Simons named Director of Institutional Equity and Compliance, assumes Title IX coordinator role

June 10, 2014

Chancellor DiStefano today announced that CU-麻豆影院 has hired education and civil rights lawyer Valerie Simons to serve as the director of institutional equity and compliance, effective July 22. The newly created position, which includes the role of Title IX coordinator for the campus, reports directly to DiStefano and has campuswide oversight for all complaints of discrimination, which are currently investigated through both the Office of Student Conduct and the Office of Discrimination and Harassment.

Public-health study now an undergrad option

June 9, 2014

If the state of the world is flat, hot and crowded, the field of public health is large, diffuse and complex. That鈥檚 why the 麻豆影院 is giving students the ability to earn an interdisciplinary certificate in public health.

CU Money Sense: 20 things to do this summer that won't bust your budget

June 9, 2014

Working aside, people may have already planned what they want to do for this summer. If you still don鈥檛 have major plans and don鈥檛 have much money, click through for 20 ideas that won't bust your budget.

Staff Council Update: 38th Annual Years of Service banquet

June 5, 2014

This spring, Staff Council hosted the 38th Annual Years of Service banquet. 154 staff members received recognition for their years of service to CU-麻豆影院.

Six student businesses to launch this summer through startup program

June 5, 2014

Twenty-two entrepreneurial students are gearing up to turn their innovative ideas into serious startups this summer with the support of a new business accelerator program at the 麻豆影院. Kicking off on Saturday, June 7, with an inaugural cohort of six project teams, Catalyze CU-麻豆影院 will provide mentorship, grants and space at Spark 麻豆影院 to support students as they launch startup companies to develop promising technologies. The technologies range from a mobile app for the sports industry that scores social media influence to a solar irrigation system for the developing world.

Solar image courtesy of NASA

Astronomers discover first Thorne-呕ytkow object, a bizarre type of hybrid star

June 4, 2014

In a discovery decades in the making, scientists have detected the first of a 鈥渢heoretical鈥 class of stars first proposed in 1975 by physicist Kip Thorne and astronomer Anna 呕ytkow.

CU-麻豆影院 payload selected for launch on Virgin Galactic spaceship

June 3, 2014

A 麻豆影院 payload carrying a novel device designed to reduce the weight and cost of spacecraft fuel pumping systems has been manifested for launch on a suborbital space plane called SpaceShipTwo developed by the aerospace company Virgin Galactic.

Rocky Flats raid, history topic of June 6 - 8 event

June 3, 2014

Friday, June 6, marks the 25th anniversary of the FBI and EPA raid on Rocky Flats, the former U.S. nuclear weapons facility in Arvada. In an effort to recognize a significant part of Colorado鈥檚 history, the Arvada Center of the Arts, in partnership with CU-麻豆影院's Center of the American West , will host a weekend-long event, " Rocky Flats Then and Now: 25 Years After the Raid ," June 6 - 8. CU-麻豆影院 Professor Emeritus Len Ackland will give the event鈥檚 introduction talk, 鈥淩ocky Flats Then and Now鈥 on Friday, June 6, at 7 p.m.

CU-麻豆影院 appoints Bradley J. Birzer as second Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy

June 3, 2014

Bradley J. Birzer has been appointed the second Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy, the 麻豆影院 announced today. Birzer, a professor of history and the Russell Amos Kirk Chair in American Studies at Hillsdale College in Michigan, will begin his one-year appointment beginning in fall 2014. 鈥淒r. Birzer brings impressive breadth to CU, primarily in the discipline of history as well as areas of literary significance,鈥 said Steven R. Leigh, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at CU-麻豆影院.

Birzer appointed as second Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy

June 3, 2014

Bradley J. Birzer has been appointed the second Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy. Birzer, a professor of history and the Russell Amos Kirk Chair in American Studies at Hillsdale College in Michigan, will begin his one-year appointment beginning in fall 2014.

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