Honoring Our Veterans This Year’S Boot Run Will Take Place on Nov

CSULifefor Faculty & Staff november 2015 History of the Bronze Boot By: Courtney Deuschle

The Border War game between Colorado State University and the University of Wyoming is one of the longest running rivalry games in college football — this year is the 106th game — and the bronze boot trophy is a historical symbol of this annual game. So how did this tradition start? CSU Army ROTC has been at the forefront of this tradition since it began. It was a graduate of CSU, Army ROTC cadre member Maj. Vic Fernandez, who came up with the idea to use an old combat boot as the trophy in 1968. It is an authentic battle-tested boot that was worn by Cpt. Dan Romero, Sr. during his time in the Vietnam War during 1966-1967. The boot was then bronzed and mounted in 1968. The 50-year-old boot still has noticeable cuts, tears and battle scars. Every year, before the Border War game, the Army ROTC cadets from both universities run the game ball from the visiting team’s stadium to the stadium hosting the game. “The run displays the endurance and physical stamina needed for warriors going into battle, not unlike what is required of our ‘gridiron warriors,’” said Lt. Col. Channing Moose, CSU ROTC in 2012. “CSU Army ROTC cadets remain very involved in this tradition and rivalry.” Honoring our veterans This year’s boot run will take place on Nov. 6 prior to the game on Nov. 7 November 11 is the a.m. on Nov. 7. The race is based in Fort Lewis, Wash. Roll Call. Beginning at 8:30 in Laramie. The run begins at Hughes day set aside by the federal not only a fundraiser for On Dec. 4, 2004, Mitts was a.m. and continuing until the Stadium. CSU Army ROTC cadets government to honor the Veterans Scholarship killed during a combat list is complete, the volunteers will then run 40 miles to the Colorado- those who have served in Fund, it is also to honor mission in Mosul. A will read the names of service Wyoming border on U.S. Highway 287. the U.S. Armed Forces. a fallen member of the former CSU Ram, David members lost during combat The UW Army ROTC cadets will then Colorado State University, armed forces who has a is survived by his wife, from Sept. 11, 2011, to today. run the ball the remaining 26 miles to known for its wide range personal connection to Tara, and his parents, A nationally synchronized War Memorial Stadium in Laramie, of programs to serve CSU. This year’s honoree who were presented with moment of silence will take where they will then guard the trophy veteran students, offers is David Anthony Mitts his Purple Heart and place at noon Mountain until the game is over. a wide range of activities of Warrenton, Ore. He Bronze Star. On Veterans Time. See page 6 for more The first time these rival teams played and commemorations was assigned to the 3rd Day, Nov. 11, volunteers information about other each other was on Nov. 30, 1899, and throughout the month. Battalion, 21st Infantry from CSU and the Fort events and how to volunteer CSU took the first victory. The Veterans 5K race takes Regiment, 1st Brigade, Collins community will to be part of the National place on the Oval at 9 25th Infantry Division participate in the National Roll Call. INSIDE: SECRET LIFE: How do you Second Change to Dance commute? page 14 page 12 2 CSU Faculty & Sta Life | November 2015 APPLAUSE Alumni Association Two CSU employees have been or group for a nutrition education in technical and performance selected to receive BizWest program or practice that has training, creative process, and Media’s Northern Colorado “40 resulted in documented changes pedagogical practice. The Carson Eighteen members of the Ram Under Forty” award for young in behavior. Food Friends was Brierly Griffin Dance Library has Family were honored with created by CSU nearly 20 made the award every year since Distinguished Alumni Awards professionals: John Durkin, years ago and has become 2004. during this year’s Homecoming director of development for well-established in Colorado events. Longtime Health and the College of Business, and preschool programs as a fun and Exercise Science professor and Kimberly Stern, director of College of Natural effective way for kids to try new department head Gay Israel, social and digital media for the foods and enhance motor skills Sciences who is also the founder and Division of External Relations. — developing healthy habits executive director of CSU’s Heart The annual list, now in its 12th early in life as a result. Emeritus EPA representatives came to Disease Prevention Program, was year, recognizes the best and brightest emerging leaders in the Professor Jennifer Anderson campus in October to honor honored with the Distinguished CSU chemistry professor region who make a difference and Assistant Professor Laura Faculty Award. Vice President for Eugene Chen and staff member in their companies, industries Bellows of the Department Student Affairs Blanche Hughes Sheela Backen for their and communities. A recognition of Food Science and Human received the Distinguished specific sustainability-related event was held Nov. 3 at the Fort Nutrition accepted the award at Alumni Employee Award. achievements. James Jones, Collins Country Club. the annual SNEB conference this EPA assistant administrator for summer. College of Business, the Office of Chemical Safety and College of Health and Division of External Pollution Prevention, recognized Human Sciences College of Liberal Arts Chen, who earlier this year was Relations awarded the EPA’s Presidential The Food Friends programs Jane Slusarki-Harris, director Green Chemistry Challenge have received a new award of dance, was one of five people Award for his work in waste- being given by the Society for recently honored for their free, solvent-free condensation Nutrition Education and Behavior. contributionsas “Legends of reactions for biodegradable SNEB selected Food Friends for Dance in Colorado.” This year polymers and fuels. its inaugural Program Impact marks her 28th at CSU, where Award in Nutrition Education, she has developed a rigorous which recognizes an individual curriculum emphasizing versatility See Applause on page 4 CSU Faculty & Staff Life | November 2015 3 4 CSU Faculty & Sta Life | November 2015 APPLAUSE

