Undergraduate student Cristal Alvarado is the 2023-24 winner of the University Libraries Buffs One Read Storytelling Contest. The contest invited CU Boulder undergraduate students to submit creative expressions based on this year’s Buffs One Read selection, The Book of Joy: The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, with Douglas Abrams. Alvarado’s entry, entitled “There's Always More to Life Than We May Think,” unveils a difficult time in her life, when she had just dropped out of college. Read more...