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Revi Sterling wins Anita Borg Women of Vision Social Impact Award
Revi Sterling, the Director of the ATLAS graduate program in Information and Communication Technology for Development, has been named the winner of the Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Social Impact Award. ABI stated that Sterling is recognized for conceiving, implementing and leading programs that have had a direct, positive and lasting impact on the lives of women. She pioneered the development of a new participatory community radio technology that enables women to create content for broadcasting, even if they are far from the station. Variants of this have been deployed worldwide. Today, she is creating a new generation of ‘academic practitioners’ who can create innovative technologies while solving difficult community development problems that continue to stymie the international development field. Revi realized the need for these practitioners based on her own research and fieldwork in Africa, India and South and Central America, where she has created and deployed appropriate and sustainable education, health and livelihood programs based upon a variety of innovative networking technologies.”
Read more about this award (and Sterling) at http://anitaborg.org/initiatives/women-of-vision/.

Ruscha Cohen named ATLAS Titan of the Quarter in January 2012
Ruscha Cohen, the graduate academic adviser for the ATLAS master’s degree in Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICTD), is the recipient of the ATLAS Titan of the Quarter award. The award is given in recognition of outstanding efforts on behalf of ATLAS. Cohen has done an outstanding job of helping master’s students navigate enrolling in the program and counseling them about course selection, practicum placements and professional development. Her work as academic adviser, which was a new position inaugurated last year, has had an immediate and lasting impact on the program. Cohen has a master’s degree from CU in Counseling Psychology and Counselor Education.

Michelle Ellsworth awarded USA Knight fellowship
Michelle Ellsworth, associate director of the ATLAS Center for Media, Arts and Performance and a professor and co-director of CU’s Theater and Dance department, has received a $50,000 United States Artists (USA) Knight Fellowship Award for her work in the field of dance. The unrestricted funds are awarded to artists at all career stages who demonstrate artistic excellence, unique artistic vision and significant contributions to their fields. “Michelle Ellsworth is a dancer, choreographer, video maker, writer, cartoonist, and Web designer,” USA stated. “In her performances, Ellsworth combines dance with technology, humorously confronting issues such as biodiversity or problems with the shrinkage of the Y chromosome.” USA is a non-profit grant-making and advocacy organization dedicated to artists working in the United States. It is funded by a variety of foundations, individuals and other organizations. Panels of experts in each artistic discipline selected the 52 winning artists from among 311 nominated applicants living in 45 states, according to USA. Ellsworth has performed at On the Boards, Seattle, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, and Dance Theater Workshop in New York, USA noted. She has received commissions from DTW, DiverseWorks, Houston, National Performance Network, and the Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs Department.

Adriane Bradberry named ATLAS Titan of the Quarter in September 2011
Adriane Bradberry, who is the design coordinator for the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT), is the recipient of the ATLAS Titan of the Quarter award.
The award is given in recognition of outstanding efforts on behalf of ATLAS. Bradberry was nominated for the award for a “sustained track record of efficiency, team support, taking every project to the next level and then some, and basically raising the bar of what is expected of an NCWIT professional.”
Bradberry generates graphic designs and layout concepts for NCWIT marketing materials and print publications. She also assists with Web site maintenance. Bradberry received her master's degree in Journalism at the Newhouse School of Syracuse University in New York and her bachelor's in Communications at Elon University in North Carolina.

Joel Swanson awarded grant for artwork
Joel Swanson, director of the Technology, Arts and Media program, has been awarded a nearly $3,000 grant through the University of Colorado Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities for an artwork that will illustrate Sol Lewitt’s essay, “Statements on Conceptual Art.”
“This essay holds particular value for those artists who work within the digital arts, where the ideas and concepts behind art-making take precedence over tangible, physical art-objects,” Swanson wrote in the grant proposal.
Swanson plans to build physical representations of the essays by building wooden structures that mimic diagramming the sentences in the essay.
The project will be displayed, along with the larger body of work, at an upcoming solo exhibition entitled “Formalisms” at RedLine Art Space in Denver (http://redlineart.org), where Swanson is an artist in residence.

Sara Preston is 2011 ATLAS Award recipient
Sara Preston, an ATLAS accountant, is the recipient of the 2011 ATLAS Award, an annual ATLAS recognition given "to the person who shoulders a heavy burden for ATLAS."
Preston, who joined ATLAS in July 2010, has been overwhelmingly helpful with new expense reporting requirements and has taken on large new responsibilities as the Boulder Digital Works moved into ATLAS.
Preston, who has a communications degree from CU, also worked at Sun Microsystems for nine years and has experience in several entrepreneurial ventures.

Vickie Stubbs named ATLAS Titan of the Quarter in May 2011
Vickie Stubbs, who is ATLAS assistant to the director, assistant building proctor and assistant event coordinator and whose duties have expanded with the addition of Boulder Digital Works into ATLAS, was named the recipient of the ATLAS Titan of the Quarter award in May 2011.
The award is given in recognition of outstanding efforts on behalf of ATLAS. A native of Georgia and mother of three, Stubbs came to Colorado to study Japanese, German and political science at CU. She has a love for languages and triathlons.

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