A reception to welcome new UCCS Provost Mary Coussons-Read is scheduled for 4 p.m. March 20 at the Kraemer Family Library third-floor apse.
To attend the event, please respond to [email protected] by March 13.
Coussons-Read began at UCCS March 1. As provost, she will direct the academic and research mission of the university in addition to providing leadership for student affairs functions.
Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak announced Coussons-Read’s appointment Dec. 18 following a national search that brought four candidates to campus for interviews.
Prior to joining UCCS, Coussons-Read was associate vice chancellor for research, professor of psychology and professor of community and behavioral health at CU Denver. In that role, she was responsible for encouraging growth of the university’s research enterprise and supporting faculty grant-and fund-seeking for both CU Denver and the CU Anschutz Medical Campus.
Her previous positions at CU Denver include director, Master of Integrated Sciences Program, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, interim chair, Department of Psychology, acting chair of the Department of Physics ,chair of the Faculty Assembly, program coordinator for the Bachelor of Science in Psychology, and assistant and associate professor in the Department of Psychology.
Coussons-Read has published one book and more than 30 academic articles, book chapters and scholarly reviews in addition to numerous presentations. Much of her scholarly work involves the effects of stress on the immune system and the role of stress in pregnancy.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Oklahoma, Norman, in 1989 and Ph.D. in biological psychology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1994. She completed postdoctoral training in developmental psychobiology in the departments of pediatrics and psychiatry at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, now known as the Anschutz Medical Campus, 1994-1996.
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