New! Spring Open House: Mar. 1
As a reminder, this year's Spring Open House is scheduled for Saturday, Mar. 1. To learn more about the Open House, please view this document. (Room layout).
Please contact Barbara Edwards, Assistant Vice Chancellor, Enrollment Management, with questions.
New! Chancellor's Employee Development Program
New Online Application Process
The Chancellor’s Employee Development Program, the goal of which is to increase job skills and opportunities for advancement by funding awards for professional development activities, now has an online application process.
Full or part-time classified and exempt professional employees are eligible to receive funding for job-related and professionally enriching workshops, courses, seminars and conferences. Awards may cover travel (in- or out-of-state), registration fees, lodging, meals and materials.
For further program details and the new application process, please visit the right-hand side of the HR Web site.
New! CLAS Announces New College ACT (Advancing Curricula and Teaching) Grant
Application Deadline: Apr. 18
The Dean and Associate Deans of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) at the University of Colorado Denver are pleased to announce the 2008-09 CLAS Advancing Curricula and Teaching (ACT) grant. CLAS ACT funding is designated to further develop a campus environment which supports and encourages approaches to teaching and learning that advance goals of the college’s strategic plan.
(More information)
New! Research & Creative Activities Symposium
Friday, Apr. 11, 2008
10:00am - 3:00pm
North Classroom Atrium
http://www.cudenver.edu/researchday
All UCD undergraduate and graduate students on the downtown Denver campus, and undergraduates at the Anschutz campus who are engaged in faculty-mentored research, creative and entrepreneurial activities are encouraged to participate. Student exhibits include poster presentations, interactive & streaming media, performances, art and photography exhibits, architectural models, literary readings, etc
Student applications will be accepted through Mar. 28. Students must apply online on the Symposium website listed above.
Nominate your top students for the Outstanding Student Research and Creative Activities Awards.
Two graduate students and two undergraduates will be selected to receive $250 and will be invited to present their scholarly work at the morning general session. Students must be nominated by faculty to be eligible. Nominations will be accepted through Mar. 31 . (Nomination Form)
Contact Lissa Gallagher with questions.
New! UCDenver Domain Name
Beginning in April, the University of Colorado Denver will convert to a new computer domain name: UCDenver.edu.
What does this mean to me?
Starting at the end of April, all UC Denver faculty, staff and students will be converted to an email address that will end with UCDenver.edu. Our primary website address will change to UCDenver.edu. administration.ucdenver.edu will no longer be available after August 2008.
Anyone typing in the old e-mail addresses or Internet addresses (other than administration.ucdenver.edu) will be forwarded to the new address through June 2010. (More information)
New! Copper Nickel
Issue 9 Release
Copper Nickel, a journal of art and literature published at the University of Colorado Denver, will celebrate the release of its ninth issue on Friday, Mar. 7. A public reception for the issue, its editors and contributors begins at 7pm at Matter Studios, 2134 Market Street in Denver. This event is free and open to the public.
Copper Nickel’s ninth issue features photography by Bill Adams, prose works by Molly Giles, Andrew S. Bodine, Wm. Anthony Connolly, Nate Stone, and Snezana Zabic, and poems by Anne Heide, Meagan Wilson, Oni Buchanan, John Major, and Emily Cervantes.
The issue will be on sale for $10, a discount off the newsstand price of $12.
This event will also serve as a reception for writer Ander Monson, who will be visiting Denver as a guest of Copper Nickel. The author of a book of poems, a novel in stories, and an award-winning book of essays, as well as an influential editor, Monson will read from his work on Wednesday March 5th at 6pm in the St. Cajetan’s Student Center on the Auraria Higher Education Campus. That event is also free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Jake Adam York by e-mail or by phone at 720-289-5487, or visit Copper Nickel's Web site.
CLAS Technology in Teaching Showcase and Discussion
Monday, Mar. 3
Don't miss this opportunity to see how some of your colleagues are using technology to enhance their students' learning experience. And if you've used wikis, blogs, write boards, student-created videos, or other technology to inspire students, please come to share what worked and what didn't. Dr. Brenda J. Allen will moderate. Panel presenters will include David Hildebrand, Michelle Comstock and Michelle Carpenter. Date: Monday, March 3
Time: 9:30 - 11:30 am
Location: Chancellor's Conf. Room, 14th Floor, Lawrence St. Center Click here to RSVP
Nominate Grad Students for Scholarship
Nominations Due Apr. 1
The UC Denver downtown campus offers two scholarship opportunities to our students: the undergraduate Alumni General Scholarship and the Alumni Association Graduate Scholarship. Both programs award $2000 per academic year to each scholarship winner ($1000 each semester upon verification of their continuing eligibility).
Only one graduate scholarship per college is awarded at this time, and requires faculty to nominate deserving students to Dean Hageman, who will make the final choice. Undergraduate students apply directly to the Alumni Office and compete for multiple awards.
Please send your nominations of students for the graduate scholarship to Jill Hutchison in the Dean's Office by Apr. 1 for the 2008-9 award.
Help Your Students Succeed
Academic Early Alert
Academic Early Alert is the university’s approach of identifying and contacting students in need of assistance early in the semester. We are all partners in the process, so your participation is crucial!
Faculty will be asked to log into the system starting the fifth week of the semester (Monday, Feb. 25 – Monday, Mar. 10). Alerts will be sent to academic advisors who will contact the students during the seventh week of the semester. Upon making initial contact with the students, the advisors will link students to appropriate campus resources. More information and instructions will follow by email.
For further information contact John Lanning at 303-556-6363. (information)
Remaining Dean Candidate Visits
Please plan to attend one of the open forums
All faculty, staff and students are invited and encouraged to attend.
