April 2013 Lory work INSIDE: kicks into BEST TEACHERS p.3 & 4 high gear by Courtney Riley WHY I LOVE CSU p.15 ext month, the Lory NStudent Center will undergo some major changes to prepare for the new renovations that will transform the building COMMUNITY into a larger, more updated EVENTS gathering place for students, faculty and sta . “One of the big Business Day reasons that the students overwhelmingly voted for The College of Business 2013 Business Day, this (renovation) is that it Wednesday, April 3, will really needs to be updated, celebrate the fortitude and Last year, CSU ranked 16th in a nation in the RecycleMania competition, which is a waste reduction competition among including the pipes and resolve of entrepreneurs over 650 schools nation wide. This years competition ended on March 31st. Photo by Mary Willson. stu you don’t see day to and others who have day,” said Doni Luckutt, succeeded in the face of director of marketing for tremendous obstacles. A the LSC. “We keep it up half-dozen speakers will Sustainability moves past very well, but it’s time that inspire the entire community it’s upgraded.” with discussions revolving e new LSC will be around this year’s theme, Earth Day: long-term food expanded by 40,000 square “Defying All Odds.” The feet, and the main ballroom, event is free and open the public and begins at 9 a.m. waste mitigation program which is already one of the in the Lory Student Center largest meeting spaces in Theater. Northern Colorado, will be shows environmental progress enlarged to nearly 17,000 Contemporary Artist by Mary Willson during Spring Break Spring Cleaning to boost square feet. Music Series participation. “ e branding of the wenty-six percent of what is thrown away rough many on-campus programs building is going to be On Wednesday, April 3, Ton the Colorado State University campus throughout the year, CSU is committed to excellent,” Luckutt said. CSU alumnus Branden could have been recycled, and 36 percent mitigating its environmental impact. e “It’ll talk about our land- Sipes, will be performing could have been composted, according to the recycling rate on campus has climbed from grant mission and what acoustic originals that university’s annual waste audit. at’s why 26 percent to 56 percent, according to CSU’s that means for students combine rock, pop, faculty, sta and students are encouraged to and faculty and sta . Our and folk infl uences. An Green Initiatives blog at http://sustainability. catch RecycleMania. colostate.edu/education/minor-global- Alumni O ce will also have engaging solo performer, RecycleMania is an annual waste reduction a presence, so we’ll really his performance begins at environmental-sustainability. competition among more than 650 schools be able to show students 7:30 p.m. at the University Although CSU has plenty room to Center for the Arts. nationwide. Last year, CSU ranked 16th in improve within waste reduction, the school is our everyday graduates the competition. is year’s competition taking steps toward its goals through various and their extraordinary On Thursday, April 18, ended on March 31, and departments across accomplishments.” Dakota Blonde will perform programs and organizations. campus have been recycling unwanted items See Events page 7 See BEYOND page 6 See LORY page 13 2 CSU Faculty & Sta Life | April 2013
College of Liberal Arts School of Education College of Veterinary Medicine & Program traveled to University Center for the Arts The School of Education Diversity Biomedical Sciences schools in Arizona, New Mexico and southwestern CSU’s School of the Arts hosted Committee announced the 2012- Equine Sciences Colorado on an educational the special master class by the 13 Research on Diversity Fellows “Horse Sense,” which debuted in this March. The fellows receive a outreach tour March 17-22, to 2009 Van Cliburn International February at the Denver Museum stipend to support their research show school children how science Piano Competition joint gold of Nature and Science, is a and will present their work as part can be fun. medal winner, Nobuyuki Tsujii, documentary exploring the world of of the School of Education Critical For the participating K-12 in March at the University Center equine health at CSU. The privately Dialogues on Diversity Series. The schools, the week-long program for the Arts. This event was funded film is a joint project of Fellowship is supported by the enhances student interest in the presented to the community as a Colorado State University and CSU Office of the Vice President for sciences through experiments with free opportunity to hear from the Chapman University in California. Diversity and the CSU Bookstore, everyday objects that demonstrate artist, with an audience Q&A after The documentary, narrated by Gov. along with individual contributions. scientific principles. The program the performance. The master class John Hickenlooper, showcases also engages parents and the was filmed by New York City’s Peter “The Intersection of Latinas/os, CSU’s equine programs including community, provides teachers Rosen for a documentary about the Agriculture, and Higher Education the Orthopaedic Research Center, life of Tsujii. alternative methods of teaching Study” by Shannon Archibeque Equine Reproduction Laboratory, science, and fosters student Additionally Tsujii performed in a of the Engle Ph.D. Program, Equine Hospital, and Equine development in cross-cultural and concert at the Lincoln Center for the Educational Leadership, Renewal, Sciences undergraduate program. global awareness as well as civic Performing Arts in Fort Collins. and Change, investigates Latina/os, The story of equine health is told and social responsibility. agriculture, and higher education through the experiences of clients, from a Critical Chicana Feminist faculty, staff and students. College of Applied Human epistemological perspective using Additional showings of “Horse Sciences CSU and its College of Agricultural Sense” are scheduled for April Sciences and Department of Animal Early Childhood Center 2, April 27 and May 9. For more Sciences as a case study. Colorado State University’s Early information, go to the College of Childhood Center celebrated its new “Adolescents with Chronic Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical location at the historic Washington Health Conditions: Barriers to Sciences website at www.csu- School with a special dedication Academic Success and Finding cvmbs.colostate.edu ceremony and open house on March the Positive Within the Negative 9. Lise Youngblade, department Study” by Julie Hill of the M.Ed. Editor head in Human Development Program, Counseling and Career Native American Cultural Center Courtney Riley and Family Studies, and Development, seeks to examine and Little Shop of Physics Karen Assistant Editor/Photographer Rattenborg, executive director of the barriers to academic success Native American Cultural Center and Mary Willson the ECC, were featured in a story of adolescents with chronic health Little Shop of Physics visited the in the Fort Collins Coloradoan conditions. Four Corners Region over Spring Assistant Editor/Applause about the opening. The center is Break. Through the collaboration, Joi Dandridge committed to partnering with the students from NACC, the Advisors Fort Collins community to care for Department of Physics, and the Kim Blumhardt children in their earliest years to College of Engineering Women Dell Rae Moellenberg ensure later success in life. and Minorities in Engineering Kimberly Sorensen Designer Save the date to Celebrate! Verretta Andersen Send in your Applause Colorado State University will honor faculty and staff who have reached service milestones during the 2012-13 fi scal year at the annual Celebrate! Do you have news from your CSU Life is published monthly through CSU Milestones event. This all-University will take place at 3-5 p.m. department or unit you would like a partnership with CSU Department of on Thursday, May 9 in the Lory Student Center Theatre. To personally to share with the rest of the CSU External Relations and Rocky Mountain Student Media. The publication is mailed congratulate a Milestones honoree or group of honorees, please email your community? Send it to celebratory message to [email protected] no later than Tuesday, to faculty and staff on campus. [email protected] Contact us at May 7. Your message might be used during the Celebrate! CSU Milestones for inclusion in our Applause section. event on May 9. [email protected] CSU Faculty & Sta Life | April 2013 3 Meet 2013’s Best Teacher Award winners ach year, students and alumni have an Eopportunity to recognize the positive impact a Colorado State University teacher has had on their lives. From 100 nominations, six teachers are selected by a committee. is year’s Best Teachers will be recognized at an awards dinner on Monday, April 15, at 6:30 p.m. in the Lory Student Center eatre. For tickets and additional information, visit the Alumni Association. is year’s Best Teacher Award recipients are Jane Choi, Michael Gross, Gretchen Irwin Casterella, Seung Hwan (Mark) Lee, Greg Lu , and Brian Tracy. e awards ceremony will be on Monday, April 15, 6:30 p.m, in the Lory Student Center Main Ballroom.
