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NEW STUDY SHOWS FEDERAL LABS INJECTED $1.5 BILLION INTO STATE’S ECONOMY AND SUPPORTED 16,000 JOBS IN 2010

Mar 31st

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The federal laboratories in Colorado together with their affiliates contributed $1.5 billion to the state economy in fiscal year 2010, and accounted for more than 16,000 direct and indirect jobs, a new survey shows.

The $1.5 billion impact is a 36 percent increase over the $1.1 billion impact for fiscal year 2007, when the Business Research Division of the University of Colorado Boulder’s Leeds School of Business last conducted a survey and analysis.

The study Impact of Federal Research Laboratories in Colorado, 2009-2010 was done at the behest of CO‐LABS, a consortium of federally funded scientific laboratories, universities, businesses, local governments, and community leaders.

There are 24 federal labs in Colorado, ranging from large institutions such as the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to smaller organizations such as the Bureau of Reclamation Technical Services Center and the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere.

The new study, released today and available for review at the CO-LABS website at http://www.co-labs.org/, was prepared to quantify the economic impacts that federal research facilities and their university affiliates have on Boulder, Jefferson, and Larimer Counties, and on the state of Colorado.

The study also aimed to assess the impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on the Colorado labs and on the surrounding communities. It found that total ARRA construction spending jumped from $2.7 million in FY 2009 to $102.7 million in 2010.

“Colorado is home to some of the most advanced research labs in the world,” said Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper. “Their work impacts every aspect of our lives – from the basic research that created the technology for cell phones to predicting the next tsunami. The labs are critical to our state’s economy, providing more than 16,000 jobs in partnership with Colorado universities and industry.”

Net economic benefits to Boulder County totaled $463.8 million in FY 2010, while the totals for Jefferson and Larimer counties were $413.2 million and $99.5 million, respectively. Economic benefits to the rest of the state totaled $523 million. In total, the facilities account for 7,964 direct jobs in Colorado and an additional 8,521 indirect jobs in FY 2010.

Total construction at the facilities, which occupy 4.7 million square feet of leased and owned real estate, topped $84 million in FY 2009 and $201 million in FY 2010.

The study is an update of an economic impact study conducted for CO‐LABS by the Leeds School’s Business Research Division in 2008. The study was titled “CO‐LABS Economic Impact Study: The Impact of Federally Funded Research Laboratories in Colorado.”

The study applied the framework of the Insight Colorado Model to gather data, and utilized IMPLAN to quantify the economic and fiscal impacts of federal research facilities and their affiliates by examining:

–Economic benefits, such as dollars distributed through the economy
–Public revenues, such as tax revenues generated, and
–Public costs such as providing government services to the labs and their employees.

The sources of the impacts include construction, operations, and off-site and secondary effects. Secondary or multiplier effects estimate the indirect employment and earnings generated due to the relationship between the labs and other industries. A lab that spends money on goods and services, while offering partnerships and internships, for example, supports other jobs and other manufacturing operations. The presence of its employees supports retail, entertainment and other industries.

Colorado vs Alabama live feed FREE ESPN3 radio feeds from both

Mar 29th

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http://espn.go.com/espn3/player?id=146831&league=NCAAM&size=condensed

http://www.am760.net/main.html

http://www.ralphiereport.com/2011/3/29/2079750/live-game-thread-nit-semi-finals-colorado-buffaloes-vs-alabama

sorry No video from either school. Very hard to find CU feed . Radio from CU hard to find also did not work. Very poor broadcasting all around for CU.

Bama has a better radio broadcast. AM 76 buried broadcast on their site, plus their play by play guy talks to fast and yells..so he is terrible. But Bama site excellent and announcers can be understood. Good job Bama.

Westwood 1 has a good broadcast of the game too.

CU ANNOUNCES $3.5 MILLION IN GIFTS FROM CONOCOPHILLIPS TO BIOTECH BUILDING

Mar 29th

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Houston-based energy firm ConocoPhillips has made a major gift toward the University of Colorado Boulder’s Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building to bring together world-class scientists and engineers working toward solutions in fields such as medicine and energy.

ConocoPhillips intends to follow up a $1 million January cash gift with proposed future gifts of $2.5 million over the next two years, for an anticipated total of $3.5 million toward a wing of the building to house the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. The department will be one of three CU-Boulder units to occupy the 330,000-square-foot building on the East Campus, along with the Division of Biochemistry and the Colorado Initiative in Molecular Biotechnology, or CIMB. Researchers will begin occupying the building in early 2012.

“The Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building creates a Front Range anchor for the biosciences with the help of partners like ConocoPhillips,” said CU-Boulder Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano. “With interdisciplinary research, the possibilities for energy innovation are limitless, and ConocoPhillips is providing the foundation for this vital work.”

The gifts will name the ConocoPhillips Center for Energy Innovation, and bring under one roof select researchers from two CU-Boulder research programs it supports, the Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels, or C2B2, and the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, or RASEI.

The Caruthers Biotechnology Building aims to dissolve walls and promote collaboration among science and engineering disciplines. Chemical and biological engineering faculty will work with researchers in nearly a dozen academic disciplines and with partners including the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and ConocoPhillips. In all, the building will house 60 tenure-line faculty, 500 graduate students and research associates, and undergraduates working on critical challenges in biotechnology.

CU-Boulder chemical and biological engineers will pursue research that may herald:

–More efficient biofuels production, thanks to novel microbial technologies discovered by the lab of Associate Professor Ryan Gill, C2B2 managing director

–Improved transfer of biomass into synthetic fuels, based on pioneering work by Professor Alan Weimer, C2B2 executive director

–Improved capture of carbon at energy plants, based on liquid membrane technology conceived in the lab of Professor Richard Noble

ConocoPhillips currently sponsors more than $2 million in CU-Boulder faculty research contracts for 2011-13. The university is one of nine participants in the ConocoPhillips SPIRIT Scholars program, which provides scholarships, mentorship and enrichment for students interested in energy careers. CU alumni who have held ConocoPhillips leadership positions include Tom Sears (’52), James Gallogly (’74) and Carin Knickel (’79). The firm is a founding member and lead sponsor of C2B2.

With these gifts, nearly $40 million in private support has been raised for the building, whose construction is funded by a variety of private and public sources including a $15 million American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant.

CU-Boulder’s Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering ranks among the top 10 public graduate programs in the U.S. Its faculty have been awarded more than $25 million in research grants in the past two years, and have won more American Institute of Chemical Engineering awards this past decade than at any university except the University of Texas.

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