Faculty Upside Down sessions encourage casual conversation between students and faculty DENVER — PeterMax Miller, an instructor of marketing, has a winning style with students. You can tell by the way their faces light up when they see him, the way they greet him with a fist pump. So it makes perfect sense that the Office of Student Life kicked off its new series of faculty-student socials, called “Faculty Upside Down,” with Miller on Feb.  Read more

More than 500 attend annual Donor Dinner for the University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus “For Jean Barban, every day is a gift. Fifteen years ago her heart stopped.” The annual Donor Recognition Dinner always highlights inspiring stories of generosity, passion and vision, but this year’s event chronicled a tale that went straight to the heart.  Read more

Professionals entering global energy system need a holistic understanding of the industry, Kaminski says Students who gain a big-picture understanding of the global energy system will find a wealth of job prospects in the evolving energy industry, Vincent Kaminski, Ph.D., told a CU Denver Business School audience on Feb. 13. “I tell my students that if they choose to specialize in energy, they cannot make a wrong decision,” said Kaminski, a professor in Rice University’s business school.  Read more

The Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship Business Plan Competition (BPC) at the CU Denver Business School has been one of the foremost events for early-stage companies in Colorado, and is now expanding to the Rocky Mountain West. This competition seeks to promote the development of high-caliber business ideas, and recognize the most outstanding plans with more than $50,000 in cash and in-kind awards.  Read more

PIMCO executive a featured guest of CU Denver’s J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities DENVER – When world stock markets plunged on Black Monday in October 1987, one asset class held remarkably steady. “If you looked at the markets and economy through the eyes of the commodity index, people kept drinking their coffee, eating their Wheaties,” Robert Greer, executive vice president and manager of Real Return Products at PIMCO, told a large CU Denver Business School audience at a lunchtime discussion on Jan.  Read more

Fowke delivers an energy outlook at CU Denver’s Global Energy Management program’s CEO Briefing DENVER – Xcel Energy is on track to reduce its carbon emissions by almost 35 percent by 2020 and continues progressive approaches to meeting environmental challenges, customer needs and the demands of today’s two-way energy system, CEO Ben Fowke said at CU Denver.  Read more

Global Energy Management hosts robust discussions that drill into one of state’s key industries DENVER – Water recycling remains relatively uncommon in oil fields — less than 10 percent of water used in hydraulic fracturing is recycled — but the practice is gaining momentum as technology and infrastructure evolves. A wide range of energy experts from the academic, business and government worlds met for a robust three-hour discussion about the water-energy nexus on Jan.  Read more