Category: Colleagues

Congratulations to JáNet Hurt! Her steadfast representation on CU Denver’s Staff Council has evolved into an even larger leadership and advocacy role. She was elected to serve as co-chair of University of Colorado Staff Council (UCSC), a systemwide governance group representing staff (classified, exempt, and professional research assistants), for fiscal years 2023 and 2024. UCSC…

SEHD’s Ed Cannon worked with Governor Polis on a cooperative legislative effort (HB 22-1267) with Envision: You and ONE Colorado. HB 22-1267 Provisions: The bill creates a $900,000 grant program to fund the development of culturally relevant and affirming healthcare training programs for healthcare and mental health providers. The grant program will be administered by…

As Evaluation Specialist, Ryan will perform functions related to the evaluation of the Colorado Clinical and Translational Science Institute. Ryan joins us from The University of Northern Colorado where he worked as a research consultant. Some fun facts about Ryan: Born in Conifer Colorado, he is a Colorado native. He loves to play basketball, and…

The Evaluation Center’s article was selected as “Editors’ Choice” by the journal Evaluation and Program Planning. Christine Velez led the writing team that included Bridget Nuechterlein and Susan Connors from The Evaluation Center and faculty from the School of Public Health and the Departments of Integrative Biology and Civil Engineering. Their paper is entitled “Application…

Ancestral Bonding: Autoethnography of a Holocaust Granddaughter The severity of historical trauma (HT) endured by Jews is central in the historiography of the Holocaust and affects survivors, descendants, and the Jewish people. Studies of transgenerational trauma transmission in descendants portray both psychopathological and positive outcomes, yet trauma trends understood from research of the second generation…

‘A glaring concern’: Chicago’s support staff substitute pool stretched thin amid pandemic May 25, 2022 — This school year has trained a spotlight on a dearth of substitute teachers in Chicago and beyond. Amid increasingly stressful work and relatively low pay, many paraprofessionals and other school support staff members have been swept up in the…

Tiny Innovations and Rejuvenations Grand, sometimes heroic, responses to two years of COVID-driven disruptions made it possible to serve CU Denver’s students and communities in extraordinary ways. For a much-needed change of scale, on April 15, ThinqStudio’s annual Unconference focused on “Tiny Innovations and Rejuvenations.” After these challenging years, CU Denver’s dedicated educators, staff, and administrators relished the…

CU Denver CityCenter Announces 2022-23 TIAA Chancellor’s Urban Engaged Scholars Bianco’s Pathways2Teaching program helps to recruit and retain teachers of color to create spaces of educational equity. Additionally, Bianco researches strategies to create Grow Your Own teacher programs for high school students of color in urban and rural communities. See the full article on CU…