CU Connections

UCCS program director understands the importance of investing in youth because she’s been on the other side of the fence.

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 [...]

When Richard Johnston returned to the CU School of Medicine (SOM) in 2000 as associate dean for research development, it represented a fulfilling capstone for a career that has included faculty roles at medical schools at Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, and as vice chair of pediatrics in the early 1980s at the SOM.

The University of Colorado Foundation has promoted Matthew Wasserman to the newly established position of vice president of development for the University of Colorado Denver campus based in downtown Denver. As a vice president, Wasserman leads a fundraising effort that has raised more than $13 million to date this fiscal year, and oversees a staff [...]

Marcy Benson has met seven United States presidents and worked for two, but perhaps the best insight she received in more than two decades working in Washington, D.C., came not from a chief executive, but from the head of the Federal Judicial Center.

The Center for Women’s Health Research is pleased to announce it has received funding from The Anschutz Foundation to continue the growth of its Faculty Development and Mentoring Program. Two seed grants will be given to early career and mid-career investigators. These seed grants are critical to allow for the collection of pilot data, which [...]

The University of Colorado Foundation has named Richard W. Lawrence as its new president and chief executive officer following a national search.

A strong knowledge base and commodities workforce is key to our nation’s future and to Colorado’s economy. But no university has offered a comprehensive academic program incorporating industries as diverse as energy, agriculture and mining. To fill this gap, the University of Colorado Denver Business School will launch a Center for Commodities in Spring 2012 [...]

Alexander E. “Sandy” Bracken, former University of Colorado president, has been appointed to the Quigg and Virginia S. Newton Endowed Chair in Leadership at the University of Colorado Boulder. Bracken, who served as the 19th president of the University of Colorado in 2000, succeeds former CU President Hank Brown as the Newton Chair. Brown held [...]

The university’s brand isn’t a logo or a slogan. It’s the feelings and perceptions our constituents have about the University of Colorado as part of their recognition of and interaction with us.