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Conference & Event mission in Mosul. A former opportunity for faculty, data from populations that Services Open House CSU Ram, David is survived by administrative professional exhibit unusual consumption his wife, Tara, and his parents, and other non-classified staff practices. During this talk, she Nov. 4 will discuss “Consumption Lory Student Center Longs Peak who were presented with his to make changes to benefits Room Purple Heart and Bronze Star. selection for calendar year at the Extremes: Social and 1-4 p.m. 2016. You can learn more Cultural Influences,” which about your benefits from the will explore some surprising Food, fun, tours and fabulous World Unity Fair vendors who administer the ways that people interact with prizes await at this meeting Nov. 7 programs at the Benefits the marketplace, including space and services showcase North Ballroom, Lory Student Center 3-9 p.m. Fair. You will enjoy food and findings on how they acquire, including event management, fun at this educational event consume, and conserve summer lodging, registration With entertainment and sponsored by Anthem. material possessions. This and financial services, as well activities for all ages, this free event is hosted by the as information about the CSU 62nd annual community- At the Health Fair, you can get Monfort Excellence Fund and Mountain Campus. Free and wide, globally focused a no-cost flu shot for all the Office of the Provost and open to the public. event unites more than 20 your covered dependents Executive Vice President. culture and nationality groups over the age of 4; no-cost from both CSU and the Fort Native American Dishes blood pressure, pulse, height, Health Fair Collins community. Immerse weight and calculation of Nov. 20 Nov. 4-5 yourself in the rich traditions, body mass index; and a Featured at Aspen Grille alluring tastes, and the lively no-cost lipid/glucose panel North Ballroom Lory Student Center Corn, sunflower seeds, music and dance throughout (requires fasting). Other blood Noon-4 p.m. potatoes, squash, and the evening. Families are tests available for additional See Nov. 12. Registration pumpkins, tomatoes, especially encouraged to charge, cash or credit card. required. www.hrs.colostate. strawberries, and chile attend, and will find engaging Registration required. www. edu/benefits/HealthFair.htm peppers are all native to the activities for the young ones hrs.colostate.edu/benefits/ Americas and have been part from 3 to 6 p.m. at the Youth HealthFair.htm Harvest Community of the diet of Native Americans World Tour. Holiday shoppers Dinner since time immemorial. Make will love the International Nov. 20 your reservations at the LSC Bazaar run by the Fort Collins Field of Flags Aspen Grille to enjoy lunch International Center. Admission Nov. 13-20 location to be announced specials prepared by Chef free; food and drink tickets for Corner of Meridian and North Drive 6-8 p.m. Garrett Overlee that recognize sale. to the west side of the Vietnam Ron Hall and Roe Bubar, these gifts to today’s cuisine. Bridge field owners of Arikara Farm, For reservations please call Veteran Breakfast All this week, this sidewalk initiated a “Sovereignty & Food 970-491-7006 or visit lsc. Nov. 10 will be filled with miniature Project” to engage Ethnic colostate.edu/dining-at-the- Grey Rock Room, Lory Student Studies students to grow food Center American flags. Each flag lory-student-center/aspen- 8-10 a.m. represents 1,000 people for a Harvest Community grille/ included in the more than Dinner Project. Over the Honor and thank current summer they raised traditional student and community 657,000 U.S. military deaths Veterans 5K in combat since the formation and contemporary Indigenous veterans with a hot breakfast. foods that will be featured at Nov. 7 The public is welcome to of this country. This number Oval the dinner. visit and mingle. RSVP to includes the more than 4,000 9 a.m., registration begins at 7:30 p.m. deaths in the Revolutionary Registration $25. [email protected]. Last day of Benefits edu. Sponsored by Adult and War through the more than Veterans Learner Services. 6,000 deaths in Iraq and Open Enrollment Afghanistan, as well as all Nov. 20 military involvement in the National Roll Call For faculty, admin pro and non- years between. classified staff Nov. 11 Plaza, Lory Student Center For more information, go to Health Fair CSU Open Enrollment website: 8:30 a.m. Nov. 17-18 www.hrs.colostate.edu Volunteers from the CSU and North Ballroom Lory Student Center benefits/afap-open-enrollment. Fort Collins community will 7:30-11 a.m. html read the names of service See Nov. 12. Registration members lost during combat required. www.hrs.colostate. Fall Recess from Sept. 11, 2001, to edu/benefits/HealthFair.htm Nov. 23-27 today. This symbolic event No classes recognizes more than 50 institutions of higher education Monfort Professor This is an annual, nonprofit in 30 states and Washington, Lecture Thanksgiving fundraiser for the Veteran’s D.C. A nationally synchronized Nov. 18 Nov. 26-27 Scholarship fund. This moment of silence takes Monfort Professor Lecture University Holiday scholarship is awarded to place at noon Mountain Time. Kelly Martin All offices closed veterans who were honorably To volunteer, stop by the 4 p.m. , Clark A or medically discharged and Adult Learners and Veterans Women’s Basketball vs. CU are living with disabilities Serices office in Lory Student Kelly Martin, associate Dec. 2 related to their military Center, email alvs_staff@mail. professor of marketing, will Moby Arena experience. The race is also colostate.edu or call 970-491- talk about her research that 7 p.m. to honor a fallen member of examines global consumer 3977. our armed forces who has a behavior patterns influenced Men’s Basketball vs. CU personal connection to CSU. by various social and cultural Benefits and Health Fair Dec. 6 This year’s honoree is David Nov. 12 forces. She spent part Anthony Mitts of Warrenton, Moby Arena North Ballroom, Lory Student Center of her two-year Monfort Noon Ore. On Dec. 4, 2004, Mitts 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Professorship traveling was killed during a combat and collecting firsthand Open Enrollment is the CSU Faculty & Sta Life | November 2015 7 CPC wants to recognize your Everyday Heroes By Laura Snowhite The most recent Everyday Heroes and their special accomplishment are: Do you have a colleague who deserves recognition, a co-worker who Sue Sidinger, Accounting Tech III, coworker who had an injury • Nominated for his pride and makes the workplace better or someone CSU Extension (October 2015) incident while working at night. dedication to his job. Always there with a smile when others need a who just made your day? e Everyday • Nominated because she has an hand. Hero Award is a program sponsored infinite reservoir of knowledge and Marg Peters, by the Classi ed Personnel Council patience combined with a unique Equipment Donna Merwarth, to recognize day-to-day achievement Operator personal touch. Research of CSU employees. All Colorado II, Facilities Associate III, David Jimenez, Custodial I, Management State University state classi ed sta , Psychology Facilities Management (September administrative professionals, and faculty (March 2015) (December 2014) members are eligible to receive the award. 2015) is program has been recognizing • Nominated because he is that • Nominated for going above and • Nominated exceptional CSU employees since its person behind the scenes who beyond and always putting the for being dedicated, consistently inception in 1998. keeps everything clean and customer first. going above and beyond, and e process to nominate an maintained. providing great customer service. employee is simple. Visit the CPC Steve Wright, Plumber, Facilities website at cpc.colostate.edu, click on Hedy Reynolds, Management (February 2015) the CPC Awards link, then look for Administrative Asst II, • Nominated for being pleasant, the Everyday Hero Award. On the So what are you waiting for? Visit Engineering modest and having a wonderful nomination form, describe one special the CPC website and nominate Business Office customer service attitude. incident or outstanding day-to-day that special employee who (April 2015) job performance that makes your hero Doug Satterfield, Electronic deserves recognition for helping worthy of recognition. e information Specialist IV, ACNS (January 2015) to make CSU a great place to is then reviewed by the CPC Employee • Nominated because she finds work and an outstanding place ways to be of valuable assistance • Nominated for keeping critical to learn! And while you’re there, Recognition Committee. Nominations academic resources operating. are ongoing and accepted at any time. to busy individuals in her office. don’t forget to register for The CPC Communicator to stay Award recipients are interviewed by Andres Hernandez, Custodian, Russ Parrish, Pipe and informed about State Classified members of the Employee Recognition Chemistry (March 2015) Mechanical and Colorado State University Committee and their story is shared • Nominated for quick thinking Trades II, issues and events http://cpc. (with their permission) on SOURCE, Housing and administering life saving colostate.edu/cpc-communicator- the CSU news site, and CPC website. and Dining measures when assisting a sign-up/. ey also receive a framed certi cate (December 2014) recognizing their achievement. 8 CSU Faculty & Sta Life | November 2015 Open Enrollment lets faculty, admin pros, non-classified staff make benefit selections for the coming calendar year

