Funding

CU Boulder Today—CU Boulder has been ranked among the nation’s top public and private universities in Time Magazine’s Best Colleges for Future Leaders, less than five years after launching the Center for Leadership on campus. Ranked No. 64 in the analysis, which examined the alma maters of 2,000 of the most influential leaders in the U.S. from business, government, academia and culture, CU Boulder was the only Colorado school included on the list. The analysis weighted the relative number of leaders by the size of school.

Leeds School of Business—The New Venture Launch class offers students practical experience in starting businesses, including financial support and expert advice. The course helps students develop a wide range of business skills and prepares them for the New Venture Challenge, with past participants achieving significant success.

Daily Camera—Gov. Jared Polis announced Colorado achieved a federal designation as a technology and innovation hub for the quantum industry. Massimo Ruzzene, CU Boulder's vice chancellor for research and innovation, said CU Boulder's role in quantum is to make new research discoveries and educate the next generation of quantum physicists and engineers.

CU Boulder Today—From using quantum technology to spot and plug methane leaks to creating sustainable living building materials, researchers are racing to find solutions to slow the rate of climate change and potentially reverse its course.

CU Boulder Today—The world must slash greenhouse gas emissions to nearly zero by 2050. To reach this goal, technological innovations that can help reduce emissions from the source or absorb emitted warming gasses are crucial. Here's a look at four innovations CU Boulder researchers are working on today.

Daily Camera—In research labs across campus and spinoff companies across Colorado, our faculty—and staff and students who support them—are making discoveries that benefit your health, happiness and economic vitality.

The Innovation & Entrepreneurship (I&E) Program Manager at CU Boulder will play a pivotal role in advancing our dedication to encouraging innovation and an entrepreneurial spirit among students. The Program Manager will lead all aspects of grant procurement, event logistics, data and metrics collection, and program management, contributing to the growth and impact of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative.

Boulder Daily Camera—A team of five graduate students from CU Boulder won $10,000 for their proposed solution to repurpose a decommissioned Denver power plant with clean energy. The competition, called the AES Innovation Challenge, tasks university students with developing a novel solution to a problem in the energy industry.

Venture Partners at CU Boulder—Sixteen teams of University of Colorado faculty, researchers and graduate student innovators competed for a combined $1.5 million in startup funding grants in this year’s Lab Venture Challenge (LVC). Judges from CU Boulder’s entrepreneurial network heard Shark-Tank-style pitches across two nights, one for innovations in biosciences and another for physical sciences and engineering.

Innosphere Ventures—Innosphere Ventures, in partnership with bioscience trade associations and universities, including the University of Colorado, across a six-state region, has been awarded a Build to Scale Venture Challenge grant from the Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (OIE), part of the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA).