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Free Reserved Seating for UNC Employees at July 4 Stampede Parade

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT

All UNC employees, retirees and their immediate household family members are invited to view the Greeley Stampede Independence Day Parade from reserved bleacher seating in front of the UNC Visitors Center on the east side of 10th Avenue.

Bleacher seating will be free and reserved for UNC employees, and will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. Please, no placeholders (such as blankets) to claim seats.

Free parking will be available in UNC parking lots on a first-come, first-served basis.

The parade is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. Wednesday, July 4. More than 120 entries fill the parade route, which runs north on 10th Avenue beginning at 19th Street and ending at 5th Street.

For more information, visit the Greeley Stampede website.

Faculty, Staff, Grad Students Sought for Summer Safe Zone Trainings

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The GLBTA Resource Office seeks faculty, staff and graduate students to help grow a visible and supportive campus network of allies to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities by participating in one of the office's upcoming Safe Zone training sessions. The next session will be 1-4 p.m. Monday, June 11. Another session will be offered 1-4 p.m. Monday, July 30. The training informs participants about issues surrounding the GLBTQ communities and how they can be supportive allies. To register for a training session and find out the location, contact Jael Esquibel, 351-2906.

Bear Logic FY12 Deadlines

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The last day to order a computer to be purchased with FY12 funds is Friday, June 8. All in-stock items may be purchased with an EIO up to June 29. The last day to use your UNC Card for for FY12 Bear Logic purchases is June 20.

UNC Today Summer Publication Schedule

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT

UNC Today will continue to be published Monday through Friday through the summer provided there are campus announcements to share.

To submit an announcement, use the online form. Upcoming events, including important deadlines, should be added to the online calendar.

Reminder: UNC Has a Social Media Portal

Wed, 30 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

UNC now has a social media portal at www.unco.edu/social/ containing links to approved social media pages for UNC programs, departments, offices and other entities. If you have an active Facebook, Twitter, Flickr or other social media page you would like listed on the portal, visit Web Communications' website to find out how to get it added.

The site contains the required approval form to create social media pages, guidelines and best practices for creating them, and a training video.

Students, alumni and employees are encouraged to contribute posts to UNC's Facebook page.

Tribute Concert to Honor Former Music Professor

Tue, 29 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

All members of the university community are invited to a tribute concert honoring former School of Music Professor Derryl Goes from 7-9 p.m. Sunday, June 3, in the Garden Theatre. Goes, who passed away April 9, guided the percussion program for 18 years before retiring in 1983 with emeritus faculty status.

The Dean Bushnell Orchestra will play big band ballroom swing selections arranged by Goes during the 40 years he played with the group. An obituary is available here.

UNC Faculty Member Receives $421,000 Grant from American Cancer Society

Tue, 29 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

A University of Northern Colorado associate professor has been awarded a three-year, $421,000 grant from the American Cancer Society to research strategies for minimizing the side effects of chemotherapy.

David Hydock, Ph.D., and UNC researchers will study the factors that lead to severe fatigue in cancer patients being treated with the drug doxorubicin. The researchers will also continue investigating the benefits of exercise in impaired heart and skeletal muscle function — common side effects of the treatment.

Joining Hydock, an associate professor in the School of Sport and Exercise Science, will be his mentor, Professor Reid Hayward, and two doctorate students, Eric Bredahl and Noah Gibson.

For 10 years, Hayward has been researching impaired cardiac function resulting from doxorubicin and the benefits of exercise. He was the first person in the field to conduct this type of research.

Hydock and the team will first investigate cardiac functionality and muscle functionality in a rat model, after doxorubicin has been introduced. Hydock and Hayward hope this will begin to reveal the specific elements of the drug that create such intense side effects in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy.

The second phase of the project explores the effects endurance and resistance forms of exercise have on muscle toxicity in a rat model. Through this research, the team hopes to discover new ways cancer patients can properly manage side effects of chemotherapy.

The project will begin July 1.

About the grant
The American Cancer Society Mentored Research Scholar Grant in Applied and Clinical Research provides support for mentored research and training to full-time junior faculty, typically within the initial four years of their first independent appointment. The goal is for these beginning investigators to become independent researchers as either clinical scientists or cancer control and prevention researchers. The title of Hydock's collaborative research (classified as MRSG-12-179-01-PCSM from the American Cancer Society) is "Doxurubicin Treatment and Skeletal Muscle Function: Effects of Exercise."

UNC Around the World

Fri, 25 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Save the Date: Student Employer Training June 22

Fri, 25 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Employees who interview, hire, supervise or work in any capacity with student employees (hourly, salaried or work study) and who are new to UNC within the last year are strongly encouraged by the Office of Student Employment to attend the Student Employer Training session from 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Friday, June 22, in the Gunter Hall auditorium (room 1720).

Topics covered will include work study, I-9 forms and injury reporting, hiring of international students, payroll overview and forms, hiring students through the online job bank and EPAF submissions, or any other student employment topics you would like covered.

A continental breakfast and lunch will be provided. Please RSVP to Cynthia Harling by Monday, June 18.

Campus Parking Lot Re-Striping to Begin June 6

Fri, 25 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Parking Services has purchased a painting machine and will be re-striping several campus parking lots as well as all crosswalks, stop bars, center lines and directional arrows starting June 6. Please respect posted lot closures and exercise caution on roadways when re-striping is being done to help ensure the project is completed efficiently and safely. The schedule, which is weather-dependent, is:

All crosswalks, stop bars, center lines and directional arrows: June 11-15
J-lot, row 1-5: June 6
J-lot, row 6-10: June 13
V-lot: June 18
T-lot: June 19
U-lot: June 20
Z-East: June 20
UC loading dock: June 22 (closed one-half day)

Whenever feasible, sections of parking lots will be re-opened once they have been re-striped while work continues on other sections.

