Sustainability

New University of Colorado economic impact study: CU pumped $5.3 billion into Colorado’s economy in 2011

 

CU System news release

In the most comprehensive research yet conducted on what the University of Colorado means to the state’s economy, analysts show an economic impact of $5.3 billion for Colorado in 2011.

The research, conducted by the Business Research Division of the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder, provides the most comprehensive data yet compiled on the statewide economic impact from the university and the individual effects on Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA) with CU campuses.

CU-Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center to receive governor's 'high-impact research' award for sustainability

A team at the University of Colorado Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center will receive a "high-impact research" award from Gov. John Hickenlooper for sustainability implemented at the NSIDC.

CU-Boulder graduate students use smartphones to evaluate rural drinking water systems in Nicaragua

Fourteen graduate students from the Engineering for Developing Communities program at the University of Colorado Boulder traveled abroad this summer to gain field experience in community development.

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.

CU Law School students to install cookstoves in Peru, combating poverty and global warming

CU Law School students to install cookstoves in Peru, combating poverty and global warming

Graduating CU senior promotes local gardens, sustainable food

With commencement quickly approaching and spring temperatures warming, University of Colorado Boulder senior Bryant Mason is working hard to prepare vegetable gardens and get crops in the ground before he graduates.

CU-Boulder receives Tree Campus USA designation

The University of Colorado Boulder is being recognized by the Arbor Day Foundation as a Tree Campus USA for excellence in tree management, as well as student and community involvement.

CU to hold Food and Environmental Justice Week April 11-17

The University of Colorado Boulder's "Food and Environmental Justice Week" will be held on campus April 11-17.

CU residence hall students conserve energy in a 'Power Smackdown'

University of Colorado Boulder students in Baker and Libby residence halls are competing this month to reduce energy use as part of a "Power Smackdown" led by the CU Environmental Center's energy outreach team.

Warming North Atlantic water tied to heating Arctic, according to new study

The temperatures of North Atlantic Ocean water flowing north into the Arctic Ocean adjacent to Greenland -- the warmest water in at least 2,000 years -- are likely related to the amplification of global warming in the Arctic, says a new international study involving the University of Colorado Boulder.

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