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CU Rocket Project students Merle Reisbeck, left, and Russell Nidey look on as a colleague works on a biaxial pointing control. Photo courtesy CU/LASP. Rocket-pointing control was Western Hemisphere’s first major home-grown space technology; author talks about how that CU innovation spawned an aerospace titan How did a company best...

Grace Fleming van Sweringen Baur chaired the University of Colorado Department of Germanic Languages from 1909 to 1930, when her sudden death ended her tireless service. Hoping to immortalize his wife and her legacy, her grieving husband endowed a scholarship in her name. But other events overshadowed the van Sweringen...

In the fall of 1980, Ken Bickers was working in a Washington, D.C., political office. He’d come to the nation’s capital as part of a not-for-profit internship program, and the experience augured his career.

Mom who’s been there sets up scholarship for survivors of childhood cancer Patty Feist recalls with perfect clarity the call, the date, the time and the message that upended her life. It was April 17, 1997, at 10:45 a.m. She was on the job, working as lab coordinator at the...

CU alum Josette Sheeran, the executive director of the U.N. World Food Programme, is on a mission to fight world hunger one cup at a time.

Soon after the tragic 2008 automobile death of Longmont senior Kyle Metcalf and UC Denver freshman Caitlin Epple, much of the Longmont High School community was in shock—including Larkin Poynton, a close friend of both of them. After a while, he and others in the community “took it as something...

Alex McGuiggan had a passion for life, poetry, music, ‘my mountains’ and friends; a new scholarship in his honor aims to keep his memory, and promise, alive

Amid CU-Boulder’s storied progress in leading-edge fields such as biotech and energy, the university’s Classics Department (incorporating the study of ancient Greek and Latin, history, and archaeology) garners fewer headlines—and fewer of the research grants and private gifts that could help the department thrive. Yet while Mary McClanahan (’67, ’69...

Why do older people emerge from, say, hip surgery and an infection with impaired cognitive functions? And what if chronic and enhanced pain could be treated with a single injection of gene therapy? On a recent morning, an auditorium full of older adults mused over those questions. Steven F. Maier...

When Mildred Buck came to the University of Colorado, the roaring ‘20s were yet to crash. A “kindly professor of Greek,” George Norlin, was president, and his words were yet to be carved into the façade of the then-unbuilt library that now bears his name. Since then, pivotal events of...