TREP Café Awards First Scholarship
Sara Klymkowsky, a senior completing a double degree in Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology and Finance, is the first recipient of the TREP Café $1,000 undergraduate scholarship. Her Honors Thesis is on the small-scale sustainable agricultural business she’s started in Boulder County and she is also earning the Certificate of Excellence in Entrepreneurial Studies. Sara’s plans after graduation are to join an investment banking boutique focusing in healthcare and biotechnology and to continue her dream of
helping to bring funding to private companies that offer novel medications to the public.
Green Tech Meetup in Boulder
According to the Meetup website this is the 4th largest alternative energy meetup in the world with a current size of 604 members. Meetings started earlier this year in the Leeds School. The Deming Center serves as the host sponsor with Access Ventures, Sequel Ventures, Green Spark Ventures, and Infield Capital as financial sponsors. After quickly outgrowing a classroom and then a lecture hall, monthly meetings are now in the Atlas Building on the CU-Boulder campus on the 2nd Thursday evening of each month. For more information please visit http://alternativeenergy.meetup.com/171/.
Team Chalk Talk
Chalk Talk LLC is business based on a plan that won the fall 2007 undergraduate business plan competition at Leeds. In July, Microsoft took an interest in a few college students who were using Microsoft tools to build a messaging system. Chalk Talk’s engineer, Rob Witoff, a senior in aerospace engineering was asked to write a “quasi-technical” post for one of Microsoft’s blogs http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/ The Chalk Talk team is interested to see what kind of traffic Microsoftcan bring to their business. Chalk Talk’s other business partners are recent management and entrepreneurship, and Erik Skurka masters in accounting.
Rockefeller Foundation Names Top Campuses in Sustainability
The University of Colorado at Boulder has been named one of the top 15 campuses in the nation for sustainability by the Rockefeller Foundation. The College Sustainability Report Card is considered the most credible and respected national ranking of its kind because it is the only independent sustainability evaluation of campus operations and endowment investments. Among the schools included in the foundation's 2009 top 15 list are Brown University,
Columbia University, Harvard University and Stanford University. Go to http://www.greenreportcard.org/ for the full report.