CU Leads: Catch up on stories of impact from over the summer

Lazy days of summer? Not at CU. In case you missed them, these stories from across our campuses show that the university’s leadership and impact never take a vacation.

For 150 years, the University of Colorado has advanced education, innovation and the well-being of people, organizations and communities. With deep roots in Colorado, CU’s impact is far-reaching, extending beyond state borders to shape lives and drive progress across the nation and around the world. The following stories showcase this impact in action, illustrating how CU is helping to build a stronger future for all.

• CU Boulder Among World’s Top Institutions for Climate Science Research
  CU Boulder was named one of the world’s leading institutions for climate science, ranking eighth globally by Carbon Brief.
   
• CU Denver Students Shaping the Future of Airport Leadership
  Airports are complex, shaped by layers of regulation, funding, operations and long-term planning in addition to being regional economic drivers. As that complexity grows, so does the need for people who can move between those worlds.
   
• CU Anschutz Researcher Part of Global Effort to Rename Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
  A CU Anschutz expert took part in the global effort to modernize the condition’s name and definition to better recognize that the disease is not primarily gynecological.
   
• UCCS Researchers Help Advance Understanding of Quantum Science
  Researchers at UCCS have helped achieve an important experimental breakthrough that advances the understanding of collective quantum states and may support future information-processing and sensing technologies.