CU Connections

The CU Denver Business School launched its new partnership with 9News Monday morning. Anchor/reporter Gregg Moss will broadcast live from the J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities every Monday morning for the next year in news segments called “Your Money Monday.” The newscasts give the Business School a chance to showcase faculty expertise and programs while [...]

The clinical, educational and research work being conducted at the Anschutz Medical Campus is “clearly putting this area on the map,” Vice Admiral Matthew Nathan, surgeon general of the U.S. Navy, said during a campus tour April 30. Nathan visited as part of the Navy’s 50-50 program, which is sending 50 of the Navy’s top [...]

The University of Colorado Boulder will hold its spring graduation ceremony at 8:30 a.m. Friday at Folsom Field. The ceremony will honor candidates for 6,237 degrees, including 4,830 bachelor’s degrees, 994 master’s degrees, 162 law degrees and 251 doctoral degrees for spring and summer. The number of degree applications is the largest in the school’s [...]

The late Ron Wisner’s words of encouragement never left Branden Williams, counselor, Office of Financial Aid, and a candidate for a master’s of arts in leadership. “Dr. Wisner introduced me to the student affairs in higher education program,” Williams recalled recently. “When I told him I wanted to work for UCCS someday – an idea [...]

Pyramid Plus: The Colorado Center for Social Emotional Competence and Inclusion at the University of Colorado Denver is pleased to announce that it will expand its statewide reach, thanks to a new $811,810 grant from The Colorado Health Foundation. The foundation has provided funding to increase the number of children served as well as support [...]

Colorful new window signage with CU Denver logos, students’ faces and provocative questions is featured on the Denver Campus. The Think Tank advertising campaign continues its roll-out with signs replacing previous University of Colorado Denver signage at the street level of the Lawrence Street Center and the CU Denver Building. “The locations were selected for [...]

In an effort to reduce late afternoon congestion and ease parking problems, evening classes at UCCS will start 15 minutes later this fall. Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak recently implemented a concept developed by the Alternative Class Schedule Task Force to better utilize campus facilities and ease campus parking congestion. Among the ideas studied by the group [...]

University of Colorado Boulder Provost Russell L. Moore on Tuesday named Steven Leigh as dean of CU-Boulder’s College of Arts and Sciences. Leigh currently serves as an associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The appointment is effective July 1. “In Steven Leigh’s years at [...]

From projects that peer into the brain and the heavens to machines that race on the desert floor and transform recyclables into products, student research took center stage Friday at the Anschutz Medical Campus. The 15th Annual Research and Creative Activities Symposium (RaCAS) featured 110 student research projects across disciplines at the University of Colorado [...]

About 300 participants turned out for the ninth annual Relay for Life event at UCCS April 13 to recognize cancer survivors and raise money for the American Cancer Society. Activity continued through the night with members of student clubs and other organizations running and walking the pavement adjacent to the west lawn, where supporters provided [...]