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News & Press Releases2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 July 2, 2008 Boettcher Foundation, Webb-Waring and CU Partner to Support Medical Research Colorado’s medical research industry will receive a boost of up to $40 million by the creation of a grant program aimed at advancing medical research. The program is the result of an innovative agreement among the Boettcher Foundation, the Webb-Waring Institute for Biomedical Research and the University of Colorado. [ View Article as a PDF ] June 29, 2008 MORE THAN $3.3 MILLION RAISED IN FIRST-EVER AVON WALK FOR BREAST CANCER ROCKY MOUNTAINS The sixth annual Avon Walk for Breast Cancer season continued with the Avon Walk Rocky Mountains this weekend, which raised more than $3.3 million to advance access to care and finding a cure for breast cancer. [ View Article as a PDF ] June 12, 2008 CU Foundation on pace to bring in record green The University of Colorado's foundation is on pace to shatter another record this year -- and behind the scenes, the fundraising arm is running dramatically leaner than it has in the past. [ View Article Online - Daily Camera website ] June 10, 2008 University of Colorado Denver’s School of Pharmacy Breaks Ground on New 165,000 Square-Foot Building on the Anschutz Medical Campus As drug therapies become more complex; as our understanding of disease pathology grows; and as health care evolves; the University of Colorado Denver School of Pharmacy is preparing future pharmacists for a profession that is changing dramatically. [ View Article as a PDF ] June 6, 2008 For the love of rock: CU alumnus sets up scholarship fund The University of Colorado was rocking during the summer of 1978: During a three-month span, the Beach Boys, the Rolling Stones and the Eagles played for students at Folsom Field. [ View Article Online - Daily Camera website ] May 13, 2008 UCD grad creates women's program in Saudi Arabia Zuhair Fayez credits all his success as one of the top architects in Middle East to his education at the University of Colorado Denver. Now, he wants to give the same chance to students, who not too long ago were not allowed to attend school – women. [ View Article Online - Channel 9 News website ] May 8, 2008 New Culture of Health and Wellness Launched at University of Colorado Denver Colorado’s health and wellness movement took a giant step forward today as the University of Colorado Denver received a $15 million gift from The Anschutz Foundation to create a Health and Wellness Center. [ View Article as a PDF ] May 3, 2008 Scholarship can help a dancer’s dreams come true The one-time $1,000 Betty Jean Bruno Dance Scholarship will be awarded to an incoming student at the University of Colorado who is a declared dance major. [ View Article as a PDF ] April 16, 2008 Endowed professorship will honor UCCS professor who has a passion for literacy For 31 years the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs professor has been rescuing the futures of children doing poorly in school because they can't read well. As director of the UCCS Graduate Reading Program and the Graduate Reading Clinic, she teaches graduate students how to teach reading. [ View Article as a PDF ] April 14, 2008 $3 Million Gift Launches Depression Center, Starts National Network 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. [ View Article as a PDF ] March 29, 2008 Two CU Programs Receive $196,500 From The Daniels Fund The Daniels Fund has donated $196,500 to two University of Colorado programs, one to support a K-12 engineering education program at the CU-Boulder campus and one for an addiction research and treatment program at the Anschutz Medical Campus. [ View Article as a PDF ] March 27, 2008 Brown Named to Newton Endowed Chair At CU-Boulder; Former CU President Also Will Forge Leadership Center Former CU President Hank Brown will now play a key role in the future of leadership in the state as the Quigg and Virginia S. Newton Endowed Chair in Leadership at the University of Colorado at Boulder. [ View Article as a PDF ] March 18, 2008 UCD Announces Plans for New Business School Location The Business School intends to consolidate from six locations to a newly acquired building at 1475 Lawrence Street. [ View Article as a PDF ] February 26, 2008 Veteran faculty member selected for Symetrix chair A professor whose work revolutionized cell phones and other electronic devices will be the Symetrix Chair of Device Science and Technology at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. [ View Article as a PDF ] February 22, 2008 Mesa State College And CU-Boulder Announce Mechanical Engineering Partnership Mesa State College and the University of Colorado at Boulder today announced a new partnership that will allow students to earn a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from CU-Boulder by taking classes delivered at Mesa State. [ View Article as a PDF ] February 22, 2008 University of Colorado Names Bruce Benson Its 22nd President The University of Colorado Board of Regents today named Bruce Benson the 22nd president of the university’s three-campus system. [ View Article as a PDF ] February 10, 2008 $10,000 Granted to CU-Boulder’s Child Learning Center Rose Community Foundation recently granted $10,000 in support of the Child Learning Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Funding will support the ongoing operations of the myriad programs at the center. [ View Article as a PDF ] January 24, 2008 Record-Breaking Donor Support for CU Continues The University of Colorado continued its record fund-raising pace with $84.3 million contributed in the six months ending December 31, 2007, eclipsing the $59.2 million over the same period last year. Donors contributed $133.5 million to CU last fiscal year, the most in the university’s 131-year history. [ View Article as a PDF ] January 8, 2008 Gift Establishes Endowed Chair of Surgery at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine At an afternoon ceremony today, the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine announced a new donor gift to create an endowed chair of surgery. 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