By Pam Jackson CSU employees will continue to receive basic life, short and long-term Colder weather and autumn colors disability insurance with the university signal not just that fall is here, but that the paying 100% of the cost of coverage, season for open enrollment for bene ts is and there will be no increase in monthly upon us. premiums for dental, life insurance and Starting Monday, Oct. 26, and vision coverage. continuing through Friday, Nov. 20, Selections will be e ective Jan. 1, faculty, administrative professionals and 2016. non-classi ed sta may participate in open enrollment, the annual opportunity Beneﬁ ts Fair to make changes to their bene ts plan for e 2016 Bene ts Fair allows for the next calendar year. Human Resources a one-day, one-stop opportunity for has sent the 2016 Open Enrollment employees seeking to speak directly to Newsletter to eligible employees, detailing medical, dental, and vision vendors, along with retirement plan and ancillary bene t options and how to enroll. providers. Keeping the mainstays, Other on- and o -campus providers adding new plan by also will be on hand to answer questions, demand and include: “ is is an important year to pay • AP Council (APC) special attention to the medical plan • Food Science and Human Nutrition choices o ered,” said Teri Suhr, Human • Campus Recreation Resources Chief Total Rewards O cer. “Flexibility in medical plan choices for • Health and Exercise Science employees remains available through • Early Childhood Center the long-established Green, Gold and • Training and Organizational POS medical plans with no changes Development in deductibles or co-pays. But CSU is The dates and locations of the Health Fair are: pleased to introduce a new plan due to • Environmental Health Services positive employee feedback. It’s called • University Bene ts Committee LSC North Ballroom LSC Rooms 382-386 the Ram Plan-HDHP, a exible, high- (UBC) 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 12 Noon-4 p.m., Friday, Nov. 20 deductible health plan that allows pre-tax e Bene ts Fair will be held in LSC 7:30-11 a.m., Tuesday, Nov. 17 contributions into a health savings North Ballroom from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. on 7:30-11 a.m., Wednesday, Nov. 18 account or HSA.” ursday, Nov. 12. Suhr added that rising health care costs and increased claim expenditures Health Fair Registration and more information is available online at hrs.colostate.edu. will result in higher medical plan costs CSU is committed to supporting in 2016. CSU will absorb a large share employee health and wellness by providing u shots, preventive health of those increased costs as part of the Determining what medical plan you should enroll in can be a difficult screenings and biometrics at the 2016 University’s Cost-Share Bene ts Program. decision – but Human Resources and Anthem can help! Learn how Health Fair. to use the Medical Cost Comparative Tool at a help session in Room Employees enrolled in CSU Anthem Here’s what to expect: medical plans are eligible for free u 175 of the Morgan Library. Green Plan shots and lipid/glucose testing (fasting Tuesday, Nov. 3, 9-11 a.m. Monday, Nov. 9, 9-11 a.m. Coverage remains at no cost required). Blood screenings for thyroid, prostate, hemoglobin A1c for diabetes, for employee-only, but monthly Friday, Nov. 6, 1-3 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19, 1-3 p.m. premiums will increase $17 for and C-reactive protein to measure general employee+1 and $25 for family levels of in ammation in the body will be coverage available for $15 each. Prior registration is required for u shots and blood draws. Gold Plan Free biometrics assessments also will be Monthly premiums for employee- o ered for blood pressure, pulse, height, only coverage will increase $8, weight and calculation of body mass employee+1 will increase $34 index. and $50 for family coverage Employees participating in CSU Anthem medical plan may participate POS Plan in the university’s FITlife health and Monthly premiums for employee- nancial wellness program. only coverage will increase $15, “A $150 incentive, double last year’s employee+1 will increase $46 amount, may be earned for participation and $67 for family coverage in the health fair,” said Suhr. “However, participants must also create an anthem. New Ram Plan – HDHP com Healthy Lifestyles account, complete Monthly premiums mirror the Green Plan; CSU provides a $500 an online well-being assessment and contribution in an HSA account in a nancial retirement check-up with a calendar year 2016 CSU-approved vendor.” CSU Faculty & Staff Life | November 2015 9 10 CSU Faculty & Sta Life | November 2015 ENTERTAINMENT CALENDAR Art & Literature Music Theatre & Dance

Alyssa Hinton: Earth Hansel & Gretel, by Engelbert Superior Donuts, by Tracy Letts Consciousness and Cultural Humperdinck OpenStage Theatre and Co. Revelations Griffin Concert Hall Magnolia Theatre, Lincoln Center University Center for the Arts, 1400 Through Nov. 28 | lctix.com Opening Reception with the artist Remington St. Duhesa Gallery, Lory Student Center Nov. 6-14 | csutix.com Nov. 13, 5–7 p.m. Based on the fairy tale from the Brothers Using vibrant colors that awaken the soul, Grimm, the opera tells the familiar tale of mixed media artist, Alyssa Hinton, illustrates two children who happen upon a mysterious a theme of cultural regeneration through Gingerbread house in the woods, and are captured her unique southeastern Native American by a Witch who wants to eat them. A beautiful imagery. Her work is a provocative portrayal version of the familiar fairy tale, this production is of the folklore and history surrounding her a wonderful rst-time opera experience, especially roots, utilizing tradition and vision with a for families with little ones. Presented by the Ralph From the Pulitzer-Prize winning author contemporary edge. Sponsored by Campus Opera Center with the CSU Sinfonia. of August: Osage County comes a sticky sweet Activities and the Lory Student Center Arts comedy about a has-been hippie in a decrepit Program. Free and open to the public. Frank Waln & The Sampson Chicago donut shop and his ragtag band of regulars. When Franco, a fresh, fast-talking and Scrimmage: Football in Brothers ambitious new employee, folds himself into the American Art from the Civil Lory Student Center Theater mix, the smell of change invades the rundown Nov. 12, 7-9 p.m. storefront. Featuring donuts from Lamar’s at ramevents.colostate.edu War to the Present every performance! University Art Museum Frank Waln is an award-winning Hip University Center for the Arts, 1400 Hop artist/producer/performer. He uses his A Tuna Christmas Remington St. voice, music and performance to address the Closes Dec. 18 media’s misrepresentations of Native Americans Bas Bleu Theatre 401 Pine St. and to address the issues e ecting Indigenous Nov. 14-Dec. 27 | basbleu.org communities. e Sampson Brothers are world- renowned dancers, who strive to promote cultural “A Tuna Christmas” takes place in ctitious pride, unity, and hope by setting a positive Tuna, Texas. How can only two actors make fun example through art, education, and dance, of such a big state? First, it’s an easy target and breaking stereotypes and creating opportunities secondly, they each play 10 di erent male and for generations to come. female characters ranging from radio announcers to pre-teens to elderly aunties to a middle-aged The Silvertones woman who owns the local used weapons store. and Dickens Carolers Sing in A Winter’s Tale, by William the Holidays Shakespeare Griffin Concert Hall University Center for the Arts University Center for the Arts, 1400 1400 Remington St. e exhibition brings works from major Remington St. Dec. 4-13 | csutix.com museums and private collections by important Nov. 21, 2 p.m. | csutix.com artists from the 19th through the 21st As your thoughts turn to winter and the century including Winslow Homer, Frederic approaching holiday season, let these two Remington, George Bellows, John Steuart Curry, ensembles of the Larimer Chorale put you in omas Hart Benton, Andy Warhol, Robert the proper frame of mind with a concert that Rauschenberg, and a host of others. rough celebrates a Hanukkah, Christmas, a bountiful paintings, prints, sculpture, photography, and harvest, peace and gratitude. new-media art featured in this exhibition, football can be read as a cultural narrative that re ects attitudes and transitions in our country’s Parade of Lights preview history. ere are two nal gallery talks University Center for the Arts scheduled as part of the exhibit: 1400 Remington St. Talkin’ Success: Nov. 12 Dec. 3, 6-8 p.m. | csutix.com Robert Gudmestad, associate professor, e CSU Marching Band returns for the history. On football’s supplanting of baseball as 2015 9NEWS Parade of Lights, leading the annual America’s game. event through the streets of downtown Denver is “tale” of marital love and blind implacable Talkin’ Back: Dec. 3 on Friday, Dec. 4. Get a hometown preview when jealousy has terrible, shocking consequences, yet Linny Frickman, director, University Art the uniformed band, complete with twinkle lights, evolves into a moving recognition of love and Museum. On the art museum as a site for marches counterclockwise around the UCA. redemption. It’s also the play with Shakespeare’s discussion of sports and cultural issues. Following the parade, come inside the Gri n most famous stage direction, Exit pursued by a Lobby for a hot drink and dessert, and stay for the bear, as well as some fanciful comic invention, Free and open to the public. Annual Holiday Spectacular. story telling, music, and dance. CSU Faculty & Sta Life | November 2015 11 A portal for ideas from on-campus entrepreneurs

