Your Impact: Programs & Initiatives

Feb 3, 2022

The University of Colorado Denver has received a generous gift of $500,000 from donors in the Jain community to establish the “Bhagwan Suparshvanatha Endowed Professorship Fund in Jain Studies” to create and support a faculty professorship focused on the teaching and study of the Jain religion in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Jul 19, 2021

The program, which provides architecture students with hands-on construction experience and is funded in part through philanthropic support, designed and constructed a pedestrian bridge for a small town east of Fort Collins.

Jun 24, 2021

A team of four Business School graduate students took third place at the ninth annual Collegiate Program Case Competition, hosted by the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative—a generous supporter of ethics education at CU Denver’s Business School, School of Public Affairs, and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Jun 3, 2021

As one of six grantees of the Early Educator Investment Collaborative, the School of Education and Human Development will lead a statewide effort to make college degrees more accessible to early childhood teachers, conduct research in early educator workforce preparation, and institute policy reforms to drive systemic change.

Mar 29, 2021

Sponsored by the Center for International Business Education and Research and the Boothby International Executive Lecture, the presentation focused on Sachs’ latest book, The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions.

Feb 2, 2021

A grant from Early Milestones Colorado funded by the Buell Foundation and Gary Community Investments, makes tuition free for six credits a semester for each enrollee.

Nov 6, 2020

CU Denver has received a significant gift from Trimble to establish a state-of-the-art Technology Lab for the College of Engineering, Design and Computing. The gift will also support the departments or programs in Construction Engineering and Construction Management, Geography & Environmental Sciences, Physics, and Urban and Regional Planning.

Sep 8, 2020

Students and faculty in the ColoradoBuildingWorkshop program constructed two badge-access bike pavilions on the Auraria Campus. Come spring semester 2021, the structures will altogether protect the bikes of roughly 100 students, faculty, and staff.

Apr 3, 2020

Over six years, ASPIRE to TEACH has licensed more than 1,000 teachers across 49 counties in Colorado through responsive partnerships with program participants, schools, districts, charter networks, and educational organizations.

Dec 9, 2019

Thanks to a five-year, $1.25 million grant from the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Collegiate Program, the CU Denver Business School has been preparing its students for ethical success through curriculum, events, and community partnerships.