Gretchen Irwin Casterella, Ph.D., Department of Computer Information Systems, College of Business “I love the energy I see in students -- the sparks of intellectual curiosity and interest in the topic, the smiles when they solve di cult design problems, the insightful questions they ask, and the con dence they build over the course of the semester.” ~ Gretchen Irwin Casterella Gretchen Irwin Casterella is an associate professor Michael A. Gross Mark Lee in the Department of Computer Information Systems She earned her B.F.A. from Parsons School of Michael A. Gross is an associate professor at Colorado State University. She holds a Ph.D. and Design and her Master of Landscape Architecture in the Department of Management at CSU. He a Masters of Science in Information Systems from the from Harvard University’s Graduate School of teaches negotiation and con ict management at the University of Colorado. Design, attaining the highest design honors at both undergraduate level and in the graduate and executive Her primary research interest is in systems institutions. Prior to joining the faculty at CSU, she was programs as well as courses in organizational behavior development, speci cally in understanding how a lecturer and design critic at Harvard in the landscape and human resource management. individuals learn and master tools, technologies, architecture program and advanced multi-disciplinary He is the 2013 program chair, Con ict and approaches for systems analysis and design (e.g., design studios. Management Division, Academy of Management, a database query formulation, object-oriented modeling, Professionally, she has served as principal 2012 dean’s scholar for excellence in research at the and agile development). Her research has appeared in designer on domestic and international projects for College of Business, and was recently elected to the Communications of the ACM, the Journal of MIS, the the renowned landscape architecture rms Michael executive board of the International Association for Journal of the AIS, IEEE Transactions on Professional Van Valkenburgh Associates and Martha Schwartz Con ict Management. Communication, and Human-Computer Interaction. Partners. Gross earned his Ph.D. at Arizona State University. In 2004, she and her husband, Scott Carman, His current research interests focus on con ict with Jane Choi, M.L.A., co-founded c2 | studio, an award-winning practice managing experience design, trust and trust repair, Department of Horticulture and Landscape that has been widely published and exhibited, and was con ict and verbal aggression, and personality and Architecture, College of Agricultural Sciences recently selected as one of three nalists in a national abusive supervision. He has published 18 articles “What started out as a process of simply giving competition to re-design a portion of Denver’s City in academic journals and has given 30 research advice to my peers gave way to more critical lessons Park. presentations at international and national conferences. applied in o ces and academic settings. Although getting He serves on ve editorial review boards. here wasn’t a straight path, it’s the most wonderful career Michael A. Gross, Ph.D., choice I could have made.” ~ Jane Choi Department of Management, College of Business Seung Hwan (Mark) Lee, Ph.D., Jane Choi is an assistant professor of landscape “My third grade teacher was the rst teacher to Department of Marketing, College of Business architecture at Colorado State University with an inspire me to be an educator and at age 8, I knew I “To this day, I get excited about teaching in front extensive background in academia and professional would become a professor for my life’s work.” ~ Michael of the classroom. When it is a Friday, I get anxious and practice. Gross can’t wait until I get back into the classroom the week a er.” ~ Seung Hwan (Mark) Lee Seung Hwan (Mark) Lee is an assistant professor of marketing at CSU. He earned his Ph.D. from the Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. He completed his M.B.A. at the University of Windsor, Ontario, in 2006. Lee’s primary research interests are in the consumer behavior discipline, speci cally focusing on the structural dynamics of social networks and their impact on consumers. His research has appeared in the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Consumer Psychology, the Journal of Business Ethics, and others. Currently, he teaches an undergraduate level course on buyer behavior. Prior to joining CSU, he taught Principles of Marketing at the University of Western Ontario where he was awarded the university-wide Excellence in Teaching Award.
