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After 20 years as dean of the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music, Daniel P. Sher will step away from the post in June — but he isn’t going quietly. First, student musicians at the college will dedicate their performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at Boettcher Concert Hall in Denver on Wednesday to the [...]

The groundbreaking CU Teach program at the University of Colorado Boulder was awarded $878,115 this month by the National Math and Science Initiative (NMSI)—matching an equal amount that private donors had contributed to the program during a recent 16-month period. The private gifts totaling $878,115 for the program include major commitments by Richard McCray, a [...]

A new, five-story building with 100 faculty and staff offices is quickly taking shape. Gary Reynolds, executive director, Facilities Services, recently shared architectural renderings of the next UCCS construction project as well as plans for its construction. “This is a critical project for a growing campus and will provide needed academic offices in 2014 and [...]

Budget and finance officials painted a sobering picture of the funding challenges facing the University of Colorado and higher education in the state during a lunch-and-learn program at the Anschutz Medical Campus. About 60 people attended the April 10 program, presented by CU Advocates, in the Trivisible Room. Featured speakers were Jeff Parker, vice chancellor [...]

Using photos, diagrams and charts, a CU Denver professor demystified the world of math and showed how mathematical models can help political leaders keep the peace across the globe. Loren Cobb, Ph.D., research associate professor in mathematical and statistical sciences and director of the CU Denver Statistical Consulting Service, was one of the featured speakers [...]

Sex apparently is like income: People are generally happy when they keep pace with the Joneses and they’re even happier if they get a bit more. That’s one finding of Tim Wadsworth, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder, who recently published the results of a study of how sexual frequency [...]

Kee Warner was not thinking about his health when senior instructor K.C. Craig’s email to the faculty list appeared on his computer screen late on a December Friday afternoon. But Craig’s offer of a free personal trainer as part of her spring semester course, Exercise Testing and Prescription HSCI 4950, made Warner pause. “K.C.’s email reminded me of [...]

For the first time in six years, the cost to park at UCCS will increase. Effective July 1, there will be increases in all permit types used by faculty, staff and students as well as visitors. For a faculty or staff member who buys an annual HUB permit, the cost to park will be $50 [...]

The world is ever changing; having the ability to communicate in a diverse world is a key to success in many aspects of life. This was a key message from Brenda J. Allen, Ph.D., associate vice chancellor for Diversity and Inclusion, during last week’s brown bag lunch and learn hosted by Staff Council. The session was presented [...]

In appreciation of the outstanding treatment she received from University of Colorado ophthalmologists, Sue Anschutz-Rodgers has donated $2 million that, combined with other commitments, establishes the Sue Anschutz-Rodgers Endowed Chair in Retinal Diseases. This endowment fund, which will support CU School of Medicine research in retinal diseases, represents a strong vote of confidence as CU [...]

Clouds over the central Greenland Ice Sheet last July were “just right” for driving surface temperatures there above the melting point, according to a new study by scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the universities of Wisconsin, Idaho and Colorado. The study, published recently in Nature, found that thin, low-lying clouds [...]

They’re popping up in front yards, at community events and in front of city halls. They’re spinning statewide as the country recognizes Child Abuse Prevention (CAP) Month throughout April. They’re pinwheels, the centerpiece of the Pinwheels for Prevention campaign. The pinwheel represents Colorado’s efforts to change the way our state thinks about prevention, focusing on [...]

A better understanding of the core drivers that help great leaders innovate — and avoid failure — is key to advancing global enterprise. The Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder is now better equipped to advance this understanding, thanks to a new $2.25 million gift from the Thomas Stix Guggenheim family [...]

The confidence of Colorado business leaders has surged going into the second quarter of 2013, according to the most recent Leeds Business Confidence Index, or LBCI, released Tuesday by the University of Colorado Boulder’s Leeds School of Business. With waning uncertainty giving way to a stabilizing economy, the second quarter LBCI posted a reading of [...]

The University of Colorado Technology Transfer Office (TTO) on Monday presented awards to university researchers and companies who represent best practices in commercialization of university technologies. The TTO presented the Boulder campus awards – to four researchers and one startup company – during its annual Entrepreneurship Under the Microscope event, a celebration of campus entrepreneurship [...]