By Kate Hawthorne Jeracki Support from CSU Ventures In the 21st century, not all So he turned to CSU Ventures, the technological innovations come from technology transfer arm of CSU. CSU scientists working on grant-funded Ventures has helped researchers turn projects. More and more, innovation their work in science and engineering comes from people looking for a better labs on campus into marketable way to do their everyday jobs – and products, resulting in 590 inventions, technology makes it possible for them to 115 patents, 196 licenses, 30 startup share their new ideas. companies and $5.94 million in revenue Take Jeremy Podany, for example. to CSU in the past ve years alone. e director of the Career Center at But Podany’s product was a di erent Colorado State University knew, from animal. In essence, the product was his decade and a half in career services, already developed, and it was selling itself to its own very important but that there had to be a more e cient way Career Center Director Jeremy Podany and web app developer Chris White with their innovative portal for students to learn about and, more for student career advising, created at CSU and now in use by universities around the nation. Photo narrow market. importantly, use the wealth of services CSU Photography He and White created the site Campuscareerinnovations.com for other o ered by his center. type in what they were looking for and and sortable resources – which receive university career advising professionals, “Our website was, frankly, a mess,” he the site would search and sort according 13,000+ page views annually. and CSU Ventures hosts it. said. “We had 30 to 40 resources on our to those keywords. You should be able to “Based on feedback from around “ is is just one way in which CSU website that were hard to nd and hard enter as many keywords as you want and the nation, we knew that Career Tools Ventures has evolved to better serve to de ne. ere was no way for students then be able to go directly to the resource had some commercial potential, so in Colorado State’s creative faculty and to easily discern what resources were once the results are returned.” 2013 we built a version to export to other sta ,” said Todd Headley, CEO of CSU right for them.” Sounds so simple now, but in 2012 career centers,” Podany said. “We didn’t Ventures. As a result, the Career Center wasn’t there was nothing like that in university create it to make money, we just wanted Podany, who admits he’s probably able to assist as many CSU students as career advising, according to Podany. to serve students better.” an entrepreneur who just happens to be it should have. So Podany brought an at year, the Career Center’s 40 online While Podany had no desire to start good at career services, is thrilled that idea to the Career Center’s web and resources received a total of about 2,500 running his own company to market Career Tools has been adopted by more app developer Chris White that would clicks, with some getting less than 10 Career Tools, he did want to make it than a dozen colleges and universities rethink the entire process. clicks annually. available to others in his eld – and in its rst six months, and is growing in “As we talked about it, we realized With the Career Tools redesign, the making some money that could go back popularity. we needed something like Cars.com,” site now o ers students 480 searchable into the Career Center would be an extra he recalled. “Students should be able to bonus. 12 CSU Faculty & Sta Life | November 2015 Reinventing the wheel: How do you commute? is month’s alternative transportation commuter is Marilyn Morrissey who works in Sponsored Programs in the University Services Center on Howes Street. Marilyn decided not to purchase a sta parking permit this year and began using her RamCard to ride the bus from the Rolland Moore Park area of Fort Collins – for free – this summer. How many days a week do you commute by bus? I ride the bus 3-4 days a week. Usually once a week, I get an early start and decide to drive in as (on-street) parking won’t be a problem. How long does it take to commute to work? How does that compare to driving yourself?

Figuring in a two-and-a-half block Marilyn Morrissey takes Transfort to campus most days. Photo by Kyle Deuschle. walk from my house and the walk from CSU Transit Center to the USC, it takes a Do you do anything along the way, How do you prepare for your How does the cost compare to good half hour. But if you consider that either to or from campus (day care commute? Anything that is different driving and parking on campus? I just put in some exercise time, that is an stops, workouts, etc.)? than if you drove? added time e ciency. Driving to work, A tank of gas lasts longer than it used I may stop and pick up a co ee at the ere is not much di erence, other hunting for parking and walking from to, for sure. I think it is not only that I save LSC before I head up to my o ce (a er I than making sure I have walking shoes and my car to my o ce probably is no more by not commuting to work but I save by arrive at CSU). I occasionally have early preparing to take the bus a half hour earlier than 15 minutes, unless I have to park not driving at lunch time. And I think morning meetings in the Morgan Library very far away. if I have an early meeting. about what I can do by walking from and can go straight from the transit center. How do you spend your time on the my o ce since I don’t have the option of Describe your route. I’ve taken Around the Horn for stopping on my way home. Buses 19 and 7 have every half-hour meetings on campus. Although I could bus? I usually have a book with me but the routes down Shields Street. During the walk, sometimes Around the Horn is faster. What advice would you give to time on the bus is very short. e walk is summer, routes are every hour. a fellow employee who is on the the longer part. Usually I just relax for a few fence about using alternative minutes. transportation to commute? What concerns did you have before ere are a lot of options, considering taking transit to CSU? the bus lines and the MAX and Around I didn’t realize the bus would run the Horn going all the way up Centre o en enough that I wouldn’t really need to Avenue. Some people park at the south change my schedule. I can get to the o ce transit station and take the MAX in (to when I want to. campus). One of the e ciencies is that you How do you manage workday combine exercise time with commute business trips without having a time, as you will end up walking more. As personal vehicle on campus? I walk more, I’ve learned that I can get places quicker than I thought. ere are no From my o ce, I’ve walked downtown tra c jams or hunting for parking when on business and I’ve taken the MAX (bus you walk. rapid transit down Mason Street).

Tell us your alternative commuting story at [email protected] CSU Faculty & Sta Life | November 2015 13 Looking for a sign: an introduction to Fort Collins

By Jim Rodenbush back to the 1970s, tall. e further back the sign, the signs. Electric wires were moved when local leaders higher it can be. e maximum height underground and a cap has been Take a walk outside from my established allowed is 12 feet, provided it is 15 or placed on the number of billboards. o ce inside the Lory Student Center, ordinances with more feet away from the street. at these changes have stayed in and you’re instantly greeted with a nod toward Whether drivers understand, place for around 40 years is a credit to a postcard, a view of the Rocky protecting that the approach works, Shepard said. Fort Collins’ citizens, said City Planner Mountains so perfect that, at times, it picturesque e City’s philosophy is supported Clark Mapes. almost seems like a prop. It’s a great mountain view. by “Street Graphics and the Law,” “ is town clearly supports these advertisement for anyone coming to kind of quality of life things,” he said. live in Fort Collins. “It was a dramatic new way of thinking in “As far as business owners being able But during my rst day driving terms of running a municipality.” to really say, ‘Hey, we want more, around the city in September, it wasn’t bigger signs,’ this town would just the mountain view that captured my overwhelmingly say no way, you’re not attention. Instead, I found myself “We have a beautiful setting,” a publication from the American going to screw up this place.” obsessed with what was blocking that said Ted Shepard, Fort Collins’ Chief Planning Association. view. Planner. “Our forefathers recognized “ ere’s a central premise,” Shepard Nothing. that and said, ‘ is is a physically said. “It basically says, if you’re driving Jim Rodenbush is the Student What we’re missing were signs – attractive area. We want to be able to down a street at 20 mph, the human Media Adviser to the Rocky tall, giant business signs. McDonald’s see our surroundings.’ eye is really only capable of absorbing Golden Arches? Nowhere to be found. “ ere was enough political will to so much information as they whiz Mountain Student Media A towering Wal-Mart banner? Missing. say, ‘Let’s adopt a sign code.’ It wasn’t down the road. e whole point Corporation. Each month, How about a spinning, ashing popular. It was a dramatic new way on a sign code is to create e ective this space will highlight his marquee advertising anything? ere of thinking in terms of running a communication without cluttering up experiences as a new resident of were none that I could see. municipality.” the environment. Fort Collins. How could a vibrant city like Fort So, down came the big signs. e “An over simplistic way of saying it Collins manage to keep its skyline so current code is complex but there is is, ‘less is more.’ “ free of clutter? anks to help from one item that stands out: a ground sign e City’s de-cluttering a pair of city planners, I learned that alongside a street can only be 7-feet isn’t focused solely on business it was no accident. e answer goes

