2008 News Articles
More than $8 million in grants have been given to local organizations developing talent for the region's high-demand jobs
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Infinite Power Solutions, Inc. (IPS), a leader in the development and commercialization of solid-state, rechargeable thin-film batteries, announced on...
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Metro Denver ranked as the third-best metro area for business in 2008, according to a study released Dec. 2, 2008 by MarketWatch, a division of Dow Jo...
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced it has selected Lockheed Martin for award of a contract to build the next-generatio...
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Tech-Western, Inc. has initiated the process to convert the Northwest Parkway facilities to an environmentally sound operation functioning exclusively...
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With the spark from a high intensity road flare, engineers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory lit its new, smoke-...
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Colorado's Governor’s Energy Office (GEO) released its first annual report for Fiscal Year 2008, including details of the office’s programs, budget an...
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John Collar, Chief Operating Officer of Westminster-based Matrilinex, a start up mitochondrial DNA testing lab company, has been named Executive Direc...
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With input from local business and citizens, Commerce City has named Brittany Morris as the new director of economic development. Morris will join the...
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Denver Office of Economic Development convenes panel discussion on business/developer financing
The Denver Office of Economic Development invites bus...
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ABC News’ Good Morning America has selected Denver to be one of three cities featured in the window of their Times Square studio, offering the Mile Hi...
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Popular Science magazine has named University of Colorado at Boulder chemical and biological engineering Distinguished Professor Kristi Anseth as one ...
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Colorado State University's Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory is the lead institution of a $12.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation'...
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Gov. Bill Ritter and a delegation of Colorado business, economic development and university officials wrapped up a 10-day trade mission to Asia today,...
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Saudi Arabia honored Chih Ted Yang, a civil engineering professor at Colorado State University, with an international prize for water engineering - on...
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The nation’s first aerospace business incubator opened it doors Nov. 19 at the Colorado School of Mines, positioning the state as a global economic ce...
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Today, Envirofit International, a leader in creating sustainable, scalable business models to solve global health and environmental problems, announce...
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The CU-Boulder Energy Initiative, in partnership with regional federal labs, hosted an Energy Research Symposium on November 17, 2008 at the Univ...
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At a time when mental health services are shrinking, Colorado communities served by specially educated mental health nurses just received significant ...
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Gov. Bill Ritter today opened a Colorado economic development and trade mission to Asia, meeting in Tokyo with officials from All Nippon Airways, a Ja...
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Lt. Gov. Barbara O'Brien today announced the continued greening of the Colorado's State Capitol with the installation of a solar photovoltaic (PV) sys...
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NCAA Women’s Basketball Final Four to be held in Denver in 2012
The NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Committee announced on Nov. 14, 2008 ...
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People may consider theaters, museums and other arts, cultural and scientific nonprofits to be "organizations" or "institutions." But in actuality, th...
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The Colorado BioScience Association (CBSA) released winners of its 2008 Awards Program. The announcement was made by Christine Shapard, CBSA Int...
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Gov. Bill Ritter announced a series of aggressive economic-development initiatives that will be launched in November and December to keep Coloradans w...
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For 99 years, the city’s convention and tourism marketing agency has gone by a variety of names, everything from the Denver Tourist and Publicity Bure...
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Solix Biofuels, a Fort Collins-based alternative energy technology firm focused on algae-based intermediates for fuel and chemical production, announc...
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Gov. Bill Ritter announced today that 40 Colorado business, economic-development and research leaders will travel with him to Japan and China later th...
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A total of 4,017,761 passengers used Denver International Airport in September, a 1.7 percent increase over the 3,951,172 travelers recorded at the fa...
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Denver was the only non-costal city ranked in the top tier of national cities to watch in the recently released Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2009 Re...
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Gov. Bill Ritter unveiled a lean budget for fiscal 2009-10, a proposal that will hold spending well below the state's growth limit, stimulate Colorado...
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The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) convened its most successful clean energy investment forum to date October...
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The University of Colorado announced a $5 million endowment gift from former Myogen CEO and local entrepreneur Bill Freytag and his wife, Janet, in su...
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Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter previewed his economic agenda for 2009 during the annual meeting of the Economic Developers Council of Colorado in Colorado ...
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More than 700 industry leaders will convene November 13 & 14 for the sixth annual BioWest event at the Grand Hyatt in Denver.
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Lieutenant Governor Barbara O’Brien announced October 28, 2008 as Colorado Culture of Health Day at the Colorado Culture of Health: Exercising Fiscal ...
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The Financial Times, one of the world’s leading business newspapers, based in London, ranked the University of Denver’s Daniels College of Business Ex...
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A United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket, on behalf of Boeing Launch Services, successfully launched the third Italian-built Constellation of Small Sa...
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IBM Corp. inked a five-year, $500 million contract to provide information systems infrastructure services to Amgen Inc., the biotech giant disclosed O...
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University of Colorado at Boulder Professor Alexander Repenning has been awarded a $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation for his wor...
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A new poll commissioned by the Metro Denver WIRED Initiative - a partnership among workforce development, economic development, education, and industr...
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Colorado State University announced today that it received a $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. ...
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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has selected Qwest Communications International Inc. as its contractor for the delivery of voice and data...
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Envirofit International, a leader in creating sustainable, scalable businesses that help solve global health and environmental problems, is ramping up...
