$1.2 million gift to launch summer program in China

Jan. 22, 2009

A $1.2 million gift from the Tang Fund of New York to the University of Colorado at Boulder, the largest endowed gift ever made to the Center for Asian Studies, will allow students to experience China through a new study abroad program. The Tang Fund donation to CU-Boulder will provide...

Visual Arts Complex

Art Takes Center Stage

Dec. 1, 2008

Lisa Tamiris Becker’s name will be immortalized in the new Visual Arts Complex at the University of Colorado. The advisory board to the CU Art Museum has raised funds to name a space in the new arts complex after Becker, director of the CU Art Museum. Naming a space in...

Peter Henning Jr.

Friend to physics leads full, diverse life

Dec. 1, 2008

Peter Henning Jr. could have gone to college early in life. He was valedictorian of the high school class of 1939 in Stanwood, Wash. He won a scholarship to Washington State University. Academics seemed to be his future. But Henning’s father preferred that the younger man run a dairy farm...

Does ‘lefty college’ seek ‘right-wing prof’? No

Dec. 1, 2008

But publicity highlights high-priority initiative The Wall Street Journal headline worked, insofar as it got readers’ attention: “Help Wanted: Lefty College Seeks Right-Wing Prof,” it said. The subject of the story, which quickly aroused the national and regional media, was the proposal to establish a Visiting Chair of Conservative Thought...

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