The CU Parents Association will present eight faculty and staff members at the University of Colorado at Boulder with the Marinus G. Smith Recognition Award at a ceremony on April 6 at 11 a.m. at the University Club Lounge.
The purpose of the award is to identify and recognize CU-Boulder faculty, instructors and staff who have made a significant impact on the lives of one or more CU-Boulder undergraduates.
The 2002 recipients are: Patricia Bruck, film studies instructor; Dennis Eckart, associate professor, political science department; Tara Friedman, CU Foundation Parent Fund coordinator; Patrick Gillham, graduate part-time instructor, sociology department; Nicole Kenneally, CU women's tennis coach; Linda Kerr-Saville, former program assistant for the Sewall Hall residential academic program now in the anthropology department; Dennis Mileti, professor and chair of the sociology department; and Lori Seward, instructor at the Leeds School of Business.
The award, now in its second year, is named for Marinus G. Smith, a Colorado pioneer who made significant financial and land donations to the university to locate in Boulder at the base of the Flatirons.
According to Peter Simons, director of CU-Boulder's Office of Parent Relations, students were asked to nominate candidates who were deserving of this recognition during Parents Weekend last fall.
For more information about the CU Parents Association's programs and activities, contact the Office of Parent Relations at (303) 492-2283 or visit the Web site at . E-mail can be sent to parents@colorado.edu.