Denver’s controversial “camping ban” has left the homeless no place to sleep outdoors safely and legally at night, forcing them into hidden spots or to seek indoor options that don’t exist, according to a report written by a University of Colorado Denver political science professor. In collaboration with the Denver Homeless Out Loud (DHOL) community [...]

Although guns are used in over half of all American suicides, a new study shows that many emergency room doctors and nurses do not routinely ask suicidal patients about their access to firearms. “In our study, less than half of emergency room medical providers believe most or all suicides are preventable and many rarely ask [...]

A leader in the fight to close wage gaps between women and men will be the featured speaker at a Monday event on campus. Lilly Ledbetter of Jacksonville, Ala., will speak about her fight for equal pay and fair treatment by her employer and the efforts that led to the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. [...]

Connecting with students early in their academic careers will be a primary goal of Chris Dowen, who started last week as the university’s first director of K-12 outreach. Dowen comes to the University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus from the University of Denver’s Morgridge College of Education, where he was assistant dean of [...]

University of Colorado Cancer Center has been added to an elite group of cancer centers that establish and deliver the gold standard in cancer clinical care.  CU Cancer Center has been elected as a member institution by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN), an alliance of the world’s leading cancer centers dedicated to improving the quality, [...]

Colorado communities have a new tool to help identify programs aimed at developing healthy children, free from problems such as bullying, violence, obesity and depression. The Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at CU-Boulder, in partnership with the Annie E. Casey Foundation, launched a new interactive website called Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development. [...]

The master’s degree program in counseling and human services at UCCS recently received a 2012 Professional Identity Award from the National Board for Certified Counselors Inc. NBCC, based in Greensboro, N.C., is the premier counseling certification organization in the United States and certifies more than 52,000 National Certified Counselors. Each year, NBCC presents the Professional [...]

Occasionally forgetting things is a normal part of aging, according to UCCS experts. But what’s normal – and what might be a more serious psychological problem – is often difficult to comprehend without assistance. That’s where the CU Aging Center and its memory clinic can help. On a sliding fee scale that ranges from $5 [...]

The strength of magnetic fields inside biological incubators can vary by orders of magnitude from one incubator to the next as well as from one location to another inside the same incubator, a finding with direct implications for some biologists, according to a new study by a recent University of Colorado Boulder graduate, who also [...]

More than 1,000 Denver Public Schools students received a warm University of Colorado Denver welcome on Friday as the annual Higher Education Expo at Auraria gave them an up-close look at what the university has to offer. Raul Cardenas, Ph.D., associate vice chancellor for student affairs, delivered a welcoming address to the mostly ninth-graders in [...]

The students were easy to see. Surrounded by well-wishers, they milled around the Denver Hyatt Regency ballroom, complexions a little pale, eyes a little glazed, waiting for the Match Day festivities to begin. They ignored the pastries and fruit and fiddled with the gold-colored gift bags. But there was no denying the stars of the [...]

An advanced polymer technology developed at the University of Colorado Boulder recently was licensed to 3M, a diversified technology company based in St. Paul, Minn. The licensed technology, developed by a team led by CU-Boulder Distinguished Professor Christopher Bowman, enables formation of very low-shrinkage composites, improving performance of many materials currently used in dental fillings [...]

Stepping is one of the oldest traditions in the world and CU Denver Live! along with The CU Denver Office of Student Life hosted an event at the end of February in the King Center Recital Hall to bring this tradition to the University of Colorado Denver campus. Step Afrika! is the first professional company [...]

Sleeping just five hours a night over a workweek and having unlimited access to food caused participants in a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder to gain nearly 2 pounds of weight. The study, performed in collaboration with the CU Anschutz Medical Campus, suggests that sufficient sleep could help battle the obesity [...]

A 16-member steering committee was recently named to begin the task of commemorating the university’s past and helping launch it toward the future. The 50th Anniversary Committee recently met and was charged by Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak to begin thinking now about a celebration that will last throughout the calendar year 2015. “It may seem odd [...]