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Greg Lu , M.A. (‘79), Department of Journalism and Technical Communication,College of Liberal Arts “I discovered that CSU presented more interesting career choices than a gas station, chicken farm, or highway construction site, where I xed truck tires, picked eggs, and shoveled sand to help pay for college.” ~ Greg Lu Greg Lu, department chair of the Department of Journalism and Technical Communication, grew up on a farm near Platteville, graduated from Valley High School in Gilcrest in 1974, and from CSU in 1979 with a degree in technical journalism. He later attended graduate school at American University in Washington, D.C., where he studied public a airs reporting. Lu was a general assignment and investigative reporter, photojournalist, and news anchor for radio and television stations in Cheyenne, Wyo.; Fort Myers, Fla.; Washington, D.C.; Tulsa, Okla.; and Denver. He has been teaching television news, video production, and documentary storytelling at CSU Greg Luft Brian Tracy since 1988. His daughter, Emily, graduated from the journalism and technical communication program at CSU in exercise and sport science with a minor in diseased human neuromuscular system with funding CSU in December 2012, and Greg Jr. started at CSU anatomical science, followed by an M.S. at in exercise from the National Institutes of Health and from last fall as a percussion major. physiology. He completed a Ph.D. in the kinesiology industry and private sources. department at the University of Maryland, College He teaches undergraduate level classes in Brian Tracy, Ph.D. (B.S., ‘88, M.S. ,’91), Park, and then a postdoctoral fellowship in the neuromuscular aspects of human movement and Department of Health and Exercise Science, College laboratory of Roger Enoka at the University of in anatomical kinesiology, and graduate level of Applied Human Sciences Colorado, Boulder. advanced neural control of movement. He engages “I feel like my life has come full circle since my Tracy was hired as an assistant professor in in signi cant extramural outreach in the form of undergraduate experience here.” ~ Brian Tracy the Department of Health and Exercise Science at community-based lay seminars and neuroscience A third-generation native Coloradan from CSU in 2003 and is now an associate professor. His education outreach for children of all ages. Westminster, Brian Tracy received a B.S. from laboratory conducts research into the neural control Congratulations to this year’s Best Teacher Award of muscles and physical function in the aging and recipients! ‘Love, In Theory’ touches both the heart and the mind by Hannah Woolums personal and scholarly by engaging theories from a variety of scholarly disciplines to examine their any authors strive to get their work published, and relevance to daily life. I hope these stories help a bit to Mwithin the CSU community many faculty and sta answer fundamental questions of our era: Where in an have been able to do so. information-rich age is wisdom to be found? How can Author E.J. Levy, a professor in the Department of we integrate heart and mind?” English, has recently been one of those who have had the privilege to see their books end up on the shelves at Short stories are alive and well the CSU Bookstore. Her short-story collection, “Love, In eory,” Levy hopes that rst and foremost her stories will depicts the adventures of romance. show readers that the art of creating short-stories is still “Because ‘Love, In eory’ is a short-story thriving. collection -- it won the Flannery O’Connor Award for “ e short-story form is alive and well! Short ction ction -- it gets to be about a lot of things, but mostly can be as compelling and funny and thought-provoking it’s 10 stories that look at romance through the lens of as a good novel (of course, if you’re reading the work of scholarly theories to illuminate love in the Information George Saunders or Claire Vaye Watkins or CSU’s own Age,” Levy said in an e-mail. “ e pieces range widely Judy Doenges or Steven Schwartz or Leslee Becker, you across disciplines from political science to philosophy already know this...),” Levy said. to drama, from Rational Choice eory to Veblen’s Levy has gained many irreplaceable experiences ‘ eory of the Leisure Class,’ to explore the heart and through the process of publishing and traveling with her the mind.” book. ese experiences have given Levy insight from Although her role as a graduate student had a huge her many readers. in uence on her stories, as did her heartbreak then, she “It’s been a wonderful experience, not least for the was also inspired by contemporary American writers occasion it has provided to travel around the country and her hope to integrate the intellect into her stories. and connect (or re-connect) with readers and writers “ e work of Lorrie Moore and Andrea Barret and old friends and mentors. I’m very grateful to the certainly informs these stories, since I love their ction, many insightful reviewers who have written generously but I was also living in a richly intellectual university- about the collection (this, alas, does not include a community as a student and was unsettled by the certain New York Times reviewer, who appears to have read a di erent book altogether...),” Levy said. Award and the Best of the Year Award from ForeWord fact that so much contemporary American ction reviews,” said Levy. “Despite my fears, which held me seems to segregate the intellectual from the domestic, Her adventure does not end there. She is currently in the running for a few national awards and is excited back from publishing for years, it’s been wonderful to to see the two as separate spheres, reinforcing an release work into the world, in spite of its imperfections: anti-intellectualism that has too oen characterized to begin working on her rst novel. “I’m grati ed that the collection is currently a nalist It clears the well to write the next book, which is where our national culture,” Levy said. “I hoped ‘Love, the real pleasure lies.” In eory’ might challenge that segregation of the for some national awards, including the Edmund White CSU Faculty & Sta Life | April 2013 5 CSU ‘reinventing’ undergrad learning by Kate Hawthorne Jeracki organization’s Board of Directors. ” e decision to move e Reinvention Center olorado State University is now the host to Colorado State is really a tribute to Alan and his Ccampus for e Reinvention Center, a national involvement in e orts – on our campus, statewide, consortium of 65 major research universities and nationally -- to transform the quality of dedicated to improving undergraduate education undergraduate education,” CSU President Tony on their campuses. Frank said. “CSU has made student success and “ e Reinvention Center is the only national persistence a priority, and our signi cant progress organization focusing exclusively on undergraduate on that front is a result of the strategic e orts of education at research universities, and it is a great people like Alan, our faculty, and many others who honor for Colorado State to be the institutional have been willing to innovate and explore new host for the initiative,” CSU Provost and Executive approaches to advance student learning.” Vice President Rick Miranda said. “While e To emphasize the equal importance of curricular Reinvention Center is not speci cally a CSU and co-curricular experiences to undergraduate program, its location in Fort Collins presents education, Blanche Hughes, CSU’s Vice President signi cant opportunities for administrators, faculty for Student A airs, has been appointed the newest member of e Reinvention Center’s board.
