Professor Maya Avina
Art Professor Maya Avina demonstrated at an Imagination Celebration event in Colorado Springs in September a chicken coop she crafted for $200 using all natural, local materials. All trash generated in its construction fit into one five gallon bucket.
Bill Brown
Physics Professor Bill Brown is working with other scientists to build a new window to the universe in Lamar, Colo., as part of the Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory project, which will study the universe’s highest energy particles in the form of cosmic rays in tandem with a matching site in western Argentina. The site in southern Colorado will provide nearly uniform coverage of the skies in the northern and southern hemispheres.
Hector Carrasco
Hector Carrasco, dean of the College of Education, Engineering, and Professional Studies, was featured in a recent issue of the Hispanic Engineer and Information Technology as one of the nation’s most important Hispanics in technology. Besides giving his favorite book, movie, and web site, the article chronicles his greatest career accomplishment, his greatest influences, and why he chose to enter higher education.
Ian Brennan
Hasan School of Business Professor Ian Brennan uses undergraduate students as subjects in his experiments on the influence of various types of brand placement in novels and movies and the effects on reader/viewer brand recall. Among the goods and services he tracks are Mercedes, Starbucks, Cheerios, Dasani, and Radisson.
George Dallam
Exercise Science Assistant Professor George Dallam’s most recent research interests are triathlon related studies and diabetes prevention. He manages a grant-funded, worksite-based diabetes prevention program in Pueblo and is the former USA Triathlon National Teams Coach (1996-1997). He has coached several elite triathletes, including 2000 U.S. Olympian and 2003 Pan American Games Gold Medalist Hunter Kemper.
Jude DePalma
Jude DePalma, along with Todd Schlegel (Nassau Bay, TX), and Saeed Moradi (Houston, TX) earned a continuation patent for their real-time, high frequency QRS electrocardiograph with reduced amplitude zone detection that was produced in conjunction with research conducted through the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Real time cardiac electrical data are received from a patient, manipulated to determine various useful aspects of the ECG signal, and displayed in real time in a useful form on a computer screen or monitor.
Kevin Duncan
Hasan School of Business Professor and senior economist for the Healy Center for Business and Economic Research contributes to the University’s outreach through creation of economic impact studies that provide valuable information to organizations seeking data to make better decisions. Recent studies have included economic impacts of a possible wind farm in Huerfano County, ballot measures on Pueblo and El Paso counties, non-profit organizations, and international studies to a community.
Sam Ebersole
Mass Communications Professor Sam Ebersole has earned two Emmy Awards from the National Academy for Television Arts and Sciences for his 1988 contribution to NBC’s coverage of the Games of the XXIV Olympiad in Seoul, Korea. The awards are for Ebersole’s positions on NBC’s Technical Team Studio and Technical Team Remote.
Jane Fraser
Jane Fraser, chair of the engineering department, was named the inaugural recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Industrial Engineering Division of the American Society of Engineering Education for rising to the top among the nation’s industrial engineering educators who have made significant contributions over an extended period of time to the discipline and the division, and who exemplify the highest standards of the professorate in industrial engineering.
Peggy Foley
Nursing Program Adviser Peggy Foley received the 2011 Sigma Theta Tau Lota Pi Friends of Nursing Award, which honors non-nursing professionals who contribute to nurse education.
Richard Hansen
Landscape architect and art professor Richard Hansen is an artist who makes sculptural elements and shapes landscape spaces across the country, viewing his form poems as intensifications of energies flowing through the site. Hansen’s landscape artistry can be seen from the shore of Lake Michigan and Maclean, Virginia to Rock Springs, Maryland and the campus of St. Cloud State University in Minnesota.
Vicky and Richard Hansen
Vicky and Richard Hansen present ceramic vessels and flow drawings in an exhibition: Clay And Water. Fire And Flow. Baltimore and 14th Street. Kansas City, Missouri April 6 - June 30 2012.
Karen Marley
The Pathfinder is awarded to a female who has championed for girls and women in sports. This could be a coach, an official, a participant of any combination of the above. The award winner must be someone who has made a significant contribution to girls and women in sport in his/her state as determined by state leaders.
Early in her career Karen started Total School CPR where every sophomore is trained in school districts throughout Pennsylvania. In Colorado, she was the first women on CHSAA field hockey committee and the first women to become a certified master’s athletic administrators. She was the first person in Colorado to be on the National Federation of High School Field Hockey rules committee, she was also first athletic director in state of Colorado to become leadership training certified which enabled her to become part of the national faculty that does leadership training for athletic directors.