Archives from June 2005
Commencement
ceremonies applaud
graduates, honor awardees
At the May 27 University of Colorado Denver commencement
ceremonies on the Health Sciences Center campus at Ninth Ave. and Colorado Blvd.,
668 candidates for May and August graduation participated: 60 from the School
of Dentistry; 116 from the School of Medicine; 154 from the School of Nursing;
120 from the School of Pharmacy; and 228 from the Graduate School.
Oyate
Diversity Student Council
supports campus diversity
The Oyate Diversity Student Council recently celebrated its 4th annual graduation
banquet for all graduating minority and underrepresented seniors from the Health
Sciences Center campus.
Tim
Byers Named Deputy Director of UCCC
Dr. Tim Byers, MPH, has been named deputy director of the University of Colorado
Cancer Center.
Science
Fair allows young scientists to shine
The 41st Annual Denver Metropolitan Regional Science Fair for students grades
6 through 12 saw nearly 100 of the best and brighest young scientists flex
their intellectual muscles for a chance to advance on to national levels of
competition.
Celebrating
30 years of Nurse Practitioner continuing education
Two significant events in the Nurse Practitioner movement
will be celebrated this summer at Keystone Resort. This year marks the 30th
anniversary of the National Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Symposium and
the 40th anniversary of the Nurse Practitioner (NP) Program.
CDC
grants $2.8 Million to Marion Downs Hearing Center
The University of Colorado Denver has received
a $2.8 million federal grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
for the development and expansion of programs at the Marion Downs Hearing Center
at the Fitzsimons campus.
One
of the world’s largest magnets
delivered to Fitzsimons
Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Colorado Denver today received an enormous yet
delicate delivery of a much anticipated $5 million nuclear magnetic resonance
magnet.
The delivery came nearly two years after CU researchers were awarded a $6.5
million grant to bring to Colorado the largest NMR magnet available in the
world today. It will be the only magnet of its type in the Rocky Mountain region
and will be used for biomedical research.
Timing
of gluten introduction into
infant diets tied to Celiac Disease
A new study by researchers at the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes
and the Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics at the University of Colorado Denver has found that children with
gluten exposure from cereal grains at 4 to 6 months of age have a lower risk
of celiac disease than children with exposure before or after this time period.
The findings were published in the May 18 issue of the Journal of the American
Medical Association.
