Achievement

Two workshops were offered this year as part of the trainee integral development activities. The title of the first workshop, offered in August 2011, was: Communicating for Results: Listening and Speaking with Maximum Impact, and the instructor was Harrison Monarth, Founder of GuruMaker – School of Professional Speaking, and New York Times Bestselling Author. The topic of this workshop was chosen following input from the company representatives participating in the 1st COSI-IGERT Industrial Advisory Board meeting. The second workshop, offered in May 2012, was 'Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer', specially organized for the COSI-IGERT by the Technology Transfer Office (TTO) of the University of Colorado. The workshop featured specialists from the TTO, as well as a patent lawyer and a faculty entrepreneur.