Tips to help you Live, Eat and Play in a healthy way FOR ALL CSU CSU has launched a new website with resources and tips on how to lead a Go for a walk or hike and FACULTY & STAFF healthy lifestyle. e site, called Live Eat enjoy the beautiful foliage. Play, includes information on exercise Whether you head to the hills and various diets, cooking tips, health to enjoy a favorite hiking trail or just 14%14% OFFOFF foods and maintaining a good work/ head out the door for a walk in your life balance. A collaboration among neighborhood, take advantage of the ALL PURCHASES the Department of Food Science and colorful scenery and cool, crisp air while being active at the same time. Human Nutrition, CSU Extension, and FOR THE MONTH the Kendall Anderson Nutrition Center, Rake leaves. it can be found at www.liveeatplay. Raking leaves is a great way to OF NOVEMBER* colostate.edu. exercise, clean the lawn, and get outdoors without having to venture Show your CSU faculty/staff ID Laura Bellows, an assistant far. Make it fun – rake leaves with *excludes kegs, cigarettes, & sale items professor in the Food Science and your children and let them jump in 1107 City Park Ave. Human Nutrition department, said the the pile! Mon. - Thurs. 9 a.m. - Midnight website has been several years in the Pick apples, or visit a Fri. & Sat. 8 a.m. - Midnight making and served as a learning lab pumpkin patch. Sun. 8 a.m. - 10 p.m. for the undergraduate and graduate Picking apples is not only students who worked on it. fun, but requires a lot of walking, campuswestliquors.com “Live Eat Play provides individuals, reaching, and carrying heavy bags of apples. Likewise, nutrition educators, Extension agents, selecting the perfect pumpkin to and public health professionals with bring home can be a process that timely, research-based information involves walking up and down pumpkin fields. related to healthy eating and activity,” Bellows said. “It also serves as a Visit a corn maze. platform to communicate research Corn mazes are fun for all ages and usually require a lot of ndings and hot topics that our faculty walking or running to find your FALLFALL are involved in. We want to educate the way through. Try a daytime corn public in a way that’s easily accessible maze for the whole family or a SAVINGS! haunted maze at night time. SAVINGS! 24/7.” Sign up for a holiday race. How to stay active in the fall During the holiday season, With cooler weather, falling “Turkey Trots” or other races are leaves, and summer coming to common. Sign up for a 5k with a close, autumn is a perfect time a friend or family member, and to play and be active outdoors. enjoy a jog in the cool fall air! With Read below for ideas from Live Eat cooler weather take advantage of Find us on social media! @campuswliquors /campuswestliquors Play on how you can stay active ways to stay active and enjoy the throughout the fall months: autumn season! 14 CSU Faculty & Sta Life | November 2015

SECRET LIFE OF CSU Aparna Gollapudi: Second chance to dance

By: Diego Felix

When o the clock, Aparna Gollapudi, associate professor of English at Colorado State University, makes up for lost time by practicing classical Indian dance — a childhood dream of hers, which until early 2014, was le unful lled. As a young girl growing up in New Delhi, India, Gollapudi can remember watching classical Indian dancers at social functions and on TV. She recalls being captivated by their graceful energy. “I always wanted to learn how to dance when I was younger, but never did,” said Gollapudi. “ en, once I got the job at CSU, got settled, both my kids went away to college, was when I decided this might be the right time to begin.” When selecting the brand of classical Indian dance to study, of which there are eight, Gollapudi contacted an instructor specializing in the southern style, Bharatanatyam, a er seeing the instructor’s students perform at holiday celebrations Aparna Gollapudi, pictured on the far left, performs a Bharatanatyam piece with two other women during a 2014 Deepavali festive in Fort Collins. Photo courtesy of Aparna Gollapudi. hosted by the India Association of Northern Colorado. Originated in the temples of “ e reason why I am so Tamil Nadu, the southernmost drawn to it is because it accesses a state in the Indian Peninsula, Spam filtering in Office 365 quintessential part of my past and Bharatanatyam is characterized by my roots,” said Gollapudi. By Dave Ho man 2. You can also change your level its elegance, elements of worship CSU hired Gollapudi in 2006, the of protection up or down if you feel and emphasis on isolated body Now that you’re on O ce 365 — same year she earned her doctorate Microso is ltering too much or not movements. Gollapudi, who now ACNS completed the all-campus email in english from the University of enough. If you do change these settings, meets with her instructor twice migration in October — you may Connecticut, and six years a er be sure to check your junk folder more a week for private lessons, said notice a few changes in how junk mail she migrated to the United States o en to see the results. she enjoys learning something is delivered. from India with her two children. For instruction on how to use these challenging. In the past, ProofPoint anti-spam Gollapudi said she is thankful to new features, you can visit the following “It kicks your butt when you so ware removed all ”de nite” spam live in a place like Fort Collins, websites. have to learn a particular movement, and quarantined the “probable” spam where opportunities to learn which may only last ve seconds, but messages. Proofpoint would send daily Bharatanatyam exist. takes an hour to get right in practice,” digest emails giving users a choice in Safe, Trusted and Blocked email “I don’t know where I’ll go with said Gollapudi. “Once you get it, it’s how to handle quarantined email. settings: this but it’s an awesome second awesome.” Starting the week of Nov. 2, spam chance,” said Gollapudi. “[Dance] is https://support.office.com/en-us/ Few colleagues know of her ltering will be handled by Microso . something that I thought was gone article/Block-or-allow-junk-email- out-of-o ce hobby and she said the “High con dence” spam will still be from my life but now it’s back. So in settings-48c9f6f7-2309-4f95-9a4d- topic of dance lessons only comes removed, but “probable” spam (rated that way it’s a gi —the fact that I’m de987e880e46 up when explaining why she cannot 5-9 out of 10 by Microso ) will be learning it now.” attend the occasional sta meeting. delivered to your junk mail folder in Junk Mail Level of Protection Currently, Gollapudi and another O ce 365. Settings: woman are preparing a piece for the As an Office 365 account holder, https://support.office.com/ IANC’s annual Deepanjali program, you can manage your junk mail in Do you or one of your co-workers en-us/article/Change-the-level- scheduled Nov. 7, at Ridgeview several ways: have an interesting hobby or pas- of-protection-in-the-Junk-Email- Classical Schools in Fort Collins. sion outside of CSU? Let us know at 1. You can check it every so o en Filter-e89c12d8-9d61-4320-8c57- She said dancing makes her feel like csulife.colostate.edu, with Secret Life and mark junk folder contents as either d982c8d52f6b part of a larger network and more in the subject line. safe, trusted or blocked. connected to her Indian ancestry. Dave Ho man is a project manager in the Telecommunications Department of ACNS. CSU Faculty & Sta Life | November 2015 15 PET HEALTH

