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• CREATING READERS, ONE CHILD AT A TIME

  - 2008-04-06

  Barbara Swaby, Ph.D., says her life has been a series of "unexplained miracles." Local students might say she is their miracle. For 31 years the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs professor has been rescuing the futures of children doing poorly in school because they can't read...

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• University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill, who became a national figure after likening 9/11 victims to Nazis, has been slapped with a damning 125-page investigative report, commissioned by the university in response to allegations of academic miscon

  - 2006-06-19

  * University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill, who became a national figure after likening 9/11 victims to Nazis, has been slapped with a damning 125-page investigative report, commissioned by the university in response to allegations of academic misconduct. One of the five investigators recommended that Churchill be fired, while the...

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• Charles Dinarello, M.D., Member of Senesco's Scientific Advisory Board, to Make Keynote Presentation at Inflammation Conference

  - 2006-03-16

  NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- Senesco Technologies, Inc. ("Senesco" or the "Company") (AMEX:SNT) announced today that Charles Dinarello, M.D., Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado and member of Senesco's Scientific Advisory Board will make one of three keynote presentations at the upcoming Strategic Research Institute's Inflammation and Immune Diseases...

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• Vine Deloria Jr., Renowned Author and American Indian Leader, Dies at 72.(Obituary)

  - 2005-11-14

  Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 14 AScribe Newswire -- Former University of Colorado at Boulder Professor Vine Deloria Jr., author of "Custer Died for Your Sins" and an extraordinarily influential American Indian leader, died Sunday, according to colleagues and friends. He...

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• Colorado University at Boulder Sources for Hurricane Katrina.

  - 2005-09-02

  Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 2 AScribe Newswire -- The following are sources for stories on Hurricane Katrina from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Contact information is listed with each source and at the bottom of the article. ...

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• Hampshire College

  - 2005-05-01

  One full year after Gregory Prince announced he would step down as president of Hampshire College (Mass.), the trustees found a new leader--Ralph Hexter. Hexter is currently executive dean of letters and science at the University of California Berkeley and has been a professor of classics and comparative literature and...

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• Free-speech fights.(Comment)

  - 2005-03-07

  Rummaging through Yale University's library shelves in early 2001 to prepare a talk on news media and genocide, I came across a study of nineteenth-century Colorado newspapers by Ward Churchill. His research steered me to a chilling 1891 editorial in the Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer by L....

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• Phil DiStefano has taken on the interim chancellor's post at the embattled University of Colorado at Boulder

  - 2005-03-01

  Phil DiStefano has taken on the interim chancellor's post at the embattled University of Colorado at Boulder. He has been provost and chief academic officer for the past four years. DiStefano takes on new duties at a time of continuing controversy for UC Boulder. The most recent criticism is focused...

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• Churchill affair prompts shakeup

  - 2005-02-23

  Adams, Jim Indian Country Today Lakota Times 02-23-2005 HAMILTON, N.Y. - Unabating furor over Ward Churchill has led to yet another academic resignation, this time at the controversial program at Hamilton College in upstate New York where the current affair hit the...

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• Colorado Regents probe Churchill's record

  - 2005-02-16

  Adams, Jim Indian Country Today Lakota Times 02-16-2005 BOULDER, Colo. - Ward Churchill's controversy continues to flame, but the focus is shifting away from questions about his personal Indian identity to a formal look at his academic record. At a...

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