The J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities at the University of Colorado Denver Business School will host Kenneth B. Medlock III, PhD, for the first Encana Distinguished Lecture Series event on April 15. Medlock is the James A. Baker III and Susan G. Baker Fellow in Energy and Resource Economics at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and the senior director of the Center for Energy Studies, as well as an adjunct professor and lecturer in the Department of Economics at Rice University.  Read more

CU Denver Business School Associate Professor of Finance Jian Yang has been recognized for his work in commodities education and research by Commodity HQ. Yang was named among the top 15 ‘Commodity Friendly’ academics in the world on the Commodity HQ website.  Read more

Students from the University of Colorado Denver Business School are competing for the first time in the annual CME Group Commodity Trading Challenge. The challenge pits teams from Universities around the world in a competition trading on Crude Oil, Gold and Corn Futures in, with teams compiling the greatest returns advancing to a championship round.  Read more

Bette Smith, director of the J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities at the University of Colorado Denver Business School, spoke about the school and her new position with JLN’s Christine Nielsen. She highlights the program’s state-of-the-art finance and commodities lab, innovative courses, and the overwhelmingly-positive feedback. In the interview, Smith includes her take on why Denver is a good place for an educational center for commodity markets.  Read more