Excellence in teaching, scholarship, research earn designations as President\u2019s Teaching Scholars<\/i><\/p>\n
DENVER \u2013 Three faculty members from across the University of Colorado system have been named 2014 President\u2019s Teaching Scholars, each recognized as an educator who skillfully integrates teaching and research at an exceptional level.<\/p>\n
The title of President\u2019s Teaching Scholar signifies CU\u2019s highest recognition of excellence in and commitment to learning and teaching, as well as active, substantial contributions to scholarly work. CU President Bruce D. Benson solicits annual nominations of faculty for the designation, which is a lifetime appointment.<\/p>\n
New scholars this year are:<\/p>\n
Ker\u00e4nen specializes in studying and teaching the rhetoric of medicine, health care and bioethics. As Director of Graduate Studies in Communication, she also teaches the introduction to graduate study seminar for her department. She has authored numerous publications, including an award-winning book, \u201cScientific Characters: Rhetoric, Politics, and Trust in Breast Cancer Research\u201d (University of Alabama Press); her other publications address topics such as end-of-life discourse and biodefense, and she is working on a second book.<\/p>\n
Ker\u00e4nen, who joined CU-Boulder in 2003 and CU Denver in 2009, says her goal is to \u201cempower students to become lifelong learners equipped with the knowledge and skills to succeed as effective, ethical contributors to our interconnected and mediated world.\u201d Her nominator, Sonja K. Foss, professor and past department chair, wrote that although Ker\u00e4nen is \u201ca first-rate researcher and is someone who does a great deal of service in our department, on campus, and in the communication discipline, she is outstanding as a teacher.\u201d<\/p>\n
Norton, who joined the Colorado Law faculty in 2007, previously served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice and as Director of Legal and Public Policy at the National Partnership for Women & Families. She has been honored with multiple Excellence in Teaching Awards. Her scholarly and teaching interests include constitutional law, civil rights, and employment discrimination law. She is frequently invited to testify before Congress and federal agencies on civil rights law and policy issues.<\/p>\n
Her nominators, Professor Mimi Wesson and Dean Phil Weiser, noted in their letter that when Norton agreed to serve as the school\u2019s associate dean, she declined the customary reduction of course load. Her commitment to teaching, they wrote, \u201chas multiplied the credibility of her efforts to place teaching at the center of our shared mission, no matter what other contributions we may be making.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sassower\u2019s main area of interest is postmodern technoscience as applied to all the sciences and cultural studies. His scholarly publications, including 18 books, examine economic and medical theory and methodology, science and technology, postmodernism, education, aesthetics, and Popperian philosophy. His latest book, \u201cThe Price of Public Intellectuals,\u201d just came out from Palgrave Macmillan. His upcoming book, \u201cHas Science Sold Out?,\u201d will be out later this year from Polity Press.<\/p>\n
Since joining UCCS in 1986, his accomplishments include founding the Center for Women\u2019s Studies, the Film Studies Program, and the Center for Legal Studies. In recent years, he has mentored assistant professors, instructors and lecturers.<\/p>\n
\u201cProfessor Sassower\u2019s commitment to his academic pursuits is evident in his excellent teaching evaluations, lengthy publication record, and testimonies from colleagues and students,\u201d wrote Mary Ann Cutter, professor and past chair of the department. She calls him \u201can exemplary teacher, researcher, and role model to students and colleagues.\u201d<\/p>\n
About the CU System<\/b><\/p>\n
The University of Colorado is a premier public research university with four campuses: the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, the University of Colorado Denver and the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. More than 58,000 students are pursuing academic degrees at CU. Academic prestige is marked by the university\u2019s five Nobel laureates, nine MacArthur \u201cgenius\u201d Fellows, 18 alumni astronauts and 19 Rhodes Scholars. For more information about the entire CU system, and to access campus resources, go to www.cu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n -CU-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Excellence in teaching, scholarship, research earn designations as President\u2019s Teaching Scholars DENVER \u2013 Three faculty members from across the University of Colorado system have been named 2014 President\u2019s Teaching Scholars, each recognized as an educator (Full Press Release)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pressreleases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1926,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions\/1926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}