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Receiving the honor of being named the inaugural Timmerhaus Teaching Ambassador is Noah Finkelstein, President’s Teaching Scholar and professor of physics at CU-�Ǹ�Թ�. “I’m profoundly honored by this award, and the explicit recognition and attention to education as a core enterprise of the University of Colorado,” Finkelstein said.

Myron Gutmann, a prominent historical demographer, has taken the helm of the Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS) at the �Ǹ�Թ�. Gutmann, who became the institute’s director on Jan. 1, succeeds Jane Menken, a distinguished professor of sociology, who has led IBS since 2001. One of his key objectives is to spread the word, to “show the people of Colorado that we are making an important investment in things that have value for them.”

For more than 40 years, the Child Learning Center (CLC) CU-�Ǹ�Թ�’s Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences has been helping �Ǹ�Թ� County children get the most out of their education. That work will continue thanks in part to a $25,000 grant from the Millennium Trust.

The Department of Ethnic Studies this year celebrates the 20th anniversary of its genesis. After a tumultuous beginning, it has grown into a prominent and respected department that has great support from the university administration.

A �Ǹ�Թ� alumnus who found a previously undiscovered population of critically endangered monkeys in Vietnam has won the 2014 Sabin Prize for Excellence in Primate Conservation.

In a national project designed to help communities cope with extreme events, Liesel Ritchie, associate director for research at the Natural Hazards Center in the Institute of Behavioral Science at the �Ǹ�Թ�, has been chosen by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to serve as a Disaster Resilience Fellow.

Today, �Ǹ�Թ� English professor Ruth Ellen Kocher is a celebrated poet and professor, but she didn’t get to this point before clearing several obstacles.

Sandra Q. Firmin, curator of UB Art Galleries at SUNY Buffalo, has been named the director of the �Ǹ�Թ� Art Museum.Firmin will begin as director on April 21, replacing interim director Stephen Martonis.“The CU Art Museum is

"I was called many things that I cannot repeat here, but the most professional accusation I received was that I was breaking the laws of thermodynamics. I took that pretty hard,” says College Professor of Distinction

Associate Professor Stephen J. Mojzsis has been recognized for Excellence as Outstanding Teacher for Technology in Teaching by ASSETT.ASSETT, or the Arts and Sciences Support of Education through Technology, is a student-funded group that advocates