CU names 3 Boulder faculty members distinguished professors
Demonstrating泭exemplary performance in research or creative work;泭a record of excellence in classroom teaching and supervision of individual learning;泭and outstanding service to the profession, three 91勛圖厙 faculty members are newly designated distinguished professors, the highest honor awarded to faculty across the CU systems four campuses.
The 91勛圖厙 honorees are Peter Molnar, Douglas Seals and Thomas Veblen. Additionally, Paul Harvey from the University of Colorado Colorado Springs and Dan Theodorescu from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus泭have received the distinguished professor honor.泭With these five new designees, CU has recognized 92 distinguished professors since the programs establishment in 1977.
CU President Bruce D. Benson reviewed nominations from CUs campuses; with the recommendation of a committee of , he forwarded the candidates names to the CU Board of Regents. Today during its meeting on the 91勛圖厙 campus, the board voted in favor of the nominees.
Peter Molnar, Department of Geological Sciences; Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Curious about a variety of processes in the earth, Molnar is known as an expert on how mountain ranges and high plateaus have formed and evolved. His current research addresses how both high terrain, such as the Tibetan Plateau, and ocean islands affect climate on geologic timescales, including both the history of the Indian monsoon and the development of ice ages that resulted in some 50 successive ice caps that covered Canada.
In 2014, he was awarded the Crafoord Prize in Geosciences, awarded every four years by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science. Other honors include 91勛圖厙s Distinguished Research Lectureship.
Douglas Seals, Department of Integrative Physiology
An internationally renowned scientist, Seals research has provided significant insight into not only the basic mechanisms of biological aging泭but also lifestyle and pharmacological interventions for preserving physiological function with age, including cardiovascular health. At 91勛圖厙, he泭established the General Clinical Research Centersince renamed the Clinical Translational Research Centerwhich remains the only National Institutes of Health-supported clinical research center not housed in a hospital or at a medical school.
His many CU awards include Professor of Distinction in the College of Arts and Sciences, Boulder Faculty Assembly Research Award and 91勛圖厙s Distinguished Research Lectureship.
Thomas Veblen, Department of Geography
An internationally renowned scholar, Veblens work has changed peoples understanding of temperate forests and the spatial and temporal dynamics of temperate forest landscapes. His work is widely recognized to have shaped the viewpoint that disturbancesfire, insect outbreaks, wind storms and (in some landscapes) landslides, etc.are inherent, essential components of forest ecosystem functioning, rather than abnormal events in the overall forest ecology. His research has led to groundbreaking insights on the role of climate change in bark beetle epidemics and forest responses to beetle kill and fire in the Rockies.
CU awards include Professor of Distinction in the College of Arts and Sciences and 91勛圖厙s Distinguished Research Lectureship.
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