Science of Learning Course Development Mike Palmquist Competition and 400-level, and may be new or may extend In recognition of the arrival of the center a successful redesign project from the 2012-13 on campus, the Provost’s Course Redesign academic year competition. Competition has been renamed the TILT/ e deadline for this rst round of proposals is Reinvention Center Science of Learning Course 1 p.m., Monday, April 22. Development Competition for the 2013-14 Additional information about the competition, its academic year. use of research ndings from the science of learning, “ is competition supports the development and the learning ecologies approach to course or redesign of undergraduate courses across the redesign can be found at http://tilt.colostate.edu/ university and in particular courses that can reinvention/. be described as core, foundational, or gateway courses,” explained Mike Palmquist, associate vice provost for Learning and Teaching. “ e goal of the competition is to encourage faculty and their departments to extend e orts to examine how Alan Lamborn students can become engaged learners early in their collegiate career. e course redesign process, and sta across campus to continue our ongoing which is informed by recent research on the science e ort to enhance undergraduate learning and of learning, is designed to result in improved persistence to graduation.” student learning, enhanced academic success, and e Reinvention Center consortium includes increased student retention.” some of the nation’s most prestigious research Funded through generous contributions from universities, such as Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, the Provost and CSU Online Plus, as well as private MIT, Case Western Reserve, Stanford, University contributions, the competition is designed to of Colorado at Boulder and several institutions in support 100 courses over a ve-year period, starting the University of California system. e Center was with 20 course-design projects in 2013-14. Funding initially housed at the State University of New York and sta support will be provided for 10 course- at Stony Brook and most recently at the University design projects in the rst half of the academic year. of Miami. A second call for proposals for the second half of CSU Vice Provost for Undergraduate A airs the year will be issued in the fall. Alan Lamborn has been appointed executive Proposals will be accepted not only for lower- Blanche Hughes director of e Reinvention Center by the division courses, but also for those at the 300- 6 CSU Faculty & Sta Life | April 2013 BEYOND | Earth Day From page 1 to the composter and back to campus as a rich soil amendment for landscaping projects.” New pilot program CSU’s positive sustainability actions, such as e newest of these is a pilot project implemented composting, are setting the stage a very “green” Earth through CSU Housing and Dining Services. Half a ton Day celebration on campus April 18, which will kick o a of food waste from on-campus dining halls a day is being week of green activities. (See related article on Page XX.) diverted from land lls into the Drake Water Reclamation “In looking at sustainability, we look at the triple Facility, as part of a commercial food waste-to-clean- bottom line (people, planet, pro t),” said Miyamoto. “We energy program operated in partnership with the City of want to make sure that sustainability e orts engage and Fort Collins. Instead of just dumping everything in the educate students, take social justice into consideration, garbage, Housing and Dining sta separate food from and have an economic impact --lower utilities, o set other types of waste. CSU trucks then haul the bins full land ll tipping fees, educational value, etc.” of once-edible scraps and le overs to the facility east of the city. ere, the food waste is made into a pulp that is Rams learn to Live Green sent to an anaerobic digester where it releases methane. e university’s Live Green Team also challenged Instead of being vented into the atmosphere as a harmful CSU residence halls, dining centers and o -campus greenhouse gas, the methane is captured and used to housing complexes to a local recycling competition power the facility. during RecycleMania. e location that recycles the most wins a trophy, as well as funds to further improve Composting a ton of waste a day its sustainability e orts. e winners will be announced at the Student Sustainability Fair and Earth Day e partnership with the city was launched Feb. 4, in celebration. conjunction with RecycleMania, and the pilot phase will Miyamoto also advises the Live Green Team, an on- continue through March 30. But on-campus composting campus organization sponsored by Housing and Dining is nothing new for CSU. Another ton of food and paper Services that works on creating sustainable practices. waste is processed each day in the pulpers in the kitchens “Our hope is that students who live on campus of Braiden Hall and the Ram’s Horn, then sent to the learn lifelong sustainability habits that they carry with university’s automated composter on the Foothills them into their future lives,” Miyamoto said. “We can CSU is known as a leader in sustainability, and over a ton of campus. It returns six weeks later in a much di erent help students establish a permanent commitment compostable waste from on-campus dining halls is diverted from form. landfills daily. to sustainable living while they are at CSU, but the “ e compost program has two primary goals. e long-term inuence will be on a global scale as CSU rst is to divert food waste from the land ll and the graduates join, and will eventually lead, businesses and second, which is most important to us, is to create a organizations around the world.” Earth Week living laboratory for our students,” said Tonie Miyamoto, at’s why a er the Earth Day celebrations come to CSU will host a series of events during Earth Week, Director of Communication and Sustainability for April 18-25, to promote sustainability. This year’s an end, the food waste mitigation program will still be Housing and Dining. “ e in-vessel composting system events include an Earth Day Celebration on April 18, slugging scraps into mulch – or electricity. an Arbor Day celebration, green tours, bike parades, engages Soil and Crop Science students in the operation You can read more about the anaerobic digester movie festivals and lectures. To learn more, visit of the system and provides valuable internship and green.colostate.edu. pilot program at www.denverpost.com/environment/ research opportunities. e system also helps students ci_22602440/csu-fort-collins-divert-tons-food-hall-slop or see the full cycle of food waste from the dining centers www.news.colostate.edu/Release/6633.
CSU’s annual waste audit examines Housing and Dining services trash over 48 hours to determine what could have been recycled. According to last year’s audit, 38 percent was trash, 26 percent was recyclables and the rest was compostable. CSU Faculty & Sta Life | April 2013 7
An evening with Novelist Barbara Amazing season for CSU COMMUNITY Shapiro EVENTS Barbara Shapiro, author of “The Art Ram basketball From page 1 Forger”, will speak at 7 p.m. April by Tony Phifer 16 at the Fort Collins Hilton, 425 originals and covers with a unique The 2012-13 CSU men’s basketball team will go down as one of the best in W. Prospect. The event is free and blend of heart, humor, authenticity school history. The Rams’ season ended in the second round of the NCAA open to the public. A book signing and spirit beginning at 7:30 p.m. at and sales follow the program. Tournament with a loss to Louisville but fans won’t soon forget this team’s the University Center for the Arts. many accomplishments. Tickets for both performances Earth Week are $7 for students, $1 for youth, The Rams had advanced to the Round of 32 by dominating Missouri and $12 for adults. Tickets can be in Lexington, Ky. The Rams got off to a fast start and withstood every CSU will host a series of events purchased online at csuartstickets. challenge by the Tigers to earn their fi rst NCAA victory since 1989 and during Earth Week, April 18-25, to com. their fi rst postseason victory since an NIT win in 1999. promote sustainability.To learn more, visit green.colostate.edu.
