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This month, Physics Associate Professor Randall Tagg worked with the Aurora School District's Jennifer Nassar to present, "From Wow to Know How,"a series of science and engineering demonstrations for third and fourth graders participating in the "Engineering is Elementary" program, developed at Boston's Museum of Science. A link showing Tagg's appearance as "Dr. Chaos" can be seen is available online.

In April, Tagg worked with Dr. Alejandra Morales in Aurora's VistaPEAK school to run a 5-day session for twenty 6th graders to do special science investigations developing methods for monitoring volcanic activity at Yellowstone. He followed this up with a visit to Georgia Tech, to discuss connections between turbulence research and epilepsy, and to give a talk about student research in nonlinear dynamics. He then gave the talk, "Dynamics by the Dozen" as the final colloquium for the spring semester at CU Boulder's Applied Math Department.

In March, Tagg co-organized and ran a session at the National Science Teachers Association national meeting in Indianapolis titled, "Year to Year: Building a Continuous Collective of Student Research with Mobile Devices/Online Resources."

Kathie Novak, former mayor of Northglenn and a staff member at the Buechner Institute for Governance in the School of Public Affairs has been named the 38th recipient of the John V. Christensen Award by the Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG). The award is named for an Arapahoe County Commissioner who was a founding member of DRCOG.

In announcing the award, DRCOG said, "As an elected official, Kathie also focused on the region’s quality of life as an eight-year member of the DRCOG board. She was a highly regarded voice at the DRCOG table because of her understanding of the challenges the region faces and her dedication to addressing those challenges. ... DRCOG thanks Kathie for her long record of public service devoted to the betterment of her community, region, state and nation."
Created in 1972, the criteria for this award includes a demonstration of efforts regarding:

• Promotion of coordination and cooperation among citizens and local elected officials in a continuing effort to solve regional problems.
• Recognizing that jurisdictional boundaries are not barriers to the solution of such problems.
• Providing leadership to, or support for, the concept that strong local government representation is the basis for regional accomplishment.

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William Arend, MD, professor, Medicine-Rheumatology, received the Gold Medal for Medical Research from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Alumni Association. The award honors Arend’s career achievements.

There was an article about his research (and clinical and teaching excellence) in CU Medicine Today in Spring 2010. 

Anesthesiology Professor Glenn Gravlee, MD, has received the Distinguished Service Award from the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists.

The award goes to “an individual who has made signal contributions to the specialty of cardiovascular anesthesiology through research, education, service, or some combination of these activities.”  

An article by Maria Elena Buszek, PhD, associate professor of Art History, College of Arts & Media, "Labor is my medium: Some perspective(s) on contemporary craft" was just published in the new issue of the twice-yearly Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art Journal (current edition available in print only).

Buszek also was recently a guest speaker as part of the Pacific Northwest College of Art's Craft Perspectives series, where she discussed her ongoing research pertaining to contemporary artists' exploration of craft media and processes. The college has posted her presentation as a podcast on its online magazine Untitled at http://untitled.pnca.edu/multimedia/show/5556/

Her work in ‘craftivism’ relates to creative, traditional handcraft (often, assisted by high-tech means of community-building, skill-sharing, and action) directed toward political and social causes. The phrase was coined by artists and collectives in the wake of the September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center in New York City.

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