The Grand Opening of the new University of Colorado Business School Building is coming up soon, but you don’t have to wait to get a sneak peek at some of the new spaces in the building. The first two floors of the building are currently open to students but these pictures are from areas that are not yet accessible. Here is your chance to get a look at the progress that is being made on the new home of the Business School.  Read more

A new article from CNN Money ranks Colorado as the 4^th most Entrepreneurial state in the Union, following only Arizona, Texas and California. The rankings are taken from the Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity, which is published by the Kauffman Foundation.  According to the Kauffman Foundation, “The Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity measures the rate of business creation at the individual owner level.  Read more

CU Denver marketing students present their winning branding campaign at State Capitol DENVER – A group of creative graduate students in the MS in Marketing program think it’s time local firms stamped “Colorado Born” pride in their business story and trumpeted the state’s many enterprise-friendly virtues through an eye-catching branding campaign.  Read more

Gift will support programs at Center for Commodities DENVER – A strong knowledge base and commodities workforce is key to our nation’s future and to Colorado’s economy. But no university has offered a comprehensive academic program incorporating industries as diverse as energy, agriculture and mining. To fill this gap, the University of Colorado Denver Business School will launch a Center for Commodities in Spring 2012 to educate commodities professionals and expand knowledge in this area of study.  Read more

Dean Ambron speaks to class and welcomes them to ‘phenomenal new home’ DENVER – The new University of Colorado Denver Business School building was christened this morning with its first class – the start of the new term for the 11-month MBA program. It was a fitting opening for the Business School building, since the 11-month MBA program, when it started in 1998, was one of the first accelerated MBA programs in the nation.  Read more

You want higher education to offer more real-life applications? Then check out this new Bioinnovation program, which is doing its part to make bioscience students more employable. “We have an oversupply of Ph.D. bioscience graduates relative to the number of bioscience jobs that are available,” says Arlen Meyers, a University of Colorado Denver professor who’s teaching a course titled, “Building Biotechnologies: Fundamentals of Life Science Technology and Entrepreneurship,” one of three required to earn a certificate in bioentrepreneurship.  Read more