Despite being denied entrance to the Sweet Sixteen, the Rams played a Creative Writing Reading Series season that will go down as one of the greatest in CSU history. Fans have I Love CSU Day the fi ve senior starters – Dorian Green, Greg Smith, Colton Iverson, Wes On Thursday, April 4, the series Get your green on and celebrate I Eikmeier and Pierce Hornung -- to thank. Highlights include: will host Graham Foust, an award- Love CSU Day Thursday, April 18 winning poet, and Marly Swick, ■ on the Lory Student Center Plaza. A school-record 26 victories an award-winning fi ction writer, ■ Four consecutive postseason appearances -- a record from 7:30-9 p.m. at the Visual Arts Tree Campus USA and Arbor Day ■ Building. A school-record 27 consecutive home victories Celebration Robin Becker, an award-winning ■ A school-record four sellouts at Moby Arena poet, will speak from 7:30-9 p.m. Join the CSU Tree Campus Advisory ■ The fi rst appearance in the AP Top 25 since 1954 Thursday, April 18, at the University Committee from 9 a.m. to noon ■ The highest fi nish in Mountain West play (second) in the 15-year history Art Museum. April 19 in celebration of Arbor Day of the league Students from the Department of and to honor CSU’s second year as English and the Organization of an offi cial Tree Campus USA. The So the seniors -- who tied a school-record with 81 victories in four seasons Graduate Student Writers through event includes a short presentation -- walk away proud of their many accomplishments. The whole Ram family ASCSU will present a variety of about the history of Arbor Day, the is proud of them as well. styles and genres, including fi ction, requirements of the program and an poetry and essays beginning at award presentation. The event will 7:30 p.m. May 2 at the University Art be held at Ammons Hall. Museum. All events are free and open to the CSUnity public. CSUnity is a day of service and leadership that brings the university Veterinary Teaching Hospital community together to give back Open House through volunteerism. This year’s This year’s open house will be held event will be held from 9 a.m.-3 from 6-8:30 p.m. April 5 and 9 a.m.- p.m. April 20 and begins at the Lory 3:30 p.m. April 6 at the Veterinary Student Center. To learn more or Teaching Hospital. Events include to register to volunteer, visit slice. lectures, demonstrations, displays colostate.edu. and tours through the hospital. All events are free and open to the Alternative Transportation Fair public. The Alternative Transportation Fair encourages safe, environmentally IGNITE Biodiversity friendly ways to commute to The School of Global Environmental campus and alleviate the stresses Sustainability will host IGNITE of having to fi nd parking that may Biodiversity from 5-7 p.m. on sometimes be frustrating campus. Tuesday, April 9. The two-hour The fair will be held from 10 a.m.-2 symposium features 15 speakers p.m. April 25 on the Lory Student across campus sharing their Center Plaza. scientifi c research. To learn more, visit sustainability.colostate.edu. Equine Reproduction Laboratory Grand Opening Best Teacher Awards The Equine Reproduction This year’s Best Teachers will be Laboratory invites you to the grand recognized at an awards dinner opening of its research, teaching at 6:30 p.m. Monday, April 15, in and clinical service fl agship facility. the LSC Theatre. For tickets and The event begins at 4 p.m. April 28 additional information, visit alumni. at the ERL on the Foothills Campus. colostate.edu. 8 CSU Faculty & Staff Life | April 2013 ENTERTAINMENT CALENDAR THEATER
“Ghosts” “Evil Dead, The Musical” evil, and tells the transformative story of beauty Bas Bleu Theater Company University Center for the Arts from ashes. Join these talented performers for an April 4 through May 5 April 11 through April 21 enchanted evening of dance and beautiful music This Victorian play by Henrik Ibsen, in a new Directed by Walt Jones, this Canadian pop rock in the land of happily ever after. production directed by Laura Jones, “transports musical is based on the “Evil Dead” horror film lctix.com emotional subtleties and searing social insights series. The outrageous campy satire first was first into the 21st century.” performed on stage in 2003 as a cabaret at the “Weird Al” Yankovic - The Alpocalypse Tour basbleu.org Tranzac Club in Toronto and eventually moved to Lincoln Center an off-Broadway run in 2006 followed by hundreds April 24 “The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace” of regional and international productions. One critic “Weird Al” Yankovic, the biggest selling comedy Lincoln Center for The New York Times called it the next ‘Rocky recording artist of all time, has returned to April 6 Horror Show.’ demolish the pop landscape with his new album Composed in 1999, “The Armed Man: A Mass for csuartstickets.com “Alpocalypse.” His first full-length studio album Peace” became a worldwide sensation with over in nearly five years, “Alpocalypse” charted at No. 1,000 performances in its first decade and record Canyon Concert Ballet’s “Cinderella” 9 on Billboard – the highest debut of Weird Al’s CD sales. With texts from the traditional Latin Lincoln Center storied career – and was nominated for two 2012 mass, the Muslim call to prayer, Psalms, and select April 13 Grammy Awards for Best Comedy Album and poets, “The Armed Man” takes the listener on a This performance includes Canyon Concert Ballet Best Short Form Video for the Lady Gaga parody journey from the cacophony of war to a resounding company members, along with a cast of students “Perform This Way.” message of hope and peace. from Canyon Concert Dance Center. “Cinderella” lctix.com lctix.com is a tale of identity and character, of good against
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Award-Winning Civil War author Tony Horwitz Friday Finale: In Association with the First Book Signing - Mark Fiege Fort Collins Hilton Friday Gallery Walk Johnson Hall April 1 University Art Museum April 30 Tony Horwitz, author of “Midnight Rising” and April 5 Attendees of this event will be able to meet Mark “Confederates in the Attic”, will speak at 7 p.m. The University Art Museum will extend its hours Fiege, author of “The Republic of Nature: An April 1 at the Fort Collins Hilton, 425 W. Prospect. to 8 p.m. on the first Friday in April and feature Environmental History of the United States,” which The event is free and open to the public. A book “Modern Metal: Functional Design for Life.” Drawn points to a startlingly different version of history that signing and sales follow the program. from the collection of decorative art at the Kirkland calls on readers to reconnect with fundamental Museum in Denver, this exhibition looks at metal forces that shaped the American experience. and its uses in the functional design of household items. The exhibit will run through May 18. The museum will also showcase the MFA Thesis exhibition.
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Virtuoso Concert Series Jazz Combos Concert Swing Dance University Center for the Arts University Center for the Arts Instrumental Rehearsal Hall All performances start at 7:30 p.m. April 10 University Center for the Arts April 1: CSU faculty Rachel Ellins, harp This concert will give the audience an opportunity April 27 April 2: Austin Piazzolla Quintet to see the CSU jazz students perform in a small The CSU Jazz Ensemble I, featuring director Peter April 8: CSU faculty Peter Sommer, saxophone group setting. The music performed will feature Sommer, will play classic jazz songs perfect for April 9: CSU’s Steven Marx, trumpet, and the CSU standard and contemporary jazz pieces, along dancing, including pieces by Ellington, Basie, Faculty Brass Quintet with original compositions created by students. Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller. Students from April 15: Special guests Lina Bahn, violin, and csuartstickets.com the CSU dance studio will also be featured. Swing David Korevaar, piano dance lessons, which are included in the ticket April 19: Special guest Borromeo String Quartet Spring Dance Tea price, will be offered before the event. April 22: Faculty Chamber Music University Center for the Arts csuartstickets.com April 29: CSU Faculty Susan Hochmiller, soprano April 11 csuartstickets.com This free, informal dance performance will World Percussion Concert feature the Ballet Repertory Ensemble, the Tour University Center for the Arts Robert Cavara Organ Series Dance Company and some student work as well. April 28 April 9 Refreshments will be provided. This production will showcase the CSU Percussion University Center for the Arts csuartstickets.com Ensemble, the Vasanta Percussion Quartet, and World-renowned organist Susan Landale will the CSU African Drum and Dance Ensemble for an perform at 7:30 p.m. Street Beat eclectic and high-energy concert. csuartstickets.com. Lincoln Center csuartstickets.com April 20 Street Beat combines the ancient art of drumming with the urban rhythm of modern “street” choreography. Utilizing everyday household items as instruments, they turn the ordinary into extraordinary. lctix.com CSU Faculty & Sta Life | April 2013 9 10 CSU Faculty & Sta Life | April 2013 The Fulbright Program: bringing people together by Joi Dandridge Brad Reisfeld named Fulbright Scholar or Mary Vogl and Kris Kodrch, Brad Reisfeld, an associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Fworlds, cultures, research and families Biological Engineering, was recently named a Fulbright Scholar for the 2013- converge on a