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"The arts give joy and meaning to life, and I’m so pleased that Roe Green has chosen to support CU Boulder and the surrounding community in such a creative and meaningful way,” said CU Boulder Chancellor Phil DiStefano.
CU Boulder grad Patricia Sheffels establishes keynote-speaker program to address environmental issues.
Dexter and Gina Williams, friends of the university and fans of art, establish fund to pay students to work in the CU Art Museum.
New endowed fund will support physics fellowships in honor of the late Deborah Jin.
It was just one personal letter, but it reaffirmed, recognized and acclaimed the lifelong work of a professor. “No one outside of my immediate family positively influenced my life more than Professor Smith,” a former student wrote to the professor’s family. “He counseled me at critical times and even rescued me once when I had lost my life’s direction.”
Following four decades of service in a host of roles and several gifts to CU, Bob and Nancy Sievers have made a major capstone contribution to advance the development of the new laboratory and office complex at Colorado Avenue and Foothills Parkway in Boulder, dedicated to sustainability, energy and environmental research.
As a liberal undergraduate, Todd D. McIntyre planned to study psychology and then attend law school. He didn’t anticipate becoming so fascinated with science, the brain in particular, that he’d completely change his academic trajectory and then launch a successful career in the pharmaceutical industry, where developing treatments for brain pathologies has been his primary focus. As a liberal undergraduate, McIntyre planned to study psychology and then attend law school. He also didn’t anticipate becoming more conservative.
Most people who see something curious during world travels might briefly muse about it, perhaps weave it into a cocktail-party anecdote, but otherwise let it go. But most people are not like Ruth Wright or her husband, Ken. In 1974, she wondered about water stains on rocks at Machu Picchu. This led to four decades of study of the Inca engineering and culture.
Gift also funds student sabbatical program, because Eugene Eaton believed ‘studying economics in an international setting would add a lot to the student’s appreciation for the discipline’