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CU-Boulder ranks No. 1 nationally for Peace Corps volunteers
The University of Colorado Boulder is building on its reputation for having its students and alumni engaged in the world. The campus recently reached the top ranking nationally of alumni serving in the Peace Corps. There are 117 CU-Boulder alumni serving in the Peace Corps around the world, according to the organization. We ranked second last year, and overall, we are fifth all-time among schools producing volunteers. Since President John F. Kennedy formed the Peace Corps in 1961, 2,269 graduates of CU-Boulder have served. Chancellor Phil DiStefano said this year's top ranking and the university's history with the organization are emblematic of the focus on service learning and civically engaged students. Each year, more than 13,000 CU-Boulder students participate in some form of community service. In 2008, the campus was one of only three colleges and universities in the United States to receive a Presidential Award for General Community Service.
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Colorado Springs to host 2012 World University softball and boxing championships
The University of Colorado Colorado Springs recently learned it will be host to a pair of international sporting events in summer 2012. The International University Sports Federation announced in late January that UCCS will be the site of its World University Championships in softball (Aug. 2-11) and Boxing (Aug. 2-10). More than 300 athletes and officials from 30 nations will participate. Events are part of a schedule of 33 winter and summer World University Championships in 2012. At UCCS, athletes and officials will be housed at the Summit Village Residence Halls and Alpine Village Apartments on campus. The boxing will be at the Gallogly Events Center and softball will be at the Four Diamonds Sports Complex, which has hosted several NCAA Division II playoffs.
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Beverly Buck appointed to Grantmakers for Children, Youth, and Families board
Bringing 30 years of philanthropic expertise and program design experience with her, University of Colorado Denver's Beverly Buck was one of five new members recently appointed to the national board of Grantmakers in Children, Youth and Families (GCYF). Buck, a senior research associate at the Buechner Institute for Governance at UCD's School of Public Affairs, will join the 14-member board that provides guidance to GCYF's overall efforts to improve grantmaking on behalf of children and families. The work of GCYF parallels work at the Buechner Institute, whose goal is to help advance collaboration across systems and disciplines to create better public policy outcomes for children and families. The GCYF also serves as a forum to review and analyze grant making strategies, exchange information about effective programs, examine public policy developments and maintain discussions with national leaders.
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School of Medicine wins $3.9 million grant for whole-person health care
The importance of the work being done at the Anschutz Medical Campus was highlighted recently when the Colorado Health Foundation gave a $3.9 million grant to Advancing Care Together (ACT), a program dedicated to bringing comprehensive, integrated, whole-person health care systems to the people of Colorado. Based in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, ACT is a four-year program designed to produce the best practice models of comprehensive, integrated health care by bringing together local and national health leaders to tackle the issue of health care fragmentation. Dr. Larry Green, director of ACT, says this fragmentation has created entirely separate systems of care between the physical and mental sides of the patient, which creates duplication of efforts, hamstrings clinicians with incomplete date, undermines comprehensive care and fails to give patients the care they need. Anne Warhover, CEO of the Colorado Health Foundation, says the integration of behavioral and physical health services is a key area of focus for her group. "There is an overwhelming need for a systemic approach in developing best practices, addressing financial barriers and driving policy solutions that will allow for statewide implementation and sustainability of a better model. That's why the work of ACT is so important to the people of Colorado and why we have invested in its efforts."
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