“I had no idea.” Kirill Buzinov, a recent University of Colorado Denver Business School Financial Management undergraduate, received a Business School Student Club Leaders Scholarship without ever applying for it. It was not gifted to him because he looks nice in a suit, but because he demonstrated strong leadership skills in a student organization, specifically CU Denver Finance and Risk Management and Insurance (RMI) Club.  Read more

The Beta Mu chapter of the University of Colorado Denver was initiated into Gamma Iota Sigma, the fraternity for students of insurance, risk management and actuarial science, in a ceremony held Saturday night ahead of the Risk & Insurance Management Society Inc.’s annual conference and exhibition. The new chapter is the 60th to join GIS, which chartered its first chapter in 1966 and boasts an annual membership of more than 2,100 students and an alumni population of over 20,000.  Read more

The MBA Student Organization (MBASO) recently held their “What I Did With My MBA” event designed to help prepare students for life after CU Denver. The event, which was sponsored by the CU Denver Student Government Association, featured a panel of CU Denver Business School graduates who are now working in various fields. The panel included:

• Adam Boushie, Enterprise Territory Manager at Google
• Ellen Puckett, AVP, Corporate Technology Group at OppenheimerFunds
• Chris Varani, Project Manager at Physicians Ally, Medical Student