Archives from March 2004
CU
School of Pharmacy Ranks First in Nation For NIH Individual Grant Awards
The University of Colorado School of Pharmacy ranks first in the nation for National
Institutes of Health individual research grant awards for full-time PhD-level
faculty. The School of Pharmacy took the top ranking out of 64 pharmacy schools
during fiscal year 2003 in a recent survey released by the American Association
of Colleges of Pharmacy. The school received more than $6 million in individual
awards, assisting 28 full-time PhD-level faculty researchers. The average
individual award amounted to $215,100.
Prescription
for the Future: Healthcare Careers
On March 5, sixty counselors, educators and healthcare coordinators from Aurora,
Cherry Creek, Denver and Douglas County public school systems attended a day-long
conference to explore those opportunities: Healthcare Institute for Counselors:
A Prescription for the Future: Healthcare Careers.
Photography
and Medical Practice:
How the Two Have Worked Together
It began with a photograph of a child suffering from
severe malnutrition, his stomach bloated, and his little body covered with
sores. It was the mid 1960s in Viet Nam. Dr. Carl Bartecchi an intern living
in Detroit had been drafted into the war and was sent as a flight surgeon
to the Mekong delta in Viet Nam. Finding he had some extra time on his
hands he ventured into the village of Soc Trang and visited the local orphanage.
It housed 100 children who were being cared for by three nuns.
Pulmonary
Rehabilitation Week
Imagine experiencing frequent shortness of breath,
feeling tightness in your chest, catching colds more often, and not being
able to exercise. This is a reality for the millions of people who suffer
from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, a chronic, progressive disease
of the airways that causes gradual loss of lung function, making COPD the
fourth leading cause of death in the United States. March 16-22, celebrate
every breath of life by recognizing National Pulmonary Rehabilitation Week,
sponsored by the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation.
Dr.
Paul Bunn and C-Change Accelerate
Nation’s Fight Against Cancer
C-Change, the first organization to bring together the public, private
and nonprofit sectors to address cancer as a societal problem has announced
its historic collaboration and its goal to prevent an additional one million
new cancer cases and 500,000 cancer deaths by 2010.
Colorado
Center for Altitude Medicine
celebrates grand opening in new facility
The Colorado Center for Altitude Medicine and Physiology
has a new home: Building 400 on the University of Colorado Denver’s Fitzsimons campus.
Chancellor’s
Society: The Brain Signals
for Depression and Alcoholism
The Chancellor’s Society Luncheon was held March
11, in the Skaff Common Room in the CU School of Pharmacy to a "sold
out" crowd of 90. There also were ten students who joined the group from
the Schools of Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy.
UCD "Presidents" Are
Plentiful
At the March 4 meeting of the CU Regents, Chancellor
James Shore presented the Regents with an impressive list of UCD faculty
members currently or recently serving as president of national and regional
professional associations.
Implantable,
continuous sensor reduced
glucose fluctuations in type 1 diabetes
Adults with type 1 diabetes experienced decreased periods
of high or low blood sugar when using a long-term implantable, continuous
glucose sensor, according to a study in the March issue of the journal Diabetes
Care.
Chair
Affair Reception to be
Held March 10 in Bldg. 500
As part of Original Aurora Renewal's Chair Affair, Café 500 is currently
displaying a sampling of painted, adorned and decorated miniature wooden
chairs, created by more than 50 local celebrities, artists and residents, including
Aurora Mayor Ed Tauer and First Lady Betsy Tauer; 9News anchor Kim Christiansen;
former Denver Broncos; and Colorado Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell; to
name a few.
Glenwood
Allen retires
When Glenwood Allen officially retired Feb. 24, the
Bruns Conference room in Building 500 was full — full of well-wishers,
co-workers and friends. Allen retired after more than 24 years with the
CU Health Sciences Center.
Brain
imaging facility to be used
for drug abuse research
On Feb. 19, the University of Colorado celebrated the
opening of a new brain imaging facility, which will be used to study drug
abuse in young people and mental illnesses in people of all ages. Funded
by a $4.2 million grant from the Office of National Drug Control Policy
of the Executive Office of the President, the University of Colorado Center
for Brain Imaging and Drug Abuse Research will house the most powerful
MRI instrument in the Rocky Mountain Region.
Mark
Your Calendar: the 2004
Get Fitz Walk & Family Festival
Are you looking for a fun way to get some exercise
and support a great cause at the same time? If so, make plans to participate
in the University of Colorado Hospital’s Get Fitz Walk & Family
Festival on Saturday, June 12, 2004, from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. at
the Fitzsimons campus in Aurora.
Palm
pilots for the future
The University of Colorado School of Dentistry Alumni
Association (SODAA) made an investment in the future of dental education
with the donation of 61 brand new Palm Zire PDAs to this year’s group
of freshmen dental and dental hygiene students.
2004
Denver Metropolitan Regional Science
and Engineering Fair a success
The Denver Metropolitan Regional Science and Engineering Fair was held
Feb. 23-24 at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. The Fair provided
Denver area students the opportunity to display their science projects in an
atmosphere of competition, creativity and education.
