Chris Leach

Q&A: Professor Leach discusses new support for de Soto Capital Markets program

Dec. 15, 2016

Leeds Professor Chris Leach talks about $3.7 million in new gifts to support the Hernando de Soto Capital Markets Program, which introduces first-year business students to foundational ideas in ethics, business, law and economics, including those of de Soto, a Peruvian economist who champions individual property rights as one of the cornerstones to economic empowerment for people in emerging nations.

Sharon Matusik working with a student

Matusik named interim business school dean

Nov. 21, 2016

University of Colorado Boulder Provost Russell L. Moore today announced the appointment of Sharon F. Matusik as the interim dean of the Leeds School of Business.

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New research lab to take Colorado's political pulse

Nov. 2, 2016

The newly created American Politics Research Lab, housed in the Department of Political Science, aims to involve undergraduate and graduate students in taking Colorado's political pulse every year. “This is the first year of what we hope will be an ongoing record of opinion on public affairs within the state,” said political scientist Scott Adler.

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Campus launches into redesigned accreditation review

Oct. 18, 2016

The campus community is once again embarking on an accreditation review by the nonprofit Higher Learning Commission (HLC), an independent corporation founded in 1895 as one of six regional institutional accreditors in the United States.

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Most diverse, academically qualified freshman class settles into college life

Sept. 16, 2016

Their average SAT score is 1191; ACT composite 27.3; and high school GPA 3.66. The freshman class of 6,439 is also the most diverse, with 26 percent U.S. students of color enrolled. Seventeen percent are first in their families to go to college. Of the freshmen from Colorado, 33.4 percent are Esteemed Scholars.

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$5.9 million grant to expand youth violence prevention work in Denver

Sept. 6, 2016

The Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of Colorado Boulder has received a five-year $5.9 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to expand its youth violence prevention work in two Denver neighborhoods.

CU students posing with Lockheed Martin Chief Technology Officer Keoki Jackson

New partnership with Lockheed Martin forges research, career opportunities for students

Aug. 25, 2016

A new $3 million sponsorship by Lockheed Martin announced Thursday will establish academic programs focused on radio frequency (RF) systems. RF fields address commercial, civil and military needs for communications, radar and photonics. For students, the partnership means even more opportunities to get real-world experience in tracking, navigation and spacecraft control as well as next-generation global navigation technologies.

Senior museum educator Jim Hakala, left, and anthropology curator Steve Lekson prepare a fossil kit to be delivered to a Colorado classroom.

Fossil kits bring CU-Boulder museum to classrooms across Colorado

April 21, 2016

Jim Hakala is hitting the road Friday with bins of captivating remnants of the ancient past. Among other things, he’s got fossilized fern, leaves, shark teeth, dinosaur bone, fish, petrified wood and a trilobite. This time, he’s targeting fourth grade classrooms in mostly northeastern Colorado with 12 of his “fossil kits,” courtesy of the CU Museum of Natural History, along with a standards-based curriculum for use by teachers.

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Feminine women deemed less likely to be scientists, CU Boulder study finds

April 7, 2016

Female scientists who have “feminine” traits such as longer hair and finer facial features are generally assumed to be non-scientists, a University of Colorado Boulder study has found.

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Rapid growth in elderly inmate population raises complex policy questions

Dec. 15, 2015

While it may not be a surprise that the number of elderly inmates is growing in the United States, the pace of that growth and the complexity of the inmates’ health problems is posing new challenges to researchers, policymakers and correctional employees.

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