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If America can end its addiction to debt, believe again in shared sacrifice and swap out myth for math, it just might reverse the nation’s financial free fall. Retired U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson brought that sobering message and his renowned tart humor to the 2013 Celebration of Success dinner on May 1. The Celebration of [...]

Faculty, staff, students and alumni pitched in more than 2,000 hours of community service during this year’s CU in the Community campaign. While the featured partner was Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver, university representatives also volunteered for 16 other organizations across the Denver metropolitan area. The campaign ran from Nov. 5, 2012, to Feb. [...]

A full breadth of research — from small-scale agriculture to technology in middle schools to the effects of bone loss — was showcased Friday at the 16th annual Research and Creative Activities Symposium. The RaCAS alternates between the CU Denver campus and the Anschutz Medical Campus, and this year was the Denver Campus’s turn as host. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A panel with deep roots in the University of Colorado Denver recently told the wild and woolly story of the university’s “Road to Independence and Beyond” during an event celebrating the institution’s 40th anniversary. Panelists and topics included: Jarett Zuboy, master’s student in history and author of a to-be-published book on CU Denver’s history: The [...]

A series of studies by two University of Colorado Denver Business School professors indicate a large level of surplus deferred compensation and near-retirement salary growth among both K-12 and university employees. Overall, the three studies point to potential conflicts between agents managing employee compensation and taxpayers providing the benefits. At the very minimum, the studies [...]

Three-dimensional printing technology that President Obama touted in his recent State of the Union speech is already being used in a University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus laboratory. Now, thanks to a $600,000 capital equipment grant from the Veterans Administration, the CU Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus/VA Biomechatronics Development Laboratory is home to [...]

Update: The Anschutz Med Campus mobile app has launched and is now available now through Google and iTunes. Rolling out soon to a mobile device near you: a user-friendly and flexible app that features information about the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. The official Anschutz Medical Campus app, which is free, is being fine-tuned [...]

Officials cut the ribbon on the 17th Place-Interstate 225 interchange Monday morning, ushering in an important and long-anticipated access point to the Anschutz Medical Campus. The bridge is expected to open for public use by March 1. About 40 people attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the interchange, which will offer full access of I-225 via East 17th Place, just north of Colfax Avenue. Vice President for Health [...]

Andres Lema-Hincapie’s work in the Department of Modern Languages is about opening doors — to language, to culture, to art. So it’s not surprising that he turned his attention to the custodial staff in the Plaza Building where he teaches. He noticed that the janitors are part of the university, yet are also far apart [...]

Stories of life-changing university research, and the people who make it possible, were celebrated at the Sixth Annual Donor Recognition Dinner. The event drew a full house to the Seawell Ballroom in the Denver Performing Arts Complex on Feb. 7. Leaders of the University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus and the University of [...]

University and city leaders will plunge shovels into earth today, marking the start of construction on a signature building in CU Denver’s 40-year history downtown. Academic Building 1, the first structure on the Auraria Campus owned and operated by CU Denver, has been a long time coming and today’s event will befit the historical significance. [...]

A dozen members of the University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus leadership team donned hard hats and wielded hammers, paint brushes and tape measures to help build a Habitat for Humanity home Jan. 17 in northeast Denver. The afternoon of construction work was part of the CU in the Community campaign, which encourages [...]

Linda Theus-Lee, a program coordinator in the Business School, surveyed the fresh-baked items on display at the just-opened Udi’s Bread Cafe and Juice Bar before deciding on a sausage-and-cheese breakfast burrito. “Sometimes we don’t come out of our offices to go anywhere, so it’s nice to have something down here to kind of indulge ourselves,” [...]

About 150 people attended the panel discussion on TBD Colorado, making it the best-attended event in the two-year history of the Buechner Breakfast First Friday series.

A diverse group of career services professionals from about 40 graduate schools in public affairs, policy and administration convened last week at the University of Colorado Denver for a two-day conference. The School of Public Affairs hosted the 2012 Career Professionals Conference of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration. The annual [...]

The mysteries of the interplay between music and the brain were explored recently in an entertaining program at the new Fulginiti Pavilion for Bioethics and Humanities on the Anschutz Medical Campus. The Nov. 14 multimedia program was the first in a new series on the brain presented by the newly established Center for NeuroScience. Featured [...]

Just as the design-build system relies on collaboration between architects and builders, the university’s student chapter of the Design Build Institute of America hinges on collaborations between students and professionals. The new club within the College of Architecture and Planning has already worked with respected local firms such as Sprocket, RNL, Studio Completiva and Fransen [...]

In the United States, during recent decades, observers have noted that the student population in K-12 public schools has become more and more ethnically diverse. Over the same time, public school teachers, proportionally are not as diverse. CU Denver’s School of Education and Human Development (SEHD) program Pathways2Teaching is working to increase the number of [...]

The Anschutz Medical Campus has a new website that’s as inviting, vibrant and innovative as the campus it serves. The site is designed primarily to reach our external audience — to excite and inform people about CU Anschutz — and to serve the informational needs of our faculty, staff and students. The colorful and useful [...]

In just its first year, the Center for Research in Implementation Science and Prevention (CRISP)has become known for its multidisciplinary research that links primary care, public health and community prevention efforts. The center also broadly disseminates research findings and provides education and training in implementation science. Following is a Q&A with CRISP Director Allison Kempe, [...]

The Anschutz Medical Campus already is well-versed in adaptability, and as big changes loom on the federal health care and budget landscapes, the campus is poised to meet the challenges with its trademarks of innovation and flexibility. Lilly Marks, vice president for health affairs at the University of Colorado and vice chancellor of the Anschutz Medical Campus, [...]

Putting student success at the core of the university’s mission while taking creative approaches to the funding puzzle were central themes of Chancellor Don Elliman’s State of the University address on Monday. He spoke at the King Center and again in the Terrace Room. Lilly Marks, vice president of health affairs at the University of [...]

Just hours before the vice presidential candidates sparred in a lively debate on Oct. 11, barely touching on energy policy, an equally spirited discussion struck on that very topic, courtesy of the third annual Energy Moving Forward forum. A panel exchanged partisan blows in “The Future We Want: Student Perspectives on Energy Policy and its [...]

The University of Colorado Denver 8th Annual Undergraduate Experiences Symposium took an internal focus this year, asking faculty and administrators to “Reflect, Plan and Act on Student Learning and Success.” About 120 members of the university community convened Friday at the Curtis Hotel for wide-ranging and big-picture discussions about improving undergraduate education. After introductory remarks [...]

More than 100 faculty members at the University of Colorado Denver and Anschutz Medical Campus were honored for reaching the milestone of tenure and/or promotion at a recent luncheon. To see the full list of honorees, visit the Faculty Affairs and Undergraduate Enrichment website and click on the “Tenure & Promotion Honorees 11-12″ link at [...]