If you have any questions or concerns, contact Parking Services Office at 351-1971.

UNC Closed May 28 for Memorial Day

Fri, 25 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

University of Northern Colorado administrative offices will be closed and there will be no classes on Monday, May 28, in observance of Memorial Day. To contact specific university departments for information about schedules and services available on holidays, visit http://www.unco.edu/contact.shtml.

Defenses of Dissertations and Oral Comp Exams

Fri, 25 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Emergency Alert System to be Tested May 30

Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

A test of UNC's Emergency Alert Messaging System will be conducted about noon Wednesday, May 30. The test message will be sent to UNC email accounts, to text-enabled office phones and via text and voice messages to subscribed cell phones. For instructions on signing up your cell phone to receive emergency alert messages, visit the Emergency Alert System website.

Year-End Purchase Order Procedures

Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Purchasing and Contracts reminds those responsible for preparing purchase requisitions that June 13 is the deadline to transfer current fiscal year standing purchase orders to the new fiscal year. For other important deadlines and complete information about year-end purchase order procedures such as reviewing outstanding purchase order encumbrances and closing standing or regular purchase orders, please consult the Year-End Purchase Order/Encumbrance Procedure Guide FY12 on the Purchasing and Contracts website.

If you have questions, please contact Morgan Gray, 351-2287.

Tickets Now Available for 2012 Little Theatre of the Rockies Performances

Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Individual performance tickets and season subscriptions are now available for the 2012 season of UNC's Little Theatre of the Rockies, the oldest continually operating professional theater company in Colorado and one of the oldest in the nation. The season opens June 7 with the comedy The Boys Next Door, directed by Tom McNally. For the season schedule, performance synopses, casts and ticket information, visit the LTR web page.

Student Employee Accounts Expire May 31

Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

All student employee accounts (firstname.lastname@unco.edu) are set to expire May. 31. If you have student employees who will be working this summer and would like their account access extended through Aug. 31, send an email to Technical Support with the student's first and last name (e.g., John Doe).

Additionally, include the names of students who are no longer working for your department with the word "Delete" (e.g., John Doe - Delete) so their access to employee resources can be removed.

Do not include students' Bear Numbers.

If you have any questions, contact Technical Support, 351-4357.

UNC Graduate Program Ranks Top 5 Worldwide

Wed, 23 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

UNC's Sport Administration graduate program is one of only two U.S. universities to earn top 5 standing among sport management programs around the world in the first-ever rankings by SportBusiness International magazine, the leading publication covering the international sport business community. Continue Reading.

UNC Graduate Program Ranks Top 5 Worldwide

Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The Sport Administration graduate program at the University of Northern Colorado earned a top 5 worldwide ranking from the leading publication covering the international sport business community.

UNC is one of only two U.S. universities to make the top 5 in SportBusiness International magazine's first-ever ranking of sport management courses around the world.

"I'm extremely honored for us to be so highly ranked," said David Stotlar, director of College of Natural and Health Sciences' School of Sport and Exercise Science. "It's a great tribute not only to our faculty but to the great success our graduates have achieved."

To be eligible for consideration in the rankings, graduate programs had to focus on covering the sport business in its entirety and, at a minimum, offer curriculum for no fewer than three consecutive years.

Course providers were asked to supply data on graduates employed after completing the program and other facts and figures, including course length and student demographics.

Alumni also were surveyed about the quality of teaching and support in career placement in the sports industry.

At UNC, 30 graduate students enroll annually in Sport Administration, which has been offered as a graduate program since 1988. Within three months after earning their degrees, nearly eight out of 10 graduates are employed full time in the sports industry.

UNC graduates currently working in the sector have taken positions in the NBA, NFL, Major League Baseball, Major League Soccer, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympics, and in numerous college athletic departments.

Sport Administration faculty include Stotlar, Dianna Gray and Linda Sharp. They teach program courses on sport management, law, ethics, marketing, finance and public relations. For more information about the program, visit http://www.unco.edu/nhs/ses/ms_sa.htm

Postgraduate Sports Course Ranking 2012
Sport Business International

Ohio University
The International Centre for Sports Studies (Switzerland)
Windsor University (Canada)
Coventry University (United Kingdom)
University of Northern Colorado

Cisco VPN System to be Retired This Morning

Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Information Management and Technology will be retiring the legacy Cisco VPN from service today, May 24. Anyone currently still using the Cisco desktop VPN service will need to use the SSL VPN at https://remote.unco.edu for remote access to campus computing resources starting today. For technical assistance with the SSL VPN, contact the Technical Support Center at 351-4357 or search for "SSL VPN" on the IM&T Knowledge Base.

Hands-On Arts Program Offers Summer Enrichment

Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The College of Performing and Visual Arts' Office of Community Arts offers opportunities for all ages and interests to enjoy the pleasure and excitement of new knowledge and personal creation through its summer Hands-On Arts program.

Classes start soon and activities are scheduled throughout the summer, whether you want to pick up a new hobby, learn how to play a musical instrument, hear all about the opera "La Boheme" or bring out your creativity in an art class.

Pre-registration two days in advance is required for all activities and can be made by calling 351-2200.

For a complete schedule and details, visit the Hands-On Arts website.