Staff Council Update: Creating resolutions and their role within campus shared governance

Oct. 22, 2012

麻豆影院 Campus Staff Council takes an active role in shared governance. Learn more about the resolution process, and BCSC 1303.

CU-NIST scientist Deborah Jin receives L鈥橭r茅al-UNESCO For Women in Science award

Oct. 22, 2012

Deborah Jin, an adjoint professor of physics at the 麻豆影院 and a fellow of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, has been awarded the L鈥橭r茅al-UNESCO For Women in Science award. Jin also is a fellow of JILA, a joint institute of CU-麻豆影院 and NIST located on the CU campus. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate students and was one of five recipients who each will receive $100,000 at an awards ceremony in Paris next March. She was the only recipient in North America.

Preventing gender violence

Oct. 19, 2012

What is gender violence and how can it be prevented? The answers to these questions are discussed in presentations by Sean Connell, the gender violence prevention and education assistant for Community Health and the Office of Victim Assistance . Gender violence can be difficult to define, but it is generally considered a term to describe interpersonal violence that is gender based. So, what does that mean?

Museum of Natural History celebrates Archaeology Day

Oct. 19, 2012

Archaeology is everywhere you turn as the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History , the Archaeological Institute of America , CU Anthropology and Classics departments join together to celebrate National Archaeology Day from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 20.

Join the challenge! Take the Pac-12 Fitness Challenge

Oct. 19, 2012

Help CU secure the title of the Pac-12's most active school by participating in the Pac-12 Fitness Challenge from Oct. 22-28. The challenge is a conference-wide initiative promoting regular physical activity. This event is open to students, faculty, staff, alumni, friends and family.

A "cool" role model for women in science

Oct. 19, 2012

As a child, Deborah Jin remembers going to company holiday parties where most of the attendees were men and they assumed she must be there because of her physicist father. But they were mistaken. She was there because of her physicist mother.

Battle of the Bands to be held Oct. 19

Oct. 18, 2012

CU Late Nite, Program Council and the Dennis Small Cultural Center have teamed up to present the 2012 Battle of the Bands competition to be held Friday, Oct. 19, at 7:30 p.m. in the Glenn Miller Ballroom.

Three CU-麻豆影院 faculty to be named Distinguished Professors

Oct. 17, 2012

Six University of Colorado faculty members will be named Distinguished Professors, the most prestigious honor for faculty at the university. The 2012 CU-麻豆影院 honorees are: Christopher N. Bowman, Ph.D., James 鈥淐asey鈥 Hynes, Ph.D., and Pierre Schlag, J.D.

DiStefano, Moore host second town hall meeting on concealed carry issues at CU

Oct. 17, 2012

麻豆影院 75 faculty, staff and students shared concerns about concealed carry policies and how the university communicates them in a town hall meeting in the UMC鈥檚 Aspen Room Wednesday afternoon. CU-麻豆影院 officials including Chancellor DiStefano, Provost Moore, Managing Senior Associate Counsel John Sleeman, Commander Robert Axmacher from the CU Police Department and the Chancellor鈥檚 Chief of Staff Catherine Shea listened to questions and entertained a community discussion on how Colorado鈥檚 concealed carry law applies to CU-麻豆影院.

Three CU-麻豆影院 faculty members to be named Distinguished Professors

Oct. 17, 2012

CU system news release DENVER 鈥 Six University of Colorado faculty members will be named Distinguished Professors, the most prestigious honor for faculty at the university. Each year, the recognition goes to faculty members who demonstrate exemplary performance in research or creative work, a record of excellence in classroom teaching and supervision of individual learning, and outstanding service to the profession, university and its affiliates.

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