News archive for 2010
December 13, 2010
Colorado School of Public Health partnership with the University of Denver to benefit rural schools AURORA, Colo. (Dec. 13, 2010) – As the federal government prepares to implement the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, Colorado is moving forward with local plans to implement new childhood nutrition and physical exercise programs. The Colorado School of Public Health’s [...]
Read more
September 14, 2010
Facing fierce competition for business talent, Pinnacol Assurance, Colorado’s leading workers’ compensation insurance company, is joining with the University of Colorado Denver Business School to create a new Risk Management and Insurance Program (RMI), the first of its kind in the state.
Read more
September 14, 2010
A bequest of more than $1.9 million will bolster two areas of health care research at the University of Colorado School of Medicine on the Anschutz Medical Campus.
Read more
August 26, 2010
The University of Colorado logged $25.2 million in estate-plan commitments, an increase of 700 percent from the year before. Planned giving at Colorado State University’s Fort Collins campus totaled $11.3 million, an increase of 812 percent.
Read more
August 2, 2010
Planned gift commitments, Denver campus gifts achieve records DENVER—A pioneer of the University of Colorado Boulder’s Learning Assistants program gives more than $100,000 to help innovative teaching practices reach more students. A University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) business-ethics initiative gets a seven-figure infusion. A major estate gift enhances Alzheimer’s research at CU’s Anschutz Medical [...]
Read more
July 2, 2010
An atrium in the Science & Engineering Building on the campus of the University of Colorado Colorado Springs will be named in recognition of a $1 million gift during July 1 ceremonies.
Read more
June 23, 2010
It has recently come to the attention of the University of Colorado that door-to-door salespeople have been falsely representing themselves as members of the CU orchestra raising money for a trip to Europe. The CU Foundation does not solicit donations door to door, and these individuals are not representatives of the university or the CU Foundation.
Read more
May 13, 2010
A bequest of more than $1.1 million from a former University of Colorado professor of medicine and his wife, a laboratory staff member, will help the School of Medicine’s Department of Neurology greatly enhance its research related to Alzheimer’s disease—a disease seeing spiraling incidence here in Colorado.
Read more
April 21, 2010
A formal ceremony honoring a family that includes eight University of Colorado Colorado Springs alumni and donated $1 million to a new campus events center is scheduled for 5 p.m. Wednesday on the campus of the University of Colorado Colorado Springs.
Read more
April 20, 2010
Several students in the University of Colorado Denver’s new BA/BS-MD program will receive School of Medicine scholarships—thanks to a new endowment funded by a bequest from former University of Colorado medical researcher Jean Baughman (BS ’58, CU-Boulder).
Read more