Fall allergy woes affect our furry friends, too S AY HELLO TO HUXLEY By Dr. Jennifer Schissler All breeds of dogs and cats are Provided by the Larimer County Humane Society. a ected by allergy. e most common Do you su er from seasonal or dog breeds we see with allergic skin year-round allergies? You might be disease include: Golden Retriever, surprised to learn that pets o en do, West Highland White Terrier, Cocker too. In fact, ear infections and skin Spaniel, German Shepherd, Bull allergies, which are o en related, are terrier breeds, English bulldog and the top two reasons people take their French bulldog. dogs to the vet; these conditions are ere is no proven way to prevent among the top 10 reasons people allergies in dogs and cats. Genetics seek veterinary care for their cats, likely play a role. Early exposure to according to VPI Pet Insurance. allergens, parasites and bacteria may Allergies can be seasonal or year- in uence allergy in variety of ways, round. Environmental allergy can be but much remains to be discovered. triggered by indoor allergens, such as mold and dust mite; plant allergens, Allergy must be treated; it from grasses, trees and weeds, can is never cured irritate both indoor and outdoor Food allergy is treated with a animals. restricted diet. S ay hello to Huxley, a three-year-old Australian Shepherd mix. As in people, fall ragweed season Complete avoidance of o ending Huxley is a very energetic and playful dog. He would be a can bring about allergy ares in non-food allergens is impossible, great companion for someone who loves to be active and take pets. In Colorado, springtime allergy therefore medical therapy is him for long walks and teach him tricks and obedience. He already knows how to shake and sit and is doing well with clicker season may start as early as February, needed. Two main treatment training. Because he can be overstimulated during play it is with juniper and cedar pollination. strategies are immunotherapy and recommended that he live in a home with no children. He can be And, just as in humans, pet anti-in ammatory medications. yours for $100. allergies may be caused by food Immunotherapy is administration ingredients. Food allergy is of allergens by injection or drops identi ed and treated through an given by mouth to promote tolerance. To visit with featured pets or any other adoptable animals, stop by Larimer Humane Society at 6317 Kyle Ave. in Fort Collins. The Shelter is open elimination diet trial prescribed by Allergy testing, via blood or skin, 11a.m.-7p.m. Monday through Friday, and 10a.m.-5p.m. Saturday and your veterinarian. Of note, the vast determines the ingredients included. Sunday. For more info, call (970) 226-3647 or visit majority of over-the-counter diets do ere are several anti- larimerhumane.org. not meet the requirements of a diet in ammatory options for treatment of trial because of ingredients and/or allergies in dogs and cats. In addition, methods of preparation. there are several exciting new medications for dogs that speci cally How do you know if your target a chemical cause of itch (IL-31) pet has an allergy? with minimal side e ects. Responses Signs in dogs: to medications are individually variable, and some animals will • Licking, biting and scratching, need a combination of treatments to especially legs, feet, face, armpits, optimize response. groin and rear In addition, patients o en bene t • Red, dry, greasy, scaly, from treatments applied to the skin to malodorous skin remove pollens, correct dryness and • Scabs, small red bumps and greasiness, and prevent secondary halo-like sores; hair-loss, caused infection. by secondary bacterial infection • Scratching the ears, shaking the head, discharge/odor from the ears Signs in cats: • Licking, biting and scratching of skin, and pulling out hair • Bald patches or shortened hair • Red, raised, moist patches of skin on the abdomen or thighs • Swollen lips or chin • Severe face scratching • Small scabs on the skin, o en on the back and neck • Scratching the ears, shaking the head, discharge/odor from the ears

Diagnosis is made by ruling out Dr. Jennifer Schissler is a veterinarian other causes of itch, such as mite with the Dermatology and Otology infestation. Allergy tests are not service at Colorado State University’s recommended as the sole means James L. Voss Veterinary Teaching of diagnosis because false-positive Hospital. results are common. 16 CSU Faculty & Sta Life | November 2015 Poinsettias for sale at the new Horticulture Center and Greenhouse

By: Courtney Deuschle

e new Horticulture Center and Greenhouses on campus are now open, and students and faculty in the agriculture programs are already hard at work. e new facility replaced the original PERC building constructed in 1949. ey are now located on the corner of Bay Drive and Center Avenue. e new and improved facility has allowed for an opportunity to expand and improve research and academic programs on campus. One program that will bene t from the new facilities is the Floriculture Practicum. is program is o ered through the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture within CSU’s College of Agricultural Sciences, and Steve Newman showed U.S. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Krysta Harden around the new horticultural center during her visit in October. Below, students tend to their poinsettia seedlings. Photo by CSU Photography. one of the main projects for students in this practicum is growing and selling Poinsettias come in a range of How do you pick the perfect poinsettias for the holiday season. colors from the notorious red to a poinsettia? e scienti c name for poinsettias pastel yellow. Starting at the end of “What many consider the ‘bloom’ is Euphorbia pulcherrima, and they November, the 20th annual sale of on a poinsettia is actually a cluster of are one of the most popular plants Poinsettias will begin. e students colored leaves called a bract. Bracts during the holiday season: 1,800 plants in this program take pride in growing are red, pink, white, yellow, speckled representing more than 15 poinsettia what they see as the plant that or multi-colored. e ower of the varieties will be featured at this year’s embodies the holidays and the joy that poinsettia is in the center of the bracts. sale. they bring. explains Steven Newman, Colorado State University Cooperative Extension greenhouse crops specialist. “Choose a plant with dark green foliage and healthy bracts. Keep in mind that poinsettias with lighter colored bracts have lighter green foliage. Also, choose a poinsettia with little pollen showing on the owers.”

Once you pick up your very own poinsettia plant, follow these tips from Newman to keep it healthy throughout the season:

Keep your poinsettia near a sunny window. Since poinsettias are indigenous to Mexico and Central America, they are considered to be tropical plants, meaning they appreciate natural sunlight. Poinsettias thrive on at least six hours of indirect, natural daylight. Avoid placing a poinsettia in direct sunlight; it may fade the bract color. If direct sun cannot be avoided, diffuse the light with a shade or sheer curtain.

To prolong the color of bracts, keep plants out of cold drafts and away from excessive heat. Ideal temperatures are 67 to 70 degrees during the day and 60 to 62 degrees at night. Temperatures cooler than that can hurt the leaves and cause them to drop prematurely. Plants with pale green, yellow or fallen leaves probably have a root disease, have been watered too much, have had an excessive dry period or weren’t given enough fertilizer.

Water it on a regular basis, but don’t drown it. Check the soil each day, and water the poinsettia whenever the soil feels dry to the touch. Plants in clay pots require more water, while those in plastic pots are easily overwatered. Apply water until water runs out of the drainage hole, but don’t allow plants to sit in standing water. Discard collected water. The plants like humidity, so if it is dry in your house, CSU Faculty & Staff Life | November 2015 17 18 CSU Faculty & Staff Life | November 2015 High-powered supercomputer to boost Rocky Mountain research

By Anne Ju Manning

A supercomputer that can cut day- long computations down to seconds is coming to Colorado State University. Colorado State’s Information Science and Technology Center (ISTeC), in collaboration with the University of Colorado at Boulder, has received a $2.73 million National Science Foundation grant to purchase a state-of-the-art, high-performance computing (HPC) system. Colorado State and University of Colorado will share the purchase and support of the system, which totals $3.9 million. The system will be available to faculty, students and staff at both institutions to advance research and education. “By far, this will be Colorado State’s most advanced computing system ever,” said H.J. Siegel, Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Colorado State. Siegel also has a joint appointment in the Department of Computer Science, and is the principal investigator on the grant.

