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SUMMER 2017 STILL RIDING THE WAVES DougDoug Fabrizio Fabrizio celebrates 30 yearscelebrates on the air 30 at years KUER. on the air at KUER. CAVE OF BONES THE UNCONDEMNED LONG LINE OF ALUMNAE POW WOW! Continuum_Summer17_cover.indd 1 5/15/17 1:41 PM Continuum_Summer17_cover.indd 2 5/15/17 1:41 PM SUMMER 2017 VOL. 27 NO. 1 32 Still Riding the Waves Doug Fabrizio celebrates 30 years on the air at KUER. 14 The Cave that Holds a Million Bones …and what it can tell us about climate change. 20 A Long Line of Alumnae Meet a family whose U heritage spans five generations of female grads. 26 32 ‘The Uncondemned’ How Pierre-Richard Prosper made international legal history. 28 Going Global A snapshot of the U’s Learning Abroad programs. 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Native American community through language, song, and dance. CONTINUUM SUMMER 2017 5 Continuum_Summer17_Scene.indd 5 5/10/17 3:54 PM UPDATES NEW PROGRAM U TO BEGIN SEARCH FOR SUPPORTS AFRICAN NEW UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT AND AMERICAN STUDENTS HEAD OF HEALTH SCIENCES On May 1, President David W. Pershing announced that he will conclude his tenure as the 15th president of the University of Utah by the end of the 2017-18 academic year. He will remain in his role until a successor is in place. “Serving as the president of this remarkable institution has been the greatest honor of my life,” wrote Pershing in a letter to faculty and staff. Appointed in 2012, Pershing has made student success his top priority. Under his leadership, the university has implemented new deeply engaged learning expe- riences (such as undergraduate research opportunities), and six-year graduation rates have risen from 59 to 65 percent. The university is attracting more students who are better prepared for college than ever before, and is doing more to support them with academic counsel and advice. Numerous outreach programs to find and assist students experiencing academic and personal challenges have been created, and the U has nearly doubled its number of scholarships and created more on-campus jobs for students. The U is launching a first-of-its-kind program Pershing had expected to announce this fall that he would finish his service at aimed at preparing African American the end of the next academic year but chose to make the announcement sooner so students for success after graduation. The the search for a new president would run simultaneously with the search for a new African American Doctoral Scholars Initiative, senior vice president (SVP) of Health Sciences. “We’d like to have a new president which begins fall 2017, provides eligible in place when we are making the final decision on a Health Sciences senior vice students with annual scholarships worth president,” says Pershing. up to $5,000, among other resources. Just days before his announcement, Dr. Vivian Lee resigned as SVP of Health The community-building program Sciences, CEO of U of U Health, and dean of the School of Medicine. During her is designed to help students develop tenure from 2011-17, the university has received national recognition for its focus skills including teaching, creating syllabi, on providing high-quality and patient-centered care, while stabilizing and reducing submitting grant proposals, publishing and costs. “Dr. Lee has led a remarkable transformation of our academic and research presenting research, etc. The scholarship operations and has been at the forefront of innovations in health care delivery,” award money may be used for research Pershing said in a prepared statement.