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With approval last month by the University of Colorado Board of Regents, the University of Colorado announced Karolin Luger as aÌýnewly designated distinguished professor. Being named a distinguished professor is the highest honor bestowed uponÌýfaculty across the system's four campuses.

Luger is joined by Jean Kutner of the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØAnschutz Medical Campus. The two were officially appointed the distintion at the regents' Feb.Ìý9–10 meeting.Ìý

The pair is now part of the 2022 cohort of distinguished professors, including four Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder faculty members who were announced in November of 2022: Robert Davis, Kira Hall, Rebecca Maloy and Leysia Palen. Also designated at that time were Dr. Ronald Sokol from the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØAnschutz Medical CampusÌýand Carlos Paz de Araujo andÌýDorothea Olkowski from the University of Colorado Colorado Springs campus.Ìý

Karolin Luger

Luger, the Jennie Smoly Caruthers Endowed Chair of Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry, is an internationally recognized researcher who joined the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder faculty in 2015. Ìý

She has received many honors, including a 2005 appointment to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and elections to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2017) and the National Academy of Sciences (2018).Ìý

Karolin Luger specializes in cell signaling, molecular biophysics, nucleic acids, proteins andÌýenzymology, and structural biology. Her work has yielded insights into the impact of nucleosomes on gene transcription, DNA replication and repair and other DNA-templated processes.Ìý

Luger recently answered five questions about the nature of her work, what she is most proud of in her time at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder and her initial reaction to being named as a distinguished professor.

Formal recognition

The nine-member cohort is expected to be formally recognized later this spring. They bring the total number of Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØdistinguished professors, since the title's inception in 1977, to 138.Ìý