Gifts

NSF awards CU-Boulder $5.9 million grant for alpine ecosystem research

The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Colorado Boulder a six-year, $5.9 million grant to continue intensive studies of long-term ecological changes in Colorado's high mountains, both natural and human-caused, over decades and centuries.

Record number of CU-Boulder students awarded Fulbright grants for 2011-12

Ten University of Colorado Boulder students have received Fulbright grants to pursue teaching, research and graduate studies abroad during the 2011-12 academic year, a record for the university.

CU-Boulder scientist Zhe Chen named 2011 Boettcher Investigator

DENVER – Three University of Colorado researchers have been named to the 2011 class of Boettcher Investigators in the Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Program. This is the second year for the program, which supports early career scientists in their work toward making discoveries that improve human health.

CU's 2011 Boettcher Investigators are:

Zhe Chen, Ph.D., assistant research professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at the University of Colorado Boulder, whose research focuses on axon guidance during neural development

$2 million endowed chair in Jewish history bolsters fast-growing CU-Boulder program

To honor a father who stoked their love of history and respect for civil rights, Boulder sisters and University of Colorado Boulder alumnae Midge Korczak and Leslie Singer Lomas have donated $2 million to endow the Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History at CU-Boulder.

University of Colorado announces $1.5 billion fundraising campaign

University of Colorado President Bruce Benson today announced Creating Futures, a $1.5 billion comprehensive fundraising campaign, the most ambitious in university history, which will benefit people, programs and places across CU's four campuses.

CU-Boulder student Shane Baldauf wins national Udall Scholarship

Shane Baldauf, a sophomore in architecture and planning at the University of Colorado Boulder who is dedicated to ‘green' and affordable housing, has been awarded a prestigious Udall Scholarship.

CU announces $3.5 million in gifts from ConocoPhillips to biotech building

Houston-based energy firm ConocoPhillips has made a major gift toward the University of Colorado Boulder's Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building to bring together world-class scientists and engineers working toward solutions in fields such as medicine and energy.

Louisville Company Supports CU Aerospace Students and Faculty in Dream Chaser Development

A Colorado-based aerospace company, Sierra Nevada Space Systems of Louisville, is collaborating with students and faculty in the department of aerospace engineering sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder in the development of a new spacecraft called Dream Chaser, which will be used to carry astronauts to space.

$1 Million CU-Boulder Biotechnology Building Gift Honors Late Boulder Entrepreneur

University of Colorado at Boulder alumna Jane Butcher, who with her late husband Charlie Butcher has played a key role in supporting CU-Boulder's rapidly expanding biotechnology research efforts, has pledged $1 million toward the Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building being built on the university's East Campus.

 
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