraria Campus
FREE
Co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Media and the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, author and playwright Sandra Cecilia Seaton and company will workshop and perform a staged reading based on the life of Sally Hemings at 7:30 pm on Jan. 30.
Sally is a one-woman drama that explores the thoughts and feelings of Sally Hemings throughout her long relationship with Thomas Jefferson. Previously Seaton collaborated with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer William Bolcom on the operatic song cycle, From the Diary of Sally Hemings, which had its world premiere at the Library of Congress, on March 16, 2001. Writing in the Washington Post, reviewer Ronald Broun said that "Bolcom creates a complex, atmospheric musical biosphere for the turbulence of Hemings' alleged relationship with Thomas Jefferson. Playwright Sandra Seaton's text has subtle, penetrating power, and mezzo-soprano Florence Quivar's storytelling melded words and music with convincing, always graceful ease." (more information)
IN THIS ISSUE:
Staffing Update for CLAS Dean's Office
Advising Welcomes New Staff
Focus the Nation
Media Interviews
UROP Applications
Harvard Summer Program
Due Date Reminders
CLAS in the Spotlight
Events
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