regular basis. Mary, an 2014 academic year. associate professor of French at Colorado Through the Fulbright award, he will teach and conduct research at the Center State University, received her doctorate of Excellence for Environmental Health and Toxicology at Naresuan University from Indiana University in 1998. Kris, in Thailand, according to the announcement from the J. William Fulbright an associate professor of journalism and Foreign Scholarship Board. technical communication, did the same in 2000. eir two paths nally crossed when While in Thailand, Reisfeld will investigate how people - because of their both were hired at CSU in 1999. genetics, geography, climate, social structure, history, etc. - are predisposed “We both have a passion for everything to certain diseases that may not affect other people. He will also develop and international — including travel — and teach workshops and courses in computational modeling for the students and in 2010 Kris and I were part of a group faculty of the center. of CSU faculty who spent three weeks in El Maleh, who wrote about Moroccan art. He jokingly says that despite occasionally Jordan and Egypt. We both have spouses Kris Kodrick in the Andes Mountains during his Fulbright Program in Chile. Photo courtesy Kris ese experiences inspired her to apply for making up words, students didn’t rebel from abroad and our children, close in age, Kodrick. Fulbright funding in Morocco. against his Spanish-speaking skills. attend(ed) the same bilingual elementary school in Fort Collins,” says Mary. Core Fulbright program to the Fulbright “ e Moroccan-American Fulbright “I’ve spent a lot of time with both Distinguished Chairs Program. Commission organized conferences and Spaniards and Chileans, I think we were If there weren’t already enough programs, facilitating our contacts with able to bridge some cultural barriers,” connections, they’ve both also experienced Mary in Morocco libraries, research centers and Moroccan he says of his experiences abroad. “ ey the Fulbright Program, a government- In 2005, Mary received a Fulbright scholars in our elds,” Mary recalls. We understand a little bit more about sponsored cultural exchange for scholarship to spend 10 months in also interacted with Fulbrighters, faculty Americans now and I have a good professionals, academics and students Morocco, to study Moroccan art criticism and students, who were working on appreciation of what it means to be a from all disciplines. e 60-year-old in French. She had written her dissertation fascinating projects.” Chilean and Spaniard to a certain extent.” program involves more than 155 on photographic representation of North countries and awards 8,000 grants per African literature. She also spent time with Today, Mary is still in contact with Currently, Kris is conducting year. ere are numerous programs for Moroccan Jewish novelist Edmond Amran about a dozen Fulbrighters from her time research with Claudia Mellado, the host faculty involvement, ranging from the in Morocco. She served as a reviewer for who welcomed him with open arms, the Fulbright Scholar Program for history when he taught in Chile seven years and literature in North Africa and the ago. In addition, Kris is a reviewer for Middle East. Mary is also completing her the Fulbright Scholarship Program in book on Moroccan art criticism, while on Journalism. He is also the Liberal Arts sabbatical with her husband, Mohammed College Fulbright Advisor, helping other Hirchi, another CSU Fulbrighter in Jordan CSU professors and students pursue travel and Morocco. and research for themselves. Kris in Spain and Chile “I would de nitely encourage CSU faculty and students to apply (for a Kris, a double Fulbright recipient, Fulbright),” Mary says. “ e Fulbright researched as a professional in Spain experience was de nitely one of the in 1992 and as an academic in Chile in highlights of my academic career.” 2006. In 1992 Kris worked at El Pais and ABC Newspapers, learning how Spanish For more information on how to apply journalists were covering the Olympics, for and take advantage of the Fulbright World’s Fair, and the Christopher program, please contact Assistant Director of Columbus Quincentennial that year. In International Programs Karen Gardenier at Mary and Mohammed in Morocco in May 2006. Mary is in the front row third from the left and her 2006 Kris researched and taught in Spanish [email protected]. husband, Mohammed Hirchi, is in the third row, second from left. Photo courtesy Mary Vogl. at Chile’s Universidad de Concepción. Environmental Day Camp awarded for developing youth by Joanne Little eld period of time, and (Je co) Public Schools sta assist with Virginia, and comes with a $10,000 n curriculum development; Army Corps award. .S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS), demonstrate changes in knowledge, behaviors, attitudes or aspirations of of Engineers personnel provide tours “We’re piloting a 6th-grade program U4-H National Headquarters and the and supplemental learning activities USDA collaborate regularly to recognize 4-H youth and adults. and the money will help purchase of Chat eld Dam; Je co Open Space supplies to get us started,” Moore says. a 4-H Program of Distinction that ENOR campers learn about Rangers teach re science; Colorado connects youth with nature. is year’s Colorado’s natural and cultural history “We would also like to earmark some School of Mines students conduct tours to use as scholarship funds. We have honored program is Eagle’s Nest Owl’s during a week-long camp, exploring of experimental mines and educate Roost (ENOR) Environmental Day interconnected concepts with a di erent more kids apply for nancial aid each about historical and present-day mining year than we can meet the demand for Camp. e day camp has been providing environmental and social theme at practices. real-life, outdoor experiences to fourth- unique sites. through our fundraising e orts and the and h-grade campers in Je erson “As the young campers connect with grant we receive from Kinder Morgan.” For example, Colorado wildlife nature through their week outdoors County for 38 years. is explored through the lens of the For more information about 4-H 4-H Programs of Distinction are they come to a greater appreciation of Youth Development Programs of day’s theme: Beavers, through the the splendor of nature,” says Je erson peer-reviewed, high-quality, state and lens of “habitat,” are engineers of their Distinction, visit www.csrees.usda.gov/ local youth development programs that: County 4-H camp coordinator Sharon nea/family/sri/youthdev_pod_4h.html. environment. Hands-on, fun and active Moore. “ ey also learn why it is n exhibit strong program development programming is conducted as campers important to take care of it for their Colorado 4-H is a program of and contribute to the youth hike up to six miles a day on mountain own enjoyment and that of future Colorado State University Extension. development body of knowledge; terrain learning new things about generations, and how many di erent For more information, go to www. n convey new ideas, materials, or themselves and the environment around professions are involved in conservation colorado4h.org. innovative methods related to them. e orts.” Joanne Little eld is the director of positive youth development; Partners are an integral part of e selection was formally Extension Outreach and Engagement. n represent long-term program e orts e ective programming and serve announced at the North American Contact her at (970) 491-4640 or joanne. and impact data over an extended as an introduction to careers in the Wildlife and Natural Resources little [email protected]. natural resource eld. Je erson County Conference in late March in Arlington, CSU Faculty & Sta Life | April 2013 11 Culinary creations from the Kendall Anderson Nutrition Center Lemon Dill Tilapia Enjoy this fl avorful spring-time entrée - ready in just 15 minutes! Ingredients Directions 4 tilapia fi llets 1. Preheat oven to 325°F. 4 teaspoons olive oil 2. Juice one lemon and cut the other lemon into thin 2 lemons slices. ¼ cup chopped fresh dill 3. Place fi llets on aluminum foil (one fi llet per Salt and pepper to taste aluminum square). 4. Season each fi llet with salt and pepper and top each fi llet with 1 teaspoon olive oil. 5. Sprinkle lemon juice and dill on top of each fi llet. Spread additional lemon slices over top. 6. Fold aluminum foil into packets and place onto a baking sheet. 7. Bake for 10-15 minutes.