Fast performance Colorado State grant principal investigators H.J. Siegel, Pat Burns, Edwin Chong and Jessica Prenni illustrate the evolution of computer processing power leading up to the university’s latest supercomputer. Siegel is holding a 1950s magnetic core memory board; Burns, a computer punch card; The planned HPC system will have Chong, a keyboard; and Prenni, a 1980s processor board. Photo by CSU Photography. more than 10,000 cores, or processing units, with an aggregate computing capacity of approximately 500 teraflops, “We are pleased that, as a result principal investigator. core facilities in the Office of the Vice which are a measure of a computer’s of our successful collaboration with Other co-principal investigators President for Research with a joint processing performance. That makes it the University of Colorado, ISTeC can on the grant at CSU are Edwin Chong, appointment as an associate professor very, very fast. provide high-performance computing professor of electrical and computer in the Department of Biochemistry “If a scientific application that for the Colorado State campus,” said engineering with a joint appointment and Molecular Biology. The principal takes one day to execute on a high-end Patrick Burns, vice president for in the Department of Mathematics; investigator at CU is Thomas Hauser, desktop can exploit the parallelism of information technology and a co- and Jessica Prenni, director of research CU’s director of Research Computing. our new system, its execution can be reduced from one day to 10 seconds,” Siegel said. High-performance computing supports research in a range of disciplines, including physics, engineering, materials science, earth science and bioinformatics. What’s more, the new system will utilize the universities’ combined resources to ensure users access to software, consulting, best practices, HPC courses and data management services. “The architectural features of this next-generation, many-core supercomputer will enhance student learning as they design, develop, deploy, and execute applications,” Siegel said.

Multidisciplinary collaborations The system will be housed at CU in Boulder, and accessed through a fiber connection so it will perform as if it were on CSU’s local network. Other members of the Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium, various universities and research centers in several states, will also be able to access the new system, which promises to facilitate research collaborations across many disciplines. CSU Faculty & Sta Life | November 2015 19 Reframe campaign helps change conversation about violence

By Women and Gender Advocacy Center staff basis who are forced to sit in the same • Include a statement of support “We know that the only person respon- classroom with their perpetrators, and/or Victim Assistance Team sible for sexual assault is the person Reframe, a new campus-wide who are experiencing harassment or resources on your syllabus. For a who commits it — and we know that e ort, is aimed at getting community are struggling with victim-blaming sample statement go to: http://oeo. everyone has a role in prevention,” members to start thinking and acting language around them. Unfortunately, colostate.edu/title-ix-sexual-assault. Colorado State President Tony Frank di erently to help end interpersonal as a result, we lose students each said. “We also know that learning how violence. e initiative is intended semester due to drop out or transfer.” • Plan ahead for what you will do to talk about and fully understand these to help all students, sta and faculty Reframe o ers valuable tips for sta when a student discloses to you. Do issues and the dynamics around them reframe conversations about sexual and faulty to help create a less victim- you know supportive phrases and can be di cult. e Reframe campaign and interpersonal violence in a way blaming culture on campus. statements to help your student? Do is designed to empower all of us to get that teaches consent, provides skills you know the policy on mandated involved and help make our campus a for intervening and ways to respond to • When possible, allow students to reporting and who you would refer a safer place for everyone.” problematic language and behaviors. select their own small groups for student to for con dential support? “ e numbers of survivors on projects. is allows survivors to • Avoid using the word “rape” as a euphe- campus is staggering. Here, at CSU, For more information aout select people they feel safe working mism or synonym for “success/winning”. we know that 60 percent of incoming Reframe, visit www.reframe. with and avoids the potential of un- (ie. “You all totally raped that test!”) Be students indicated having some level colostate.edu. knowingly being placed in a group sure to interrupt victim-blaming lan- of rst or secondhand experience with their perpetrator. with interpersonal violence,” said guage when you hear others use it as well. Monica Rivera, interim director for the • Keep in mind that many survi- Women and Gender Advocacy Center. vors experience physiological and “Additionally, our advocates serve emotional changes a er trauma. an average of ve to seven survivors Some of these include: Di culty a week. Interpersonal violence is a concentrating, sleep and/or eating critical issue in terms of Title IX and the disturbances, ashbacks, night- retention of students.” mares, withdrawal from people and Many sta and faculty care deeply places, fear of judgment and/or fear about this issue but may not know of additional physical harm should how to best support students who have they tell anyone. experienced interpersonal violence. “Ninety-eight percent of students •When holding o ce hours, give on campus who have been harmed the student the choice for an open were harmed by someone they know or closed door or even to meet in a and trust,” Rivera said. “As a result, public space. we work with survivors on a regular 20 CSU Faculty & Sta Life | November 2015 Celebrating the Administrative Professionals community at CSU

By Tosha Jupiter Duan Ruff departments and across campus. We are “I was incredibly excited for the Assistant Director all a big Ram family – and you can feel chance to come back to my alma mater It’s a fun morning when you get of the Black/ that support every day.” two years a er graduation. My job to have a co ee chat with Kimberly African American Taé Nosaka allows me to focus on my passions Stern, Colorado State University’s Cultural Center for storytelling, relationship-building, director of social and digital marketing. Director of the Duan has Key Communities/ training, and sta development. We have Stern recently joined the members worked at CSU for really fabulous stories coming out of our of the Administrative Professional University Learning nearly three years. Communities college. Finding and telling these stories Council’s Communications Committee “Yesterday’s is my favorite part of my job, and I love to talk about ways to increase social Coordinator the past, tomorrow’s the future, but Tae has been in what they say about human connection, engagement within the Admin Pro today is a gi . at’s why it’s called the a professional role at empowerment, and advocacy. I also community. She shared insights based present. e present moments in my CSU for 15 years. really appreciate being connected to on what has worked for her team when job provide a lifetime of joy, love, and “I am living my purpose. I know the Native American community at creating community among di erent happiness.” rsthand from my own experience as a CSU. ough it is not a focus of my job, groups, and since she’s an ace social Bethany Geisert rst generation student coming to CSU being an active member of my Native communicator, she had some questions Administrative the impact of having faculty and sta community makes coming to work feel for us, too. Coordinator at the who believe in you and care for you culturally relevant, and that is extremely “So why’d you join APC, anyway?” Everitt Real Estate while holding very high expectations and important to me.” she wondered. Every committee member Center providing an environment conducive to had di erent reasons: understanding Bethany has learning. I believe in the purpose of my shared governance, increasing leadership Want to know more? worked at CSU for work because I believe that all students skills, and generally getting to know nearly two years. deserve the opportunity, the belief, and All CSU Administrative campus better were among the answers. “As a CSU Alum, it was very the care that I got.” Professionals are welcome to But everyone also nodded in agreement meaningful to come back and work APC meetings and events. You that meeting such a diverse cross section Rachael here. Doing so has really made me look can join committees, too. Learn of campus Admin Pros was a huge Johnson Assistant di erently at CSU than I did when I bene t of being involved with APC. to the Dean of the more at ap.colostate.edu. Love attended. Seeing how dedicated our sta We’re grateful to know and work College of Liberal your job? Doing something cool? and industry partners are to the next with so many inspiring people. Meet Arts for External Share your AP story with us. Email generation of leaders is motivational. some of the Admin Pros doing good Relations [email protected]. I love the people I’ve met here, and Rachael has work around campus: treasure the relationships formed across worked at CSU for 1.5 years.

