UCBRFA Spring 2021 Business Meeting

About the Presenters

David Kassoy

David Kassoy joined the Mechanical Engineering Department in 1959 , following a four year post-doctoral experience in the  Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of California, San Diego. His fields of interest included fluid mechanics, combustion science, thermodynamics, heat transfer and applied mathematics with extensive research contributions in those fields. He rose to the rank of Professor in 1977. During the period 1985-1988, he served as the Co-Director of the Center for Low Gravity Fluid Mechanics and Transport Phenomena, College of Engineering.  From 1988 to 2000 he served in increasingly responsible administrative positions in the Boulder campus Graduate School, Office of Academic Affairs and the CU System Presidents Office. He returned to his Mechanical Engineering position from 2000 to 2008 when he retired. He served as the Vice-president, President and member of the Executive Committee, University of Colorado System Retired Faculty Association (CURFA), 2009-2019, and serves currently as the CURFA representative to the Executive Committee of the Boulder Faculty Assembly.

Alan Greenberg

Professor Alan R. Greenberg received a PhD in biomedical engineering in 1978 from Drexel University. He was a NIH Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill before joining the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UCB in 1982. His research interests include polymer science, the mechanical behavior of materials and biomaterials, and membrane science and engineering. He served as associate department chair for four years and as director of the NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Membrane Science, Engineering and Technology (MAST) from 1999 until his retirement in 2015. Professor Greenberg is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the North American Membrane Society, and he has authored/co-authored numerous publications and given many technical presentations. He chaired numerous department, college and campus committees as well as technical sessions at major national and international meetings. Since his retirement, Professor Greenberg has remained active in campus activities.

The Rotundum String Quartet

The Rotundum String Quartet was formed in the Fall of 2020 at CU Boulder. It is made up of violinists Sophia Thaut and Rosalee Walsh, violist Lizzy Macintosh and cellist Ernie Carbajal. They are part of the Honors Chamber Music Program at CU and are passionate about performing works by traditionally underrepresented composers and making classical music more accessible. 

• Sophia Thaut
  Sophia Thaut is currently pursuing her B.M. in violin performance with Claude Sim and a Music Entrepreneurship Certificate at CU Boulder. Sophia has spent recent summers performing with the Junge Kammerphilharmonie Berlin at the Rheinsberg Opera Festival and the Mannheimer Kammerphilharmonie in Innsbruck as well as performing in Italy with the 2019 Fellowship Quartet at the Accademia Chigiana Global Program Academy. As a member of the Rotundum String Quartet, she is excited to find innovative ways to share music with the Boulder community this spring.
   
• Rosalee Walsh
  Raised in Ridgway, Colorado, Rosalee Walsh has always been surrounded by music. She started violin when she was six years old, with the original dream of becoming a bluegrass fiddler. However, she quickly fell in love with orchestra and developed equally as a classical violinist as well as a fiddler. Drawn to Boulder for its folk music community, she now continues her classical studies with Charles Wetherbee. Rosalee is in her third year pursuing a B.M in Violin Performance. She hopes to make a career uniting her classical and roots musical interests in education and performance. 
   
• Elizabeth Macintosh
  Elizabeth Macintosh started her musical journey at three years old when her parents signed her up for violin lessons at the local Suzuki program. When she was 14, she began playing the viola in order to form a string quartet with her pre-existing ensemble of three violins and a cello. Despite every intention to keep the violin at the center of her musical pursuits, she fell in love with the rich tone and supporting role of the viola. Her previous viola teachers include Deborah Price and Kirsten Docter. She is currently a student at the University of Colorado Boulder pursuing a major in viola performance and minors in business, economics and German studies.
   
• Ernie Wolfgang Carbajal
  22-year-old cellist Ernie Wolfgang Carbajal began playing the cello at five years old. He studies under Professor David Requiro at the University of Colorado Boulder. His previous teachers include Ronald Leonard, Daniel Grab, Glenn Grab and Beth Park Zhou. In 2019, he received recognition from the city of Los Angeles for his performance of Georges Boulane’s Symphonie Concertante with Dale Breidenthal and the Afro American Chamber Music Society Orchestra. He is honored to be performing on a Carl Becker cello, made in 1914, on loan from the Colburn Instrument Collection. Carbajal’s extra-musical interests include writing, walking and keeping reptiles and aquatic pets. 

Michele Moses

Michele Moses began her career in academia in 2000 as an assistant professor of education policy at Arizona State University and was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2005. A well-known scholar in the areas of philosophy of education, policy, and ethics, Professor Moses was recruited to CU Boulder in 2005 and was thrilled to return to CU after having received two graduate degrees here. She was promoted to Full Professor in 2011. A philosopher by training, Professor Moses has particular expertise in policy disagreements that involve race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality; moral and political values; democracy and the public good; and equality of educational opportunity. She has been serving as CU Boulder's Vice Provost and Associate Vice Chancellor for Faculty Affairs since 2019, after serving as Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs. Before that, as Associate Dean for Graduate Studies in the School of Education, Professor Moses founded CU Boulder’s Master’s in Higher Education Program. She has been a Fulbright New Century Scholar, was awarded CU Boulder’s Hazel Barnes Prize, and is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association. Her work has appeared in the top journals in her field including the American Educational Research Journal, Educational Researcher, Harvard Educational Review, Journal of Higher Education, and Journal of Social Philosophy. In addition, Professor Moses is the author of Living with Moral Disagreement: The Enduring Controversy about Affirmative Action (University of Chicago Press, 2016), Embracing Race: Why We Need Race-Conscious Education Policy (Teachers College Press, 2002), and co-editor of Affirmative Action Matters: Creating Opportunities for Students around the World (Routledge, 2014).

In her role as Vice Provost, Professor Moses aims to help foster among faculty a sense of belonging and community on campus, so that faculty members feel supported, informed, and valued. She provides strategic direction for a variety of activities associated with faculty life and academic programming on the Boulder campus centered around four key areas: faculty development and support, faculty personnel actions, academic program review, and faculty data and impact. Michele also chairs the Vice Chancellor's Advisory Committee (VCAC) and co-chairs the Academic Review and Planning Advisory Committee (ARPAC), as well as the Faculty Affairs Advisory Board, the Salary Equity Appeals Committee and the Provost’s Faculty Communication Committee. A first-generation college graduate, Professor Moses holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia, an MEd in higher education and student affairs from the University of Vermont, and an MA in Philosophy and PhD in Educational Foundations and Policy from here at CU Boulder.