Dr. Scott Wood
Location: XMBA auditorium, CU Building
Presentation: 02/25/08 – 2:00pm-3:30pm
Meet and Greet: 02/25/08 – 3:30pm-4:30pm
Dr. Yolanda Neimann
Location: XMBA auditorium, CU Building
Presentation: 02/27/08 – 2:00pm-3:30pm
Meet and Greet: 02/27/08 – 3:30pm-4:30pm
Visit the Provost's Web page to read about the candidates.
2007-2008 CLAS Research Innovation Seed Program (CRISP)
Mar. 3 Deadline
CRISP grant proposals are invited from all tenured and tenure-track faculty to support research activities that will result in applications for external funding. Details of the program, submission requirements, allowed expenses, and required activities are included in the attached document, and the deadline for submission is Mar. 3, 2008. The college has committed $100,000 this year to support this program, which was developed by Dean Hageman, Associate Dean Brenda Allen, and Associate Dean Mary Coussons-Read.
Drafts of the program announcement were reviewed and supported by the CLAS Leadership Team, the CLAS BPC, the CLAS Council and the CLAS Chairs. The college anticipates making approximately 5 awards in each track of the program. Note that an essential aspect of the CRISP application is developing and documenting a relationship with the Office of Sponsored Programs to identify potential funding sources, and Mary Coussons-Read is glad to facilitate this process.
Please contact Mary Coussons-Read with any questions you might have regarding the announcement, the program or submission.
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. 21: One-page nominating letter for Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award
Mar. 1: Sabbatical applications
Mar. 4: Complete dossiers for faculty awards (research/creative activity, service, t/tt teaching and non-tt teaching)
Mar. 15: Complete dossier for Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award
Apr. 1: Graduate student nominations due to Jill Hutchison for the Alumni Association Graduate Scholarship
CLAS in the Spotlight
On Feb. 14, CBS News 4 interviewed Chemistry Professor Doris Kimbrough on how cold affects the body: "Cold Hits Humans Hard."
Associate Professor of Psychology Mary Coussons-Read interviewed with 850 AM (KOA) news radio about the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences partnership with Smart-Girl, a non-profit, research-based organization that focuses on enrichment and prevention programs for adolescent girls, to form the UC Denver Smart-Girl Leadership Institute. The story is expected to run one day this week.
Events
Biology Spring Seminar Series
Diana Tomback and Kathryn Chipman, Dept. of Biology
Friday, Feb. 22
Noon - 1:30 pm
NC 1539
Seminar Title: "Invasive forest pathogens, climate change and implications for treeline dynamics"
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Stephen C. Flink, UC Denver
Monday, Feb. 25
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
CU Building, Room 656
Seminar Title: "An Interpretation of a Theorem of Dickson in PG (3,q)
Biology Spring Seminar Series
Jennifer Ramp Neale, Denver Botanical Gardens
Friday, Feb. 29
Noon - 1:30 pm
NC 1539
Seminar Title: "Using genetic data in the conservation and restoration of native species: a case study from California's vernal pools "
UC Denver Open House
Saturday, Mar. 1
11:30 am - 2:30 pm
Auraria Event Center
Jake Adam York, Associate Professor of English
Reading and Reception for his book, A Murmuration of Starlings
Saturday, Mar. 1
4:00 pm
Cameron Church (1600 S. Pearl Street, Denver) followed by a reception at Book Buffs
CLAS Technology in Teaching Showcase and Discussion
Monday, Mar. 3
9:30 - 11:30 am
Chancellor's Conf. Room, 14th Floor, Lawrence St. Center
Click here to RSVP
Computational Mathematics Colloquium
Kristian Sandberg, CU Boulder
Monday, Mar. 3
11:00 am - 12:00 noon
CU Building, Room 626
Seminar Title: "Mathematical Methods in Seismic Imaging"
Operations Research Seminar
Phantipa Thipwiwatpotjana and Weldon Lodwick
Wednesday, Mar. 5
1:00 - 2:00 pm
Seminar Title: "Algorithm for solving optimization problems with Interval Valued Probability Measure"
Biology Spring Seminar Series
Mary Reyland, Anschutz Medical Campus
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
Friday, Mar. 7
Noon - 1:30 pm
NC 1539
Seminar Title: "Protein kinase C delta and apoptosis: Location, location, location "
Medical Narrative: Critical Perspectives on Storytelling
Health and Humanities Colloquia, sponsored by the Colorado Center for the Public Humanities
Wednesday, Mar. 12
2:30 - 4:00 pm
Tivoli 640, UCD Downtown Denver Campus
**lunch provided**
Contact Dr. Amy Vidali to RSVP, receive copies of the readings, and reserve your lunch! (303-556-4765)
See Colorado Center for Public Humanities Web site for more information.
Biology Spring Seminar Series
Rob Guralnick, CU Boulder
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Friday, Mar. 14
Noon - 1:30 pm
NC 1539
Seminar Title: "Integrating phylogenetic and ecological niche modeling approaches in historical biogeography research"
Biology Spring Seminar Series
Mary Coussons-Read, Dept. of Psychology
Friday, Mar. 21
Noon - 1:30 pm
NC 1539
Seminar Title: "Neural-Immune Interactions in Human Pregnancy "
IN THIS ISSUE:
Spring Open House
Chancellor's Employee Development Program
CLAS ACT Grant
Research & Creative Activities Symposium
UCDenver Domain
Copper Nickel, Issue 9
Technology in Teaching Showcase
Grad Student Scholarship
Academic Early Alert
Dean Candidate Visits
CRISPs
Reminders
CLAS in the Spotlight
Events
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EDITOR:
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