Your Impact: Programs & Initiatives

Nov 12, 2024

Dr. Steven M. Vose will become the inaugural holder of the Bhagwan Suparshvanatha Endowed Chair in Jain Studies, which is made possible by members of the Jain community. It is the first endowed chair of Religious Studies at CU Denver, opening doors for students, faculty, and the public to learn more about this ancient religion.

Oct 31, 2024

CU Denver’s quantum information technology (QIT) certificate program provides a balance between theory and practice. Fifty percent of the coursework includes instructional laboratories and the curriculum is built to fit the industry’s documented needs.

Oct 1, 2024

Student work is now a prominent feature along Denver’s 16th Street Mall, courtesy of the 2023-24 cohort of the ColoradoBuildingWorkshop. Students designed and built four kiosks aimed at helping emerging businesses take their first steps toward brick-and-mortar success.

Apr 17, 2024 by Jackson Campbell

Short for “Mentors Instructing Students Towards Effective Role Models,” the Call Me MiSTER program aims to recruit inspiring male teachers by offering financial and academic support as well as the opportunity to learn and grow within a cohort over the course of their academic careers.

Feb 20, 2024

At CU Denver, investing in your education is about more than getting a degree. It is about becoming part of a community that connects the dots between big and small ideas and develops innovative learners that give back. That practice is on display at the Business School’s Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship.

Feb 19, 2024 by Jackson Campbell

CU Denver’s Business School introduced Empowering Women in Business (EWiB), a program launched last fall to equip students with the distinct tools they need to navigate the workforce and successfully pursue leadership roles in their careers. Now in its second semester, EWiB thus far has served as an incredible beacon of inspiration that acknowledges often overlooked issues regarding the playing field between men and women in the workplace.

Nov 13, 2023

The future may present many questions, and thanks to a strategic and philanthropic investment from Google, CU Denver’s new Quantum Information Technology Certificate Program holds the promise for many new answers—answers that could reduce the environmental impact of batteries, make food production more efficient, and lower the cost of health care, to name just a few.

Mar 8, 2023

This academic year, a number of students at CU Denver are giving more thought to the effects of their choices and activities on the world around them as they practice a day of ahimsa, or non-violence. The exercise is part of their study of the Jain religion in classes taught by Dr. Steven Vose, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences' inaugural Bhagwan Suparshvanatha Endowed Professor in Jain Studies.

Dec 13, 2022

$168,869 was awarded to a pilot scholarship program through the Dana Crawford Preservation Program in the University of Colorado Denver, “Colorado has a unique opportunity, because of the State Historical Fund, to build a program that could be the first in the country to begin to address this need,” said Steve Turner, assistant professor and director of historic preservation and classical studies at the university.

Nov 1, 2022

CU Denver's Colorado Building Workshop is educating future architects while taking on its most ambitious project yet.