Your Impact: Programs & Initiatives

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.

May 24, 2021

Jennifer Boylan, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences, and Kevin Masters, PhD, professor of psychology, received a $230,000 grant from the John Templeton Foundation to explore our understanding of religion, spirituality, and health.

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.

Dec 1, 2020

New strategic initiative on research and innovation in medical technologies will bring innovators in engineering and computer science together with those in medicine and healthcare to dramatically elevate discovery, translation, and workforce development.

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.

Jul 21, 2020

Like many major cities and urban areas in the U.S., Denver has seen an increase in panhandling. Francisco Conejo, PhD, Senior Marketing Instructor/Researcher at the Business School, explored the fundamental causes behind the emergence of panhandling in Denver.