Colorado State University has named a new strain of wheat “Bill Brown” as tribute to a longtime CSU professor and Extension plant pathologist who died in 2003. The new variety has shown high yields in Colorado and excellent defense from leaf and stripe rust.
Frontier Airlines will add new flights from Memphis, Tenn., beginning in September. Frontier will add a third daily flight to Denver and daily service to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Nov. 15 and a second flight to Orlando, Fla., on Dec. 15; and increase weekly flights to Las Vegas to five on Sept. 6.
Denver-based China Wireless Communications Inc. announced it has been selected by Hongmeigui Foods Ltd., based in Tianjin, China, to engineer manufacturing-plant computer-network systems along with the network-management system to manage them.
The Association of American Educators, the largest national nonunion teachers association, announced that the recently formed Professional Association of Colorado Educators is its newest affiliate in Colorado.
5280 Solutions, a Denver- based software developer, announced it has entered into a business partnership with Resolve Corp. to offer enhanced technical services to their clients in the Canadian student- loan industry.
Evergreen Energy Inc. president and CEO Kevin R. Collins and Patrick Zimmerman, founder and chief technology officer of Evergreen’s wholly owned subsidiary C-Lock Technology Inc., will appear before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works at a field hearing Aug. 14 in San Jose, Calif. The hearing will explore how clean energy technologies and related industries can create jobs while addressing energy and environmental needs.
Arapahoe County-based Jeppesen has teamed with Ordinate Corp. to provide Aviation English testing that meets the new International Civil Aviation Organization standard for minimum English proficiency for all international flight crews.
Quark Inc., a Denver-based software provider, announced that the company is expanding its operations with a new Silicon Valley office. The office will open in the third quarter in Santa Clara, Calif.
The Boulder-based American Solar Energy Society will receive a $100,000 Recognition Award from American Express for being one of the top five finalists in the Members Project. The competition started with more than 7,000 project ideas to better the world, and American Express Cardmembers voted the “Wind and Solar for Residential” project into third place.
Chipotle Mexican Grill will open a new restaurant Aug. 24 at 5642 Allen Way in Castle Rock.
Foundation and Endowment Money Management, a publication of Institutional Investor, has named the University of Colorado Foundation a finalist for “large nonprofit of the year” in its 2007 Nonprofit Awards for Excellence program.
