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• University sells bathroom naming rights

  - 2008-03-01

  IT'S BATHROOM HUMOR IN good taste: A venture capitalist paying $25,000 for the rights to name a lavatory on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus. The second-floor men's restroom in the ATLAS building now features donor Brad Feld's name and a plaque with his words of wisdom: "The best...

  Tags: ATLAS, FINANCE, Government, Investment, Strategy, University of Colorado

• INCUBATOR CEO CHOCK-FULL OF PLANS

  - 2007-11-11

  Duncan Stewart is a blur of ideas. He has dozens he wants to carry out. One, for example, would be a boot camp for wounded veterans who want to start their own businesses. Another would be a second location for the incubator that would cater in part...

  Tags: aerospace, Air Force, Biotechnology, Entrepreneurship, Government, Manufacturing, tenant, University of Colorado

• Letters

  - 2007-07-27

  WARD OF THE STATE Fired professor asked good questions Ward Churchill's firing caused me to read his infamous essay, "Some People Push Back: On The Justice Of Roosting Chickens," to see what all the fuss was about. It's pretty radical stuff. But if readers...

  Tags: Benefits, Government, HEALTHCARE, SOFTWARE, University of Colorado

• Letters

  - 2006-02-03

  HOMETOWN SUPPORT UCCS program meets needs for defense projects It is with sincere appreciation that we write to publicly thank Colorado's congressional delegation for its support and interest in the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and its efforts in the areas of homeland...

  Tags: Government, SALES, Strategy, teacher, University of Colorado

• Colorado student victim of hate crime; community responds with reward.(University of Colorado, Andrew Sterling)(Brief Article)

  - 2005-07-01

  A University of Colorado student was attacked because of his race as he walked down a Boulder street last month. According to university officials, 22-year-old Andrew Sterling was walking with a friend down a Boulder street around 2 a.m. when a van pulled along...

  Tags: Government, HEALTHCARE, University of Colorado

• Churchill controversy represents a split in America

  - 2005-03-09

  Mohawk, John Indian Country Today Lakota Times 03-09-2005 The firestorm surrounding University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill has not abated. In case you've been living in a Himalayan cave, Churchill was the director of the Ethnic Studies department at his university who...

  Tags: academia, America, Government, U.S., University of Colorado, World Trade Center

• Phil DiStefano has taken on the interim chancellor's post at the embattled University of Colorado at Boulder

  - 2005-03-01

  Phil DiStefano has taken on the interim chancellor's post at the embattled University of Colorado at Boulder. He has been provost and chief academic officer for the past four years. DiStefano takes on new duties at a time of continuing controversy for UC Boulder. The most recent criticism is focused...

  Tags: chancellor, Government, professor, University of Colorado

• Homeland Defense Partners to Join Forces within Solution Created by Zanett's Paragon Dynamics

  - 2005-02-15

  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Zanett, Inc.'s IT Commonwealth Member Paragon Dynamics, Inc. PDI has partnered with the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs UCCS, Network Information and Space Security Center NISSC, to deploy dynamicPACER, a PDI built real time collaboration solution. The NISSC Extended Virtual Environment NEVE, powered by dynamicPACE,...

  Tags: Collaboration, Government, Groupware, SOFTWARE, University of Colorado

• Americans have plenty to give others

  - 2005-01-23

  In the 21st chapter of the Gospel according to St. Luke, the following words appear: "Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury; and he saw a poor widow put in two copper coins. And he said, 'Truly I tell you, this poor widow has...

  Tags: Government, SOFTWARE, University of Colorado

• Groups Sue to Stop Colorado Public Projects, Saying Funds Create Illegal Debt.

  - 2003-10-08

  By Kit Miniclier, The Denver Post Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 8--The Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition filed suit Tuesday to halt construction of a new prison in Canon City and educational buildings at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center...

  Tags: Colorado, construction, Government, SOFTWARE, University of Colorado