Tip: Serve tilapia with a fresh green salad and brown rice for a fast and delicious weeknight meal.
Makes 4 tilapia fi llets. Nutrition Information / Amount per serving Calories 80; Protein 7.5 g; Total Fat 5.3 g; Saturated Fat 0.9 g; Total Carbohydrates 1.1 g; Dietary Fiber 0.1 g; Cholesterol 16.2 mg; Sodium 16.3 mg
For more recipes and other information, visit the Kendall Anderson Nutrition Center website at www.nutritioncenter.colostate.edu or call (970) 491-8615. 12 CSU Faculty & Sta Life | April 2013 Hats off to Ellen Becker, a gift to Braiden Hall by Joi Dandridge for,” she says. “ ey’re our clients.” is is Ellen’s philosophy, which also he o en sits on her breaks acknowledges that students are away Ssurrounded by yarn in the from their parents, who may be worried surprisingly cozy Operations about them, and could use some homey Management o ce of Braiden Hall. comfort. She says that this is what allows Her boss would like to rename the place Braiden sta to be so close to students. “Ellen Couture.” If you walk through She even knows past students by their Braiden on a cold winter day, you might names and oors. notice that almost everyone has an article of clothing made by this bubbly woman, A topper for the guy at the top who seems to make friends everywhere she goes by leaving gi s behind. Ellen’s dream from the beginning has Operations Management Custodian always been to cra a hat for President Ellen Becker, who was 2012’s Classi ed Frank. Recently she mustered up enough Personnel Council Invisible Employee courage to nally complete her goal and of the year, has been crocheting hats did her research to make sure she had for students since 2006. Ellen has the best colors. already made 300 hats this year for Ellen made an appointment through students, RAs, construction workers, all the proper channels, and on March 7 and Colorado State University President presented Dr. Frank with the hat she had Tony Frank, to name a few. Her new goal made just for him – in green and gold, of Ellen Becker completed her goal of making a hat for President Tony Frank March 7, 2013. Photo by Nik Olsen. is to complete 620 hats for the incoming course. students in fall 2013. e number has Ellen’s time with the president went gone up because the new fourth oor of from his asking about her career at CSU Braiden will open this year. to her learning how easy-going and “Now I’m not invisible anymore grateful the president was for her hard because they caught me,” Ellen jokingly work. says as she crochets a pink hat for a Today, people are beginning to know particular student she has in mind. about the hats before they meet the Ellen has been at Braiden for 14 woman behind them and Ellen’s goals for years and still loves her job. It’s what hat making are widening. she’s always wanted to do. As a child, she “Eventually all of CSU will be lled would go to restaurants and her family with hats,” she says. But rst Ellen has to would discover that her bathroom breaks complete her project for the expanding were really getaways to clean them. She Braiden, and the rest of the president’s even took a career assessment exam that o ce, because she hates leaving people con rmed her calling as a custodian. out. Braiden’s Operations Management is also “She just has a big heart and where she met her husband; she calls the expects nothing in return,” says Ellen’s students her kids. supervisor, Tamara Riggs. “You don’t “If you want to be respected, you nd many people with those values.” have to respect the students you work
Ellen Becker crocheting one of her hats in Braiden Hall’s Operations Management Office. Photo by Joi Dandridge. CSU Faculty & Sta Life | April 2013 13 LORY | Work moves forward From page 1
What’s open, what’s moving roughout the entire renovation process, which will continue through fall 2014, these services will remain open: n CSU Bookstore n Flea Market n RamTech n CAM’s Lobby Shop n Adult Learner and Veteran Services n Student Legal Services n e University Club n e Aspen Grille n Info Desk II n Event Planning This is what the south entry to Lory Student Center will look like in Fall 2014. n e North End meeting rooms. n e North Ballroom e rest of the services in LSC Central will n Campus Activities On the east side of campus, there n Transit Center nd a new home in May, including on- n Greek Life is the INTO Café in Alder Hall. In the n Bagel Place 2 campus and o -campus locations. n LSC Administration o ces Clark Building, there will be Subway and n Recycled Cycles e James Salon is moving o -campus n O -Campus Life Spoons in the A Wing. Sweet Temptations A Sweet Sinsations co ee cart will be to Campus West. n SLiCE is another co ee resource located in the placed on the north side of the LSC, and “It’ll still take RamCash, which will be a e Career Center and the Info Desk Behavioral Sciences Building. the RamSkeller will potentially be moved great bene t, I think, for faculty and sta ,” will both have a second presence located in On the south side of campus, there is to the north side as well. Luckutt said. the MAC Gym.. the Lake Street Market, and there will be For purposes of clearly communicating e Career Center and Student Media “All of (the services in the MAC Gym) a temporary food trailer called “T-Lex” which parts of the building will be under will move to a location on College Avenue will be sectioned o ,” Luckutt said. “It’s located between the LSC and the library. construction when, the university has and Laurel Street. just going to be a big, open commune, but ree food trucks will be added to divided the LSC into three separate “ e Drake Center, which is south of everyone will have their separate areas, and campus, including one on the north side of sections: LSC Central, LSC North and LSC campus, is where we’ll hold all events that I think it will be a good time.” the Engineering Building, one in front of South. are normally held in the ballroom,” Luckutt e RamCard and Cashier’s O ce will the Clark Building and one on Pitkin Street LSC South consists of just the LSC said. “Mostly everyone else is moving to move to the Morgan Library, and so will by the Chemistry Building. eatre, which will remain open during the MAC Gym (in the Rec Center).” the First National Bank. “Right now we’re making sure the entire renovation. e organizations that will move to the everyone’s ready for the move,” Luckutt LSC North includes the bookstore, MAC Gym include: Food service still available said. “Starting aer commencement, a transit center, University Club, Aspen n e Asian Paci c American Don’t worry about where to eat, fence will go up on the east side of the Grille, Cam’s Lobby Shop, Bagel Place 2, Cultural Center Luckutt said. ere will be places to eat student center, everyone will be moved out Info Desk 2, North Ballroom and various n Black African American Cultural throughout campus during the food court and we’ll be on our way.” meeting rooms. Center renovation. LSC Central consists of everything in n El Centro At the north end of campus, students, More information can be found at www. between, and most of the services in this n GLBT Resource Center faculty and sta can nosh at the Bean sc.colostate.edu/renovation.aspx. Watch section will be relocated. In March, Fast n Native American Cultural Counter in Rockwell Hall and a co ee shop the construction as it happened at www. Print was moved to the Glover Building. Center in the MAC Gym. sc.colostate.edu/followtherenovation.aspx The importance of sleep to mental, physical health by Christina Berg minute “power nap” might help, or you can point in their lives from stress, anxiety, can be easily removed or added so you try