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The Campus
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University of Colorado System
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| CU-Boulder graduate students worked with
Professor James Dixon, curator of the museum and field studies
program at the University Museum in 2002, to excavate the
10,000-year-old skull and tusks of a mammoth at a site south
of Denver. As part of the class the students wrote proposals
for a museum planned at the site. |
The Campus
- Was founded in 1876 at Boulder, at the base of the Rocky
Mountains.
- Includes about 200 classic rural Italian-style buildings
and complexes built of Colorado sandstone with red tile roofs.
- Includes 786 acres on the Main Campus, East Campus (including
the Research Park), Williams Village and the Mountain Research
Station north of Nederland. In 1996 the Board of Regents concluded
the purchase of 308 acres of land in unincorporated Boulder
County, which has been reserved for long-term future development.
- Was ranked fourth in a review of the 50 "most architecturally
successful campuses in the country," in The Campus as a Work
of Art by Thomas Gaines.
- Received more than $229 million in sponsored research awards
for the 2002 fiscal year, setting another campus record for
sponsored research. The National Science Foundation provided
the most award dollars to the campus-nearly $46 million-followed
by NASA and its affiliates at slightly more than $44 million.
- Has 15 alumni who have become astronauts in NASA's space
program.
- Offers 3,400 courses in about 150 fields of study.
- Offers approximately 85 majors at the bachelor's level, 70
at the master's level and 50 at the doctoral level.
- Has nearly 100 research centers, institutes and laboratories
analyzing everything from the impact of natural disasters to
the effect of warming temperatures on Antarctic ice shelves.
A complete list is available on the Web at www.colorado.edu/research/.
- Includes the CU Research Park with several tenants. Among
them: V-Span Inc.; Quantum Corp.; BEA Systems; Qwest; and CDM
Optics.
- Is one of the largest employers in Boulder County, providing
more than 7,200 full-time and part-time jobs in 2001-02, excluding
student employees.
- Is one of 34 U.S. public research universities invited to
join the prestigious Association of American Universities.
- Is the first established campus of the four-campus University
of Colorado system, also including:
- University of Colorado at Denver
- University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
- University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (Denver)
- Includes nine colleges and schools:
Colleges
College of Architecture and Planning
Dean Patricia O'Leary (Boulder campus has undergraduate
degree program only.)
College of Arts and Sciences
Dean Todd Gleeson
Leeds School of Business
Dean Steven Manaster
College of Engineering and Applied Science
Dean Robert H. Davis
College of Music
Dean Daniel Sher
Schools
Graduate School
Dean Carol Lynch
School of Education
Dean Lorrie Shepard
School of Journalism and Mass Communication Interim
Dean Stewart Hoover
School of Law
Dean Harold Bruff
| CU-Boulder and Lockheed Martin Space
Systems teamed up with NEWS4, Denver’s CBS affiliate,
in October 2002 to produce the science-centered education
program “Cosmos 4 KIDS.” The one-week program
was geared to third- through fifth-graders, and explored
the wonders of space, from the big-bang theory to the future
of space exploration. |
Night and summer courses
Division of Continuing Education
Dean Anne Heinz
Summer Session
Director Carol Mehls
Libraries
Dean James Williams
- Has the largest library collection in the Rocky Mountain
region:
- More than 11 million books, periodicals, government publications,
special and archival collections, audiovisual and other
materials are available in Norlin Library and the Business,
Earth Sciences, Engineering, Math/Physics and Music libraries.
- Norlin Library is affiliated with the best university
libraries in the country and is a member of the Colorado
Alliance of Research Libraries, the Greater Western Library
Alliance, the Association of Research Libraries, the Center
for Research Libraries and other associations.
- Chinook on the Web at www-libraries.colorado.edu provides
access to the university's collection, the holdings of
most Colorado libraries and many library systems nationwide,
and to periodical and information databases.
Athletics
Intercollegiate Sports
- Basketball, cross country, golf, track and field, skiing
and tennis for men and women, volleyball and soccer for women,
football for men.
Student Recreation Center
- The Student Recreation Center offers a 2,000-square-foot
indoor rock climbing gym, three pools and a diving well, an
ice arena, two large general purpose gymnasiums with basketball
courts, a free-weight room and a fitness machine weight room,
an indoor track, tennis courts, martial arts and dance studios,
seven racquetball/handball courts, a large sports and recreational
equipment rental department and complete sauna and shower facilities.
Club Sports
- Offer thirty-five sports ranging from rugby to figure skating.
For information call (303) 492-5274.
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