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Continuum Lakewood Development Company, in association with MMA Renewable Ventures, a subsidiary of Municipal Mortgage & Equity, LLC (Pink Sheets:...
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Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association and Xcel Energy will jointly pursue transmission projects in southern Colorado under a Memorandum of...
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Conference to explain how companies can benefit from a healthy workforce
Colorado is the nation's skinniest state. Can that positively affect a ...
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The Regional Transportation District (RTD) announced that it carried more than 100 million passenger trips for the 12-month period ending in July 2008...
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The University of Colorado Foundation on Oct. 20, 2008 announced a $2 million pledge by Jack (Hist '64, MA '70) and Jeannie Thomps...
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The Colorado Growth and Revitalization Fund, LLC (CGR Fund), a partnership between the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority (CHFA), the City and Cou...
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Denver releases comprehensive report analyzing economic impacts and other community benefits
While the Democratic National Convention ended just seve...
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Gov. Bill Ritter announced on October 16, 2008 that the Colorado state Capitol has become the first Capitol in the nation to obtain a presti...
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Annual benchmark study examines competitive factors related to economic growth
In the fourth edition of Toward a More Competitive Colorado, the Metro...
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Pieter Johnson, an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has won a highly prestigious Davi...
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Bolder BioTechnology, Inc. announced October 15 that it has been awarded a $1.6 million Phase II Continuing Renewal Small Business Innovation Research...
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The Center for Revolutionary Solar Photoconversion (CRSP) is launching 12 novel solar research projects totaling more than $1.1 million in its inaugur...
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The U. S. Department Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the Colorado CleanTech Initiative announce participation of the following Color...
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General registration is now open for the Rocky Mountain Region’s Premier Bioscience Conference and Expo, BioWest 2008. More than 700 industry leaders ...
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New therapeutic drugs for life threatening disease and trauma; devices made of new materials that work with the body; a highly-sensitive detector of t...
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CH2M HILL has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to help 25 American cities accelerate the adoption of solar energy. The contract is...
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Mayor John Hickenlooper joined Deputy Mayor/Public Works Manager Guillermo "Bill" Vidal in announcing the completion of Denver’s Strategic Transportat...
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The prestigious Rocky Mountain Institute in Snowmass has selected Colorado State University for a national study on best practices to reduce greenhous...
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SkyFuel, Inc. secured its position as a leader in the rapidly growing concentrating solar power (CSP) industry by unveiling the SkyTrough(TM): the hig...
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New Haven, Conn.-based BioRelix Inc. has signed an exclusive license agreement with the University of Colorado Technology Transfer Office for technolo...
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Six public and private sector entities, all with a keen interest in advancing and accelerating the commercialization of solar technology, have joined ...
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The Metro Denver WIRED Initiative is hosting a Career Polling Event October 23 at the Denver Newspaper Agency. Dr. David Hill, director of Hill Res...
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The University of Colorado Board of Regents approved a new Master of Science degree on October 7, 2008 for the University of Colorado Denver...
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DigitalGlobe, a leading global content provider of high-resolution world imagery solutions, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Micro...
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Colorado State University's Warner College of Natural Resources announced today that it will receive $950,000 in the form of a research grant from She...
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The University of Colorado Denver (UC Denver) has been awarded more than $26 million to participate in the National Institutes of Health's comprehensi...
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The University of Colorado at Boulder's Energy Initiative, created in 2006 to help meet the world's sustainable and renewable energy needs, announced ...
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As labor unions agreed Thursday to pull four, economy-killing initiatives from the November ballot, the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce and Coloradan...
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A new management team takes charge at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) today. The Alliance for Sustainable ...
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On October 1, 2008, Abengoa Solar announced the award of two R&D projects in the field of Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) by the U.S. Department o...
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Despite a declining U.S. economy, northern Colorado is projected to add more than 4,000 new jobs in 2009, according to a report released today by two ...
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Researchers from the University of Colorado Cancer Center (UCCC) have been awarded a $599,999 grant from the Susan G. Komen Foundation for the Cure to...
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ProLogis, the world's largest owner, manager and developer of distribution facilities, announced today that it will participate in a new, national stu...
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The University of Colorado at Boulder has received a $1 million grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to establish a new worldwide consortium to help ...
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Gov. Bill Ritter today joined officials and researchers from the University of Colorado and the Colorado School of Mines to announce $16.5 million in ...
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Anna and John J. Sie have high hopes for their granddaughter Sophia, born five years ago with Down syndrome. Today, through the largest private contri...
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Devon Energy Corporation announced a $500,000 gift to the Colorado School of Mines Foundation to provide funding for a laboratory in a new petroleum e...
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Petroleum Development Corporation (PDC) announced September 17 that it is changing the official corporate headquarters to Denver effective March 1, 20...
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In the largest research contract ever awarded to the University of Colorado at Boulder, the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics has been sele...
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The Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce and the Colorado Energy Coalition are introducing a quarterly series on the latest information regarding the fast...
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Colorado State University aims to be carbon neutral - reducing its greenhouse gas emissions through conservation and alternative energy sources - by 2...
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IKEA, the world’s leading home furnishings retailer, announced September 10 it is submitting plans to the City of Centennial for a store that would in...
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Aims Community College, Colorado State University, Front Range Community College, and the University of Northern Colorado are collaborating on a joint...