increasing the number of hours that or environmental factors but consistent can remain comfortable during the here isn’t a clear reason why we need you sleep each night. insomnia can be a problem and can a ect night. Tsleep but science proves that it is vital n e least amount of sleep an individual quality of life. Avoid alcohol, smoking, or eating to both our physical and mental health. (unless it is a small snack) before going Physically, sleep allows the body to needs to function depends on the If trouble sleeping is something you’re individual. Some people have trained experiencing, start with the simple tips to bed. replenish energy levels. Our bodies repair n themselves to require less sleep. Studies below to help you on your way to a better If insomnia is persistent, contact your muscles and tissues and replace chemicals doctor for more information. and aging cells while we sleep. It is have suggested the least amount of sleep night’s rest: thought that our brains repair the synaptic needed to function is four hours, but this n Go to sleep only when sleepy. connections that have been shied during can also vary from individual to individual. n Try to get up at the same time every the day. Our brains organize information, Sleep deprivation is unhealthy day, including the weekends. is will reinforce memory, and solve problems as Sleep deprivation a ects both your help regulate your sleep cycle. n we sleep. mental and physical health. Inadequate Try not to nap in the daytime - OR e amount of sleep one needs varies sleep impairs your body’s ability to - consistently take a 10-20 minute by individual and with age. A minimum of maintain a healthy immune system, handle “power nap.” n seven hours is a generally recommended. stress, think, and moderate emotions. e If you can’t sleep, get out of bed and An adequate amount of restful sleep can brain isn’t able to work e ectively without do something relaxing. Try relaxation improve performance and give you the sleep, causing memory to be impaired techniques (muscle relaxation, energy to manage your daily schedule. and concentration levels to drop. Other breathing techniques, imagery, etc.) n Going to bed early and waking up early or long-term and short-term e ects of sleep Avoid ca eine in the later aernoon going to bed late and waking up late is ne, deprivation can include irritability, slower and evening. n either way. It’s really up to the individual to reaction times, hallucinations, depression, Get vigorous exercise each day, early decide what he or she is comfortable with. and even heart disease, in the day. Try to avoid exercising aer Just remember to stay consistent. 7 p.m. Christina Berg is director of Health If you are having trouble falling asleep n Institute a nightly pre-sleep ritual to Education and Prevention Services for If you experience drowsiness, even or staying asleep, a good way to start prepare you for sleep, to wind down the CSU Health Network. Contact her at during boring activities, you probably assessing the cause is to determine the aren’t getting enough sleep. If you nd and relax. [email protected] or through the pattern that leads to sleepless nights. Most n yourself tired during the day a short 10-20 Sleep in a room that is cool, quiet, dark Hartshorn Health Center. people will experience insomnia at some and comfortable. Sleep with covers that 14 CSU Faculty & Sta Life | April 2013 Gardening despite drought in Colorado this year by Beverly Henke hardness. Clay soil does, however, have great moisture mulch. You will be amazed at the improvement in your holding capacity, and I don’t recommend removing or soil over time, and how much less water you need while ost everyone in Colorado is aware that this is a dry over-amending it. producing better quality veggies. Run drip or soaker Mregion. Drought is a word that we hear more o en ere will always be those souls who are trying lines under the thick mulch and then check the soil lately. Colorado does not have any rivers that feed into to create an oasis in the desert and defy nature with before watering. I am amazed at how long the soil stays the state from elsewhere. All our water comes from their hydrangeas and lush lawns, but many residents moist, even in the hottest of summers. precipitation, and Colorado’s rivers are the source of have found the pleasure of going with nature instead We have a duty to be responsible with the world we of against her. Native plantings are beautiful and have many advantages for every living thing. Native plants need no soil amendments and, once established, minimal if any supplemental water. ese plants attract bene cial insects and support our much needed native pollinators. I see more and more front lawns that used to be a sward of green that was carefully watered, fertilized, and mowed for no real purpose except appearance, replaced by very attractive thoughtful landscaping that includes drought tolerant and native plants and stone pathways. Many of them have created special seating areas which give the neighborhood much more of a sense of community, which was nearly lost when suburban houses began to be built all alike and had no front porches for watching the world go by.
Make the most of mulch I am totally obsessed with growing as much of my have been given. Careful use of resources is a necessity. water for many other states. ere has always been a own food as possible and I have found that this can be We must begin to think more about what we are doing cycle of dry and wet years here. e pattern of dry and done with much less water than I previously thought. with our water and how we can do better. We can all do wet years is so irregular that you can scarcely call it a I am a big fan of mulching the garden. While native our part, and our gardens are a great place to start! pattern, but drought has been and will continue to be a plants prefer gravel mulch, in the veggie garden many factor in our lives. things such as, hay, straw and leaves can be used as Beverly Henke is Garden Shop Manager for Fort Gardening here is always going to have special mulch. If you have not heard of “Lasagna Gardening”, Collins Nursery. challenges. Our native heavy clay soil is quite alkaline you should look it up. It is a way of layering organic and bakes in the summer to an almost adobe-like matter to build good soil and covering the top with CSU Faculty & Sta Life | April 2013 15 Why I love CSU by Mary Willson April 18 is I Love CSU Day, so we asked some of the people who are part of the Ram family what they love about working here.
Amy Nortiar Patricia Mestas Vigil Administration Assistant—Alliance Partnership Director of university partnerships “I am actually a current student, and I love being around so much energy and positive people.” “As an alumna of CSU, I love the commitment to providing education for all students in an collab- orative effort.”
Margaret Saldana Organizational Development Learning and Assessment Andrew Cundiff Coordinator/ Graduate Student Elissa Buxbaum Catering Coordinator at Lory Student Center “Because of all the great opportunities that are afforded here. General career counselor/ Graduate assistant “I have to say the RamSkellar is something I love about CSU.” CSU is the best school in the whole world, I think.” “I love working with students with varied interests and goals”
Stratis Giannakourous Dominic Lajoie Sustainability Outreach Coordinator Front Desk Assistant SLiCE “Because it has such a strong reach across so many areas, has such a vast reach within sustain- “It’s the close community, the people really make it the positive place it is.” ability.” 16 CSU Faculty & Sta Life | April 2013