The board of regents of the University of Colorado has announced the appointment of seven scholars to the rank of Distinguished Professors, the highest honor for faculty in the four-campus system. According to the university, Distinguished Professors are tenured faculty members who demonstrate exemplary performance in research or creative work; a record of excellence in promoting learning and student attainment of knowledge and skills; and outstanding service to the profession, the university, and its affiliates.
Three of the new Distinguished Professors are women.
Kristen A. Carpenter is the Council Tree Professor of Law and director of the American Indian Law Program at the University of Colorado Law School in Boulder. Before entering academia, Professor Carpenter clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit and was an attorney at Hill & Barlow in Boston. Her scholarship – spanning topics from sacred site protection and cultural property to tribal jurisdiction and self-determination – has influenced courts, legislatures, agencies and international bodies. Professor Carpenter is a graduate of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, and earned a juris doctorate at Harvard Law School.
Marcia Douglas is a professor of English and College Professor of Distinction at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is also the associate chair of the creative writing program. Professor Douglas is an internationally acclaimed novelist, poet, and performer whose work focuses on Afro-Caribbean and diasporic literature. She is the author of several books, including
Jade Morton is the Helen and Hubert Croft Professor in the department of aerospace engineering sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder and the director of the university’s Satellite Navigation and Sensing Laboratory. She previously taught at Colorado State University and Miami University. Professor Morton is an internationally renowned expert in satellite navigation, remote sensing, and space weather. Her pioneering research at the intersection of aerospace engineering and atmospheric science has transformed how GPS and the broader family of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are used. Dr. Morton is a graduate of Nanjing University in China, where she majored in physics. She holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Pennsylvania State University.