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E-InsightDecember 2005 |
University NewsUniversity Names New Associate Vice President for Economic DevelopmentThe Colorado State University System has appointed a new Associate Vice President for Economic Development who will help connect industry with University programs and research. 
Huntington Lambert, currently director of Colorado State University's Center for Entrepreneurship, will lead Colorado State's newly created Office of Economic Development. As Associate Vice President, he will coordinate activities related to technology transfer, startup companies, workforce development, the growth of educational products for the private sector and public policy aspects of economic development among many departments at the University and the Colorado State University Research Foundation. Lambert will report to Senior Vice President and Provost Tony Frank until the new Vice Provost for Outreach and Strategic Partnerships, a new position announced last week as part of a university-wide restructuring, is hired. Lambert's duties will include helping build on the University's "superclusters", which the University defines as coordinated multidisciplinary efforts among scholars with interests in common global problems. The emerging multidisciplinary superclusters on campus include biomedicine/infectious diseases; information science and technology; food, nutrition, health and well-being; and environmental sustainability. Colorado State University Names New Physics ChairmanColorado State University has named Dr. Hans Dieter Hochheimer, a Professor of Physics, as the new Chairman of the Department of Physics within the College of Natural Sciences. 
Dr. Hochheimer began his career at Colorado State in 1988. Before joining the University, he worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1986 to 1988. He was a research assistant at the University of Regensburg in Regensburg, Germany, from 1970 to 1978 and was head of the High Pressure Group at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany, from 1978 to 1986. Dr. Hochheimer studied physics and mathematics at Johann Wolfgang Göthe Universität and received his doctoral degree from the University of Regensburg in 1974. International Connections Seeking Speakers for Spring 2006You are invited to nominate yourself or someone you know to be an International Connections brown-bag lunch speaker during spring 2006. The program is seeking faculty and staff, as well as graduate students, who have worked, conducted research or participated in outreach activities abroad and would like to share their experiences with the campus community. The talks are held every Tuesday, 12:15-1 p.m., usually in the Lory Student Center, Room 208. If you are interested in participating as a speaker, or would like to nominate someone else, please send your information to: Karen.Gardenier@colostate.edu . You'll be contacted with additional details. |