Seek new discoveries

Answers to our most pressing problems demand imagination and ingenuity. And we increasingly find those solutions across disciplines, perspectives and cultures. Whether in medicine or music, education or engineering, CU insists upon a collaborative spirit. The discoveries that fundamentally improve our world happen not within a single field but by thinking beyond boundaries into a beautiful laboratory of big ideas.

Did you know? During the Essential CU campaign, donors like you have contributed $1.5 billion to expand research opportunities at CU's four campuses.

Discover below how your gift to CU encourages collaboration and curiousity that helps create new knowledge.

About Essential CU

CU and its donors are essential to our economy, health, culture and social fabric. We solve our world’s most pressing challenges together. Thanks to generous donors like you, we are supporting CU’s academic, research and public service priorities across our four campuses.

Learn more at essential.cu.edu.

CU Anschutz Fund for Excellence

Science, Research & Innovation

To provide a flexible funding source to address CU Anschutz's most promising priorities in support of research, education and patient care.

Financial Aid Endowment Fund - Need Based.

Scholarships & Student Success

To provide scholarship support for students with demonstrated financial need at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Chancellor's Innovation Fund

Scholarships & Student Success

To provide flexible support to address the campus's most promising priorities in enhancing student success and CU Denver's prominence as an institution of higher education.

Biofrontiers Institute - UCCS Center Project Fund

Science, Research & Innovation

To provide support for program expenses associated with the UCCS Center of the Biofrontiers Institute located at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs.