The bear hug between the mom in a cap and gown and son in Navy fatigues went on for more than a minute. Zac Drake, stationed in Japan, hadn’t seen his mother, Beth Rozinek, in 18 months. He surprised her by flying in for her graduation. Spring Commencement took place Saturday morning under sunny skies on the Auraria Fields. More than 1,900 University of Colorado Denver graduates, many of them non-traditional students like Rozinek, received degrees.  Read more

Meeting with Senator Simpson was beyond thrilling! I have never been able to engage so fully with tax reform and fiscal change. However, he offered up many words of wisdom, including, “What goes up must come down. Do not ever make the mistake of getting too full of yourself”. This is what I enjoyed most, his willingness to share advice that can be translated into any career field and applied widely throughout life.  Read more

Twenty-three students will soon receive their certificates from the first Lifecycle of Oil and Natural Gas Certificate program offered by the Global Energy Management Program (GEM) at CU Denver in partnership with the Denver Petroleum Club (DPC).  Read more

DENVER  –  The University of Colorado Denver Business School is poised to dramatically expand its entrepreneurship education, research, programmatic reach, and caliber—thanks to a $10 million pledge by Jake Jabs, founder and CEO of American Furniture Warehouse, to CU Denver.  Read more

Just hours before the vice presidential candidates sparred in a lively debate on Thursday night, barely touching on energy policy, an equally spirited discussion struck on that very topic, courtesy of the third annual Energy Moving Forward forum. A panel exchanged partisan blows in “The Future We Want: Student Perspectives on Energy Policy and its Ramifications,” part of the half-day conference held in the Terrace Room at the University of Colorado Denver.  Read more