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Message from the University
of Colorado System President
The University of Colorado continues to celebrate the powerful partnerships that have strengthened it for more than 125 years. Our donors, alumni, friends, faculty, staff, students and community members create the foundation on which our university continues to excel as a preeminent academic and research university.
After several years of declining state funding for public higher education, CU is more determined than ever to preserve its ability to provide quality and accessible education to students. The University of Colorado has an impressive history of resiliency. In 1938, when the university faced relatively similar funding challenges, President George Norlin said, “We must choose between running a first-class university or a third-class university.” He was determined to maintain CU as a first-rate institution, and that ambition lives on today.
Thanks to a gift of $300,000 from Lisbeth and Anthony Moores, and their children, Melissa Moores, Mack Collins, and Maggie Collins, near the center of a 200 acre property owned by the University of Colorado at Boulder, above Nederland and 25 miles northwest of Boulder, stands a new building that will provide a year round venue for students, faculty, and visiting scholars. Located at 9,500 feet elevation, the Moores-Collins Family Lodge is part of the Mountain Research Station which is managed by the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR). The new two story, 3,200-square-foot lodge includes meeting facilities for up to 70 people, a full kitchen, three bathrooms and winterized sleeping areas for up to 32. |
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CU’s multi-disciplinary, multi-campus approach to teaching, research and service, along with the generous support of its donors, is unleashing extraordinary partnerships that are cultivating a culture of excellence. We have attracted renowned researchers to our faculty, a number of our programs are ranked among the best in the country and our students are receiving essential scholarships. With the University’s recent designation by the state as an enterprise, we can now prioritize facility construction and enhancements by being able to bond our tuition and fee revenue.
In 2004, the Banbury Fund of New York provided a $200,000 grant to support Dr. Boris Tabakoff’s laboratory research which focuses on the molecular pharmacology of addictive substances, in particular, alcohol. The program in Addiction Pharmacology is directed by Dr. Tabakoff, Professor and Chairman of Pharmacology in the School of Medicine, at Health Sciences Center and Faculty Fellow, Institute for Behavioral Genetics at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Since 1991, the Banbury Fund and family descendants of its founders, Charles and Marie Robertson, have donated over $2.1 million to Tabakoff’s studies of the neural mechanisms of physical dependence and the potential predisposition of individuals to the development of alcoholism. |
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The inspirational support we have received from our donors and communities continues to fuel the University’s academic and research efforts that keep us among the nation’s top ten research universities. We are investigating a breadth of areas including space, biotechnology, cancer, cognitive disabilities, environmental sciences, women’s health and domestic violence. Private gifts have ensured that these endeavors will have far-reaching and long-term benefits for our society. Generous support from our donors also sustains our cultural amenities and activities, which draw people seeking enrichment. A partnership with the CU Foundation has supported university priorities and allowed remarkable capital development progress.
The University serves as both an anchor and a catalyst for Colorado’s economic activity by leveraging the state funds we receive with research dollars and private gifts. In these incredibly difficult times for funding for public higher education in Colorado, the support of our private donors has never been more important. While we are hopeful that state will restore its funding for public higher education, your continued investment will ensure our legacy of extraordinary achievements at the University of Colorado.
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Elizabeth Hoffman, Ph.D. |