Commencement 2009
Updated May 1, 2009
May 15, 8 a.m., Moby Arena
Dr. Craig Webb, Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences at Colorado State University. Dr. Webb is a small animal medicine clinician at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital. He received his PhD in neuroscience from Hahnemann University in Philadelphia and his DVM degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
May 15, 11:30 a.m., Moby Arena
Don Law graduated with a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Colorado State University in 1975. Following college he worked as an engineer for Dowell Division of Dow Chemical and The Western Company, both of which are oilfield service companies. He also took graduate courses in the MBA program at the University of Denver.
In 1980 he quit his job at The Western Company, discontinued his graduate studies, and formed his own company, Prima Exploration, Inc. Today, Prima Exploration is active in oil and gas operations throughout the Rocky Mountain region.
Mr. Law is on the board of directors of two Denver area charitable organizations that promote educational advancement opportunities for disadvantaged youth. He also sits on the Engineering Dean’s Advisory Board here at Colorado State University.
May 16, 3:30 p.m., Moby Arena
Dr. Karolin Luger received a Bachelor of Science in microbiology and a Master of Science in biochemistry from the University of Innsbruck in Austria. She went on to receive a Ph.D. (summa cum laude) in biochemistry and biophysics from the University of Basel in Switzerland. As a post-doctoral fellow in 1997, Luger burst onto the science scene with the now classic Nature cover story (subsequently featured in the New York Times Science section) describing the structure of the nucleosome, the basic repeating DNA packaging unit in the human genome.
A native of Austria, Dr. Luger joined the faculty at Colorado State University in 1999 and has achieved numerous distinctions, including being selected one of 45 Searle Scholars in the USA, winning the Monfort Professor Award, and being named a CSU University Distinguished Professor. She is also one of 300 national Hughes Medical Institute Investigators, an appointment that comes with very substantial support for research activities. Dr. Luger is engaged in teaching undergraduates and graduate students, both in the classroom and in the laboratory setting, and her research team continues to make major inroads into understanding the main packaging principles of the human genome in health and disease.
May 16, 7:30 p.m., Moby Arena
Dr. Anthony A. Frank became Interim President of Colorado State University in November 2008, after having served the University for more than 16 years including four years as Provost and Senior Vice President. His commitment to the mission of the land-grant university was shaped by his own experiences growing up on a farm in rural Illinois, and later by his experience as a student, faculty member, and researcher. Today, he's proud to work closely with CSU's distinguished faculty, staff, students, and alumni to advance Colorado State, a major research university with a particular emphasis on involving students in research, scholarship, and hands-on, service-oriented learning.
Dr. Frank earned his bachelor's degree in biology from Wartburg College and his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from the University of Illinois. He completed a Ph.D. and residencies in pathology and toxicology at Purdue University. He served on the faculty at Oregon State University before joining Colorado State in 1993, where he served as chairman of the Department of Pathology and Associate Dean for Research in the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Dr. Frank was appointed Vice President for Research and Information Technology at Colorado State in 2000, a role he held for five years and in which he was responsible for the network and data systems of the university and for oversight of the more than $300 million in research activity that occurs annually at Colorado State. He was appointed to the position of Senior Vice President in July 2004 and was responsible in this role for coordination of the academic core of the university. In 2005, he also assumed the title of Provost, leading the Division of Academic Affairs and serving as CSU's chief academic officer. Dr. Frank was named Senior Executive Vice President in 2008, and the Board of Governors of the Colorado State University System tapped him to serve as Interim President later the same year.
He has been active in service and professional organizations throughout his career. He has served on several federal panels including appointment by the U.S. Department of Commerce to the Deemed Export Advisory Council. He also has served on the editorial board of Toxicologic Pathology and as a member of the Colorado Climate Action Panel. He was awarded the Carl J. Norden Distinguished Teaching Award at both Colorado State and Oregon State University. Dr. Frank's research interests have included toxicologic and infectious disease pathology, and he has authored and co-authored numerous scientific publications.
He and his wife, Dr. Patti Helper, have three daughters.