Campus Trivia with Russ Schumacher

President Yates and the Spring Creek Flood of 1997 very well. Even though Rockwell wasn’t ooded, Jan said that one of the many additions to the building on Laurel Street was underway at the time. “ ey had just put up the walls, but there was so much rain, they had to take them down and start over,” Jan Many people across campus knew recalled. the answer to last month’s question: Speaking of buildings under Dr. Albert Yates was CSU’s president construction, this month we celebrate in 1997, and his Fall Address that year the groundbreaking for the University’s was the rst one to incorporate the new Biology and Chemistry Research now-traditional University Picnic on buildings with a question about CSU’s the Oval. It started as an appreciation distinguished faculty in the College of for the many volunteers who helped Natural Sciences. the University rebuild a er the massive ood in June. Q. Name the two CSU Jan Morgan, administrative professors who are assistant in the Department of members of the American Marketing in the College of Business, Academy of Arts and had her name selected at random from Sciences. Extra credit all the correct answers to receive the for the name of the one coveted CAM the Ram bobblehead who is also a member of autographed by Russ Schumacher of the the National Academy of Department of Atmospheric Sciences – Sciences. the winningest Ram to ever appear on Email your answer to csulife@ Jeopardy! – and a gi certi cate to Wild colosate.edu with November Boar Co ee. Trivia in the subject line by Nov. Jan has worked in Rockwell Hall 30. CSU Life staff will select the for 31 years – 30 of them with the winner from all the correct entries received. College of Business. So she remembers CSU Faculty & Sta Life | November 2015 21 CSU COOKS Pumpkin Alfredo

Pumpkin is typically known as a pairing for sweet items, but it can also be a delicious addition to a savory dish. Try this recipe from Live Eat Play Colorado - a delightfully different dish to bring to a Thanksgiving feast. Ingredients: Directions:

2 tablespoons unsalted butter or oil 1. Melt butter or warm oil in a medium 1 large shallot, minced saucepan over medium-high heat. Add shallot and cook until softened; 1 cup pumpkin puree 2-3 minutes. 1 tablespoon chopped fresh sage 2. Add pumpkin and sage; stir for (or 1 teaspoon dried) 30-60 seconds to combine. Add milk 1 cup low-fat milk or milk substitute and half-and-half; stir well. Bring to a simmer, reduce heat to medium low, 1 cup half-and-half and continue to cook until thickened 1/2 cup (2 ounces) freshly grated and slightly reduced; 4-5 minutes. Parmesan cheese 3. Stir in cheese, salt, and pepper. 1/4 teaspoon salt Taste and adjust seasonings 1/4 teaspoon black pepper accordingly 4. Pour over pasta of your choice.

For more information on Live Eat Play Colorado, visit the website at liveeatplay.colostate.edu 22 CSU Faculty & Sta Life | November 2015 BOOK REPORT CSU biologist captures ethics, history in sci-fi fantasy

By Sarah Sparhawk “ e really good books have of interesting ethical problems that never been the ones to inspire me come from that and then there’s a lot Wildlife biologist by trade, but because I’m always like, ‘Well, I can’t of fun battles and beast and weapons published writer by profession. do that’,” he said. “But this really and all that good stu to so I just Adam Gaylord is a research terrible book, it was like, ‘Wow, not kind of took it from there.” associate in Colorado State only did this book get published but Even his experience as a wildlife University’s biology department. at least two people read it cause I got biologist has helped Gaylord. Teaming up with Google, Gaylord it secondhand.’” “It’s where you get all the best and his lab colleagues work to map So, Gaylord started Sol of ‘beastie’ ideas,” he said. methane leaks across the country the Coliseum, an epic fantasy set Gaylord’s novel became available with the use of the Google Street Car. in another world. Sol, the main for purchase on Sept. 17 through But all it took for him to make the character, has grown up in a place Amazon and the campus bookstore. jump to sci- fantasy writer was one that mirrors the ancient Roman Aiming for “escapism ction,” book – one really bad book. Colisem of our world. He is forced to readers can expect an interesting, “I was working on some seasonal ght every day as a gladiator – until otherworldly adventure from Sol of work in Idaho and picked up a he becomes just a little too good for the Coliseum. second-hand book — it was a fantasy the main oppressive power’s liking, “ e thing I’m shooting for is for book, urban fantasy, and I read it and according to Gaylord. people to have an enjoyable time and it was just awful - just really terrible,” Although his book is fantasy, get to a di erent world and spend Gaylord said. Gaylord said much of what he writes some time there and get to know the Gaylord knew this “bad book” about comes from his own interests. characters,” he said. was something that he could improve “…I always liked the concept of Follow Gaylord’s blog to The cover art of Adam Gaylord’s novel was done upon. A big time reader and a writer death for spectacle: being forced to see tips on writing, read his by Jon Guerdrum, a local Fort Collns artist whom of mostly short stories for about a ght, not really having a choice and short stories and find out Gaylord convinced his agent to go with rather what’s next from him at http:// decade, he was inspired to begin what needing to do what you had to do than one the agent had picked out. Artwork would become his rst published adamsapple2day.blogspot. courtesy of Adam Gaylord. to survive,” he said. “ ere are a lot com/. novel. CSU Faculty & Sta Life | November 2015 23 Cans Around the Oval sets new record for donations to food bank

Cans Around the Oval this year faculty, sta and community members to raised 60,364 pounds of food and come together and make a huge impact $57,030 in cash from both the campus and di erence in the Fort Collins and and Fort Collins communities for the Larimer County community,” she said. Food Bank for Larimer County. is “Congratulations on a job well done by translates to a total impact of 345,514 everyone involved!”Friendly competition pounds of food that will go to feed the for a good cause Each year, colleges, hungry. Cans departments and Around the units on campus Oval is the and organizations largest annual throughout CSU Departments, Offices & Colleges Housing and Dining/Residence Halls one-day Larimer County 1st Place: College of Business - 1st Place: Corbett Hall Council - food drive engage in a 57,555 lbs 3,973 lbs 2nd Place: College of Liberal Arts bene tting little friendly 2nd Place: Parmalee - 2,200 lbs - 34,586 lbs the Food competition 3rd Place: Braiden Hall - 1,428 lbs 3rd Place: Office of the Vice Bank, now in to help boost President for Research – 31,741 lbs Community Schools its 29th year. In 2014, the e ort raised donations to Cans Around the Oval. 1st Place: Rocky Mountain High Student Organizations 47,470 pounds and $46,743 for a total Based on total impact – food items plus School - 37,138 lbs 1st Place: Student-Athlete 2nd Place: Kinard Core impact of 234,444 pounds of food. Part cash donations – here are the winners for Advisory Committee (SAAC) - Knowledge Middle School- of the di erence this year is that the each category for 2015. e College of 12,828 lbs 14,572 lbs Food Bank is able to purchase 5 pounds Business is the repeat top food gatherer 2nd Place: Beta Alpha Psi -1,643 lbs 3rd Place: McGraw IB World of food for every $1 of cash donated, up for the ninth year in a row. 3rd Place: Rotoract Club - 1,303 lbs School - 6,102 lbs from 4 pounds last year, explained Jenn Greek Organizations Fort Collins Community and Faith Rieskamp, program coordinate for the Overall Contest Winners: Based Organizations Student Leadership, Involvement and 1st Place: Pi Kappa Alpha - 5,966 Community Engagement o ce at CSU, 1st Place: College of Business - lbs 1st Place: First United Methodist 2nd Place: Sigma Alpha Epsilon - Church – 7,495 lbs which leads the Cans e ort every year. 57,555 lbs 2nd Place: Rocky Mountain High 1,274 lbs 2nd Place: Plymouth But with higher overall totals, the e ort School - 37,138 lbs 3rd Place: Zeta Tau Alpha- Total Congregational Church – 5,226 lbs was exceptional. “Participating in Cans 3rd Place: College of Liberal Arts – Impact 381lbs 3rd Place: Fort Collins Around the Oval allows CSU students, 34,586 lbs Coloradoan– 1,011 lbs

RemarkableRemarkable ServiceService AwardAward

KYLE MAY DINING SERVICES

Dining Services is proud to recognize KYLE MAY, Production Cook at the Ram’s Horn Dining Center, as the October recipient of the Remarkable Service Award! This recognition program honors Dining Services’ employees who demonstrate remarkable service. Kyle’s manager, Chris Connelly, notes, “Kyle has gone above and beyond his normal job duties by spending countless hours training student hourly employees; even coming in on his days off. He has taken it upon himself to learn the roles in each venue so he can jump in and help whenever needed. If he has extra time, he seeks out others in need of assistance. The constant smile on his face and positive attitude make him a pleasure to be around.”

Good job, Kyle! Congratulations! 24 CSU Faculty & Staff Life | October 2015