We extend kudos this week to faculty and students who, through their work throughout the city, country and world, continue to distinguish Metro State.
Faculty
Kishore G. Kulkarni, professor of economics, delivered a keynote speech at the annual dinner meeting of 300 clients of the Investment Securities Group on Saturday, Sept. 26. The title of Kulkarni’s speech was "The current economic mess: Where did it come from and where is it going?"
Kulkarni also completed a Development Research Group study for the Reserve Bank of India (India's Fed), titled "Dutch Disease Phenomenon in Four Countries and Lessons for India's Policy Making." The study will be published in a forthcoming SCMS Journal of Indian Management.
And, as editor of the Indian Journal of Economics and Business, Kulkarni will be hosting the journal's first international conference, the IJEB International Conference on Business and Economic Issues, in December in New Delhi, India.
Students
Three industrial design students raced to a third-place finish against more than 40 other teams at the 2009 Red Bull Soapbox Race last weekend in Los Angeles. The national race for amateur drivers is a non-motorized racing event that challenges both experienced racers and amateurs alike to design and build outrageous, human-powered soapbox dream machines and compete against the clock in a downhill race. Josh McGuckin, Matt Fisher and Jeremiah Hueske competed under the name Team Speed Racer with a version of that fictional character’s car, the Mach 5. In addition to their third-place finish, the team also won the People’s Choice Award. The three students won both the competition and the People’s Choice Award last year. To read more, go to http://www.mscd.edu/newsroom/top_story/2009/sept18.shtml.
The six communication design students (Eddie Nouri, Jarrod Stanley, Mike Wheeler, Valerie Brazeau, Garrett Wieronski, and Joseph Marsh) who mentored 12 underserved high school students last summer in the Design Ignites Change project (see http://www.mscd.edu/~collcom/artman/publish/billboards_twv7081209.shtml ) are having their collective work displayed on billboards beginning Thursday, Oct. 1. There will be a digital billboard, with a rotation of all the designs, at Colorado Boulevard and I-25, and a print billboard at Speer and Alcott, just west of I-25.
