Newly elected Congressman Jason Crow was immersed in the complex process of standing up a brand new Congressional office when he toured the CU Anschutz Medical Campus to learn about their important education, research and clinical missions.
The Office of Government Relations (OGR) presented CU's Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 appropriations requests to the Colorado congressional delegation in Washington, DC. The university's priorities reflect the higher education community's funding requests for research, education, and workforce development accounts of importance to CU's academic, research and public outreach missions.
Terri Fiez, CU Boulder's Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation and Jun Ye, Director of the CUbit Quantum Initiative, met with leadership at the White House, federal research agencies, and in Congress to discuss the university's unique strengths in quantum information sciences, as well as its support for fully funding federal quantum activities authorized in the National Quantum Initiative, which was enacted last year.
CU Boulder Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation, Terri Fiez, was selected to represent leading research universities at a press roundtable in Washington, D.C.
Senator Cory Gardner and Congressman Mike Coffman joined CU President Bruce Benson; CU Anschutz Medical Campus Chancellor Don Elliman; School of Medicine Dean John J. Reilly, Jr. and CU Vice President for Health Affairs Lilly Marks at the groundbreaking for the new Bioscience 3 Building.
John Sunnygard, Executive Director of International Affairs at the Office of International Affairs at CU Denver, discussed international education and its impact on CU, Colorado, and the nation on Captiol Hill.
Mark Rentschler and Xinlin Li, from the College of Engineering and Applied Science, and Dan Baker, Director of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), represented CU Boulder at the Coalition for National Science Funding (CNSF) annual exhibition in Washington, DC.