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Excellence in Transplant Surgery

The Igal Kam Endowed Chair will fund groundbreaking research and the best clinical care for transplant patients.

Profiles in Giving—Nien-Yin Chang

When Nien-Yin Chang, professor at the UC Denver College of Engineering, was asked why he entered the field of engineering, his answer came quickly and easily. “You’re always involved with designing solutions—you don’t just talk about it. You produce things, you produce good, to benefit the people, to benefit society.”

Assistive Technology Partners

Assistive Technology Partners harnesses the power of technology to improve the lives of people with disabilities.

Bioscience Research

CU-Boulder gives students a chance to be a part of life-changing bioscience discoveries.

From the Heart, For the Heart

Patients don’t care how much a doctor knows until they know how much a doctor cares. A comforting bedside manner is more important than we realize—until we experience it firsthand.

A Lifetime of Giving Back

During the 12 years that Jeannie Thompson (Zoology ’64) worked in research labs, she witnessed the incredible discoveries that occur when great minds come together, especially across disciplines.

Depression Center

George Wiegers spent too much of his childhood watching depression ravage his mother. Monday, Wiegers made an extraordinary contribution to help ease the suffering from an illness that kills roughly 30,000 Americans a year and cripples millions of others. Wiegers donated $3 million to establish the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine Depression Center.

Lynn Bateman Memorial Fellowship

Marilyn and Warren Bateman established a teaching fellowship in mathematics to honor the memory of Warren's daughter Lynn.

Cancer Prevention

Dr. Pepper Schedin conducts groundbreaking research on breast cancer prevention at the Anschutz Medical Campus.

Cycling to Cure Cancer

Rick Garbe and Al Halverstadt rode their bikes across the country and raised nearly $80,000 for cancer research at the University of Colorado Cancer Center.

Bachelor of Innovation Degree

Everyone’s got an idea. How do you turn that idea into something concrete that will benefit society as a whole? UCCS’s Bachelor of InnovationTM (BI) program prepares students for that challenge.

Stem Cell Research

Under the direction of Dennis Roop, the Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Biology Program at UC Denver’s School of Medicine pursues treatments for Parkinson’s disease, spinal cord injury, diabetes, and cancer, using stem cells derived from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood.

Cox Foundation Helps CU’s Journalism School Create Innovative Program

Every day for 22 years, George Orbanek was responsible for making sure the residents of Western Colorado had the latest news. As publisher of the Grand Junction’s Daily Sentinel, he ran the most comprehensive news organization between Denver and Salt Lake City.

Training Medical Professionals to Help Break the Silence

From a distance, Dawn’s life seemed picture-perfect. She was a nurse married to a well-respected university professor, living in a beautiful home with five children. But the reality was something different.

Creating Readers

If one were to count the number of lives Dr. Barbara Swaby has changed ‘one child at a time’, it would be well into the thousands.

Walter Dear’s Gratitude Blossoms into a Mission

In the six years that Martha Dear battled breast cancer, she developed a special appreciation for Dr. Anthony Elias, associate director of the University of Colorado Cancer Center.

An Intercontinental Bridge

When Zuhair Fayez arrived at the University of Colorado in the late 1960s, he fell in love at first sight. Looking back on the people and places that helped him find his life’s course, “I didn’t choose CU, it chose me” reflects Fayez’s fond feelings about his alma mater.