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Engineers Building a Better World

CU-Boulder civil engineering professor and Engineers Without Borders-USA founder Bernard Amadei began channeling his energy toward sustainable development after visiting a poor rural village in Belize. “I noticed a lot of young girls who were carrying water—that was their job—from the river to the village, back and forth,” Amadei says. “As a result, they could not go to school. It broke my heart. And I decided I was going to do something about it.”

Innovative New Insurance Program Launched at UC Denver

The Business School at the University of Colorado Denver enjoys a distinct advantage familiar in real estate: location, location, location. Situated in Denver’s vibrant downtown business district, the school boasts local business partnerships that benefit students and businesses alike. With the renovation of the school’s new building at 1475 Lawrence Street, these collaborations will continue to grow.

One Breast Cancer Survivor Fights Back

As so many of us know, cancer can strike like a cyclone—disrupting long-laid plans, fracturing families, and cutting short more than 500,000 American lives each year.

Solving Unsolved Problems through Bioscience Research

“My passion is to advance bioscience research that can help solve some of the significant, unsolved problems in human health,” says Jim Linfield, who with his wife, Patience, gave $250,000 to support CU-Boulder’s Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building, slated for 2011 completion. “That’s why I give to CU.”

Remembering What’s Important: Alzheimer’s Research Advanced by Estate Gift

The toothless smile of your granddaughter. The strawberry milkshakes at that diner where you met your life partner. These are the memories life is made of—the memories Alzheimer’s disease can obscure, or even erase.

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. Make a gift to support CU Denver's Department of Mathematics.

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.

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.

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