Retired Faculty Association
Graduate Student Awards
At the April 18, 2001, meeting
of the Retired Faculty Association, the membership voted unanimously to make
awards to graduate students at each of the four University campuses. The RFA has entered into a contract with
the University of Colorado Foundation, which will administer the awards. Significant points of this contract are
as follows:
Purpose: The funds are to be awarded to individual graduate
students by the administration of the graduate programs on each designated
campus, to support their research or other scholarly and creative work.
Criteria:
1. The funds will be
distributed to designated campuses according to a schedule provided by the
Fund Administrator [the treasurer of the RFA].
2. The
students to receive the funds will be determined by the Graduate School in
which the students are enrolled, in accordance with each School’s normal
criteria and procedures for granting merit-based scholarship or fellowship
aid.
3. The name, disciplinary
area, and academic background of each student receiving an Award will be made
known to the Donor [RFA] for its information, but not for its approval of the
selection.
4. Each recipient of an Award
will be invited to present a brief summary of the scholarly work in progress or
completed with the assistance of the Award at one of the regular meetings of the
Donor.
Funding: The Fund shall be initially
established with the following gifts:
1. A cash gift of
$1,600 from the RFA. .
2. A pledge
in the amount of $1,600 from the RFA. This
pledge is anticipated to be paid in July, 2002.
3. The
membership of the Donor have approved the following distribution of the funds as
a condition for the gift:
In the year 2001,
In the year 2002,
To the Health Sciences
Center: $1,000
To the University of Colorado at Boulder, $1,000
To the University of Colorado
at Denver: $500
To the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, $500
4. The membership of the Donor association have authorized the
repetition of the cycle under 3, above, for the years 2003 and 2004, subject to
approval of the funding by the membership after evaluation of the effectiveness
of the Award during the first two years. Further
grants or changes in the amounts or scheduling of the contributions after 2004
are subject to approval by future action of the Donor membership.
5.
The Donor shall encourage its members and other retired faculty of the
University of Colorado faculty to augment this fund by direct contributions to
the Foundation.
Awardees- Spring 2002
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Jennifer Gillette, Developmental Biology
Program UCHSC |
David Grosshans, Department of Pharmacology,UCHSC |
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“The Role of Annexin II in Cancer and Bone
Development" |
“Molecular Mechanisms of Memory Forma" |
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Awardees- Spring 2003
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Manoela Borges, UCB |
Kayci Emry, UCCS |
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A Study of Favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
"Partnering school counselors with English
teachers: using themes from the existing literature curriculum
as a vehicle for classroom guidance lessons"
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Jeff Colbert, UCHSC |
Greg Bird, UCHSC |
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“Endocytosis of Tumor Necrosis Factor 1” |
"The Role of RNA Pol II in Pre-mRNA
Metabolism"
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I wish to contribute a tax-exempt gift to the Retired
Faculty Association Graduate Student Awards. Please find enclosed my check, payable to the University of Colorado Foundation, in
the amount of ___________________.
Name:_______________________________________
Address:___________________________________________
___________________________________________
Please print this page, detach
stub and return to:
University of Colorado, Retired Faculty Association,
Campus Box 80 UCB, Boulder, CO, 8-309-0080.
NOTE: The University of Colorado Foundation will respond with a
receipt, indicating that your gift is tax-deductible.