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News archive for 2008

December 31, 2008

Business Owner, Alum Contributes to UCCS Engineering Scholarships

The president of Braxton Technologies, a software engineering and design firm, will donate $50,000 to support student scholarships for engineering students at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

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December 2, 2008

Colorado Law Receives $5 Million Endowed Gift from Litigator, Quizno’s Founders

For University of Colorado at Boulder Law School students, experiential education is about applied learning—acquiring experience and skills by working as lawyers on actual, current cases for clients in need.

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December 1, 2008

National Geographic Society Grant to Reinvigorate Geography Education in Colorado

The U.S. Electoral College, soccer, and water supplies don’t seem to have much in common. But two geography faculty members at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs hope to connect such disparate topics with elementary, middle, and high school students, en route to improving student learning about the world that surrounds them.

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November 18, 2008

$1.2 Million Gift to CU-Boulder will Launch Summer Program in China

A $1.2 million gift from the Tang Fund of New York to the University of Colorado at Boulder, the largest endowed gift ever made to the Center for Asian Studies, will allow students to experience China through a new study abroad program.

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November 18, 2008

University of Colorado Denver’s School of Pharmacy Announces Building Fund Gift

The University of Colorado Denver’s School of Pharmacy today announced a $100,000 gift by local King Soopers/City Market stores to help in the construction of its new $59.5 million, 165,000 square foot building that will house the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences on the Anschutz Medical Campus.

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November 17, 2008

University of Colorado Denver College of Nursing Receives Anonymous $3 Million Gift

At a time when mental health services are shrinking, Colorado communities served by specially educated mental health nurses just received significant reassurance that this incredibly important care provided by advanced practice nurses will continue.

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November 5, 2008

Colorado Health Foundation Grant Connects UCCS Students to Community Elderly

Students in the university’s gerospsychology doctoral program, one of only four in the nation, will provide a seamless line between mental and physical health and social services under the supervision of university faculty.

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November 1, 2008

Given Institute and Aspen Given Foundation Merge

With the aid of newly enhanced staff, the Given Institute of the University of Colorado Denver will on January 1 assume all administrative and fundraising duties surrounding its free Valley-wide public lecture and health series.

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October 30, 2008

Bill and Janet Freytag Make $5 Million Endowed Gift

The University of Colorado announced a $5 million endowment gift from former Myogen CEO and local entrepreneur Bill Freytag and his wife, Janet, in support of the Colorado Initiative in Molecular Biotechnology (CIMB) at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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October 23, 2008

Gift Will Help Fund Vaccine Lab

A Boulder couple has pledged $2 million to a new University of Colorado biotechnology building, with the money going toward a laboratory where researchers will study and develop vaccines.

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