venture

Alum's startup, already hailed as innovative, is acquired by POLITICO Europe

July 20, 2018

Keaton Brown, who graduated from CU Boulder in May of 2018, majored in Economics and Political Science while developing the startup.

dog

Cancer in canine companions may suggest human cancer, depending on where you are

June 5, 2018

Recent advances in veterinary research have suggested that if your dog has cancer, it’s possible you might, too, thanks to toxins in your shared environment. But that research might not tell the whole story, according to new findings.

Bollig

Car crash helps grad make moral case for religious inclusion

May 8, 2018

Toby Bollig, the spring 2018 outstanding graduate in the College of Arts and Sciences, took up accessibility in religious institutions after a serious car crash left him with a brain injury that made attending church "miserable."

meininger

Physician’s gratitude, desire to help is bone deep

April 25, 2018

One visit to a hospital operating room was all it took for Alex Meininger to choose a career path.

bella

The art of the socket

Jan. 23, 2018

When an 11-year-old llama named Bella broke her right hind leg in a gopher hole in 2010, her owners, Chuck Robuck and Trish Brandt-Robuck of Newcastle, Calif., chose to amputate rather than euthanize her.

Yusur

Kuwaiti citizen, English grad wins top alumni prize

Oct. 20, 2017

Yusur Al-Madani will return to Boulder on Oct. 26 to receive CU Boulder’s George Norlin Award, which “recognizes outstanding alumni who have demonstrated a commitment to excellence in their chosen field of endeavor and a devotion to the betterment of society and their community.”

Flats

Filmmaker alums tackle nuclear weapons buildup

Oct. 19, 2017

The nuclear weapons buildup and the protests against it were for many simply the news of the day, but for two filmmakers from the University of Colorado Boulder it may turn out to be a provocative theme for a historical documentary and multimedia oral-history archive.

math

The late Jack Hyatt continues his CU legacy with math endowment

Aug. 7, 2017

Believing that CU Boulder had helped lay the foundation of his success, Jack Hyatt supported the university for nearly five decades. Following his death, that legacy continues with bequests to the law school and the College of Arts and Sciences.

Dan Sawyer

Local entrepreneur tackles athletic turf field safety, proving there’s more beneath the surface

July 14, 2017

Dan Sawyer (history '88) is taking an ecological and humanities-minded approach to guarding the well-being of professional, student and recreational athletes, alike.

Kreps

Humanitarian, lifelong student of people, politics memorialized in scholarship

Feb. 27, 2017

Political science is the degree that Kreps earned from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1993. And it’s for that interest which Kreps, who passed away last April at the age of 45, is memorialized in the newly renovated Ketchum Arts and Sciences Building.

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