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UCCS scholars recognized at luncheon

I had the honor of hosting the KPWE Unstoppable Women's Luncheon at UCCS Tuesday, May 15. It's to celebrate and raise funds for the Karen Possehl Women's Endowment. This year, six scholarship...

KOAA

Veterans mental-health clinic opens Monday as part of national-local partnership

The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus is partnering with a national nonprofit organization to open a clinic Monday that will support the behavioral-health needs of military veterans...

Denver Business Journal

Meet the man who manages to pronounce every CU Denver grad’s name

But this task isn’t a big deal for Dr. Devin Jenkins. He’s a linguist, and he reads the names of those proud grads cold every year.

9 News

Nearly 280 marijuana stores in Colorado suggested cannabis for pregnancy-related nausea, a new study shows. Health officials urge the opposite.

A study by doctors at Denver Health and the University of Colorado School of Medicine reports that, when asked for advice on mixing pot and pregnancy, employees at an overwhelming majority of...

The Denver Post

I love my job as a teacher

Dr. Margarita Bianco tells Education Week why she loves being a teacher in answer to the question, “if you had to do it all over again, would you still become a teacher?” Bianco is an associate...

EducationWeek Teacher

Biomedical startup acquired by global medical technology firm

A medical device company founded by two University of Colorado Denver and CU Anschutz Medical Campus professors was recently acquired by Stryker, one of the world's leading medical technology...

Medical Health News

UCHealth identified by IBM Watson as one of nation's top health systems

An IBM Watson Health study has identified UCHealth as one of the five top-performing large health systems in the U.S., based on a variety of metrics. This is the first time that the annual study...

Denver Business Journal

GUEST COLUMN: Growth, impact moving UCCS into the future

Completing my first year as chancellor, I would like to share some reflections on our progress, as well as plans for the exciting future at UCCS. In the past decade, the campus experienced...

The Gazette

Boulder scientists show personal care products' atmospheric impact

People applying deodorant to start their day could be contributing a comparable level of chemicals to the atmosphere as they do when getting in their cars and driving to work. That's the...

Daily Camera

CU study: Marijuana use during pregnancy associated with low birth weight

Babies born to mothers who used marijuana during pregnancy are much more likely to be born underweight, according to new research from the University of Colorado. The study, led by scientists at...

7 News

Alan Cass, the 'Voice of the Buffs' and force behind CU's Glenn Miller Archive, dies at 77

Alan Cass, a longtime Boulder resident and CU fixture, died Wednesday at the age of 77. Cass was the public address announcer for CU men's basketball games starting in 1965 and CU football games...

Daily Camera

Flush with NFL, state grant funding, CU-Denver startup set to test new helmet padding material

The new company, Impressio Inc, was officially awarded the funding from the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade on Thursday. It is the second major grant the company...

The Denver Post

CU partnerships serve many communities on Western Slope

As regent, I've been impressed by all CU does, but also surprised that many people around the state are unaware of its activities. Last year, faculty attracted more than $1 billion in research...

The Grand Junction Sentinel

Storytellers: The Grit of Bruce Benson

What makes a man like Bruce Benson come to work each day as President of the University of Colorado system? It's not the work that's been done. It's the work still left unfinished.

9 News

Panelists tackle living life in social media age at CU's Conference on World Affairs

Pop culture author Bonnie Burton remembers the internet's infancy and the challenges of moderating heated comments on a message board — the precursor to social media — on "Star Wars." Now, Burton...

Daily Camera

CU students help battle drug abuse and mental illnesses

They are topics that can be difficult to discuss: Mental illness and drug abuse. But the sometimes taboo topics were front and center during a discussion at the University of Colorado. The problem...

Fox 31

State economy expected to expand in Q2, says CU report

That's according to the latest Leeds Business Confidence Index, a survey of 240 panelists from across the state by the University of Colorado Boulder's Leeds School of Business, released today.

Denver Business Journal

$10.7M CU project calls for 3 new bridges across Boulder Creek

CU spokesman Scott Pribble said the three bridges will go, respectively, at 19th Street, 23rd Street and on the East Campus, which sits between 30th Street and Foothills Parkway south of Arapahoe...

Daily Camera

Impressio and CU Denver just got a grant from the NFL to develop a new type of helmet

Working to combat CTE in the NFL is a big deal - and these locals have been given some money to test an innovative new helmet padding material. Chris Yackaki Yakacki, a mechanical engineering...

9News

GUEST COLUMN: UCCS event teaches students how to think critically

Sadly this important debate has been distorted by the media and pundits who demagogue the issue. It's rare to hear a sober-minded discussion that highlights the merits of each side's position....

The Gazette

National Institutes of Health funds Colorado study of intermittent fasting

Dr. Victoria Catenacci, Associate Professor in the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Diabetes at UCHealth, will lead the study. “We felt that there was a real gap in the scientific...

9 News

CU Boulder study probes ethics of researchers' use of Twitter

A new study out of the University of Colorado has found that the majority of Twitter users don't know that researchers freely collect and analyze their tweets — even those that have been deleted...

Daily Camera

Medical Marijuana for Older Adults

"As people get older, the way their body processes medication, including marijuana, is different than it was in their 20s," says Laura Borgelt, an associate dean and professor at the University of...

U.S. News and World Report

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