Summer 2017

Will Americans eat insects? Dave Baugh and twin brother Lars are betting on it.

CU astronomer Doug Duncan has some advice about this summer's total eclipse: Don't miss it.

Teenagers and young adults think and act differently from grownups. CU scientist Marie Banich is helping us see why.

In Bruce Lee, CU's Daryl Maeda sees a symbol of the modern world — and the subject of his next book.

All you need are Kristof Klipfel's musical gloves.

Two CU Boulder scholars, one named Zax, find value in having a last name that starts near A.

For years, the Taliban banned music in Afghanistan. Now the country has its first all-female orchestra — and Allegra Boggess to thank.

Wildfires burned about 2 million acres in the United States in the early months of 2017.

The Conference on World Affairs brought thousands of people to campus April 10-14 for nearly 200 talks, panels and performances, including an improv aerial dance featuring Lena Gutschank.

Women represent more than half of all new U.S. college graduates but receive fewer than 20 percent of computer and information science degrees. Former Bell Labs executive Lucy Sanders is trying to fix that.

Wildfires can happen naturally — but in the U.S., humans start most of them

The Summer of Love — 1967, in case you’ve forgotten, or weren’t born yet — happened on Hippie Standard Time (HST).

CU Boulder scientists show the way to a sub-2-hour finish

Heartbreak placebos, prison gangs, New Venture Challenge and CU in 1967

At commencement 2017, Friday, May 12, the university conferred nearly 6,300 degrees on more than 4,600 undergraduates and 1,600 graduate and professional students.

Wiley B. Rutledge, the first CU Boulder graduate to serve on the nation’s highest court, joined in 1943.

American adults don’t sleep enough: On the average work night, we come up 30-90 minutes short of what our bodies need for long-term health, according to a poll by the National Sleep Foundation.

A Buff senior and a former student found themselves paired on reality TV — and in the hunt for $1 million

Homecoming Weekend, Roaming Buffs and the new CU wine program

The innovation university

In third varsity season, CU women go 15-2, undefeated at home

NFL draft and Skiing Championships

Ryan Davis of Sugar Land, Texas, has skippered the resurrection of CU’s dormant sailing club.

Long before Tom Shepherd began moving tons of fresh berries around the world, he moved a single football from Boulder to Lincoln, Neb. — by bicycle, in the snow, wearing jeans.

Marjane Ambler learned to share the road with bison. That’s what you do when you live in Yellowstone National Park.

It was the nights that most unnerved Dan Mackin.

Celebration at Commencement 2017

Life at CU Boulder shifts gears after commencement but hardly goes dormant.