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After you met them, you never forgot them.

University of Colorado President Bruce Benson has announced plans to retire next summer. Here he looks ahead.

CU Boulder people produce interesting stuff. New stuff. Fun stuff. Mind-bending stuff. Atomic clocks. Storm-chasing drones. Gloves that turn tabletops into pianos. The university is also a repository for arresting old stuff. A Glenn Miller (A&S ex’26; HonDocHum’84) gold record. Apple computers from 1978. NASA spacesuits. Dinosaur bones. The university’s...

I wouldn’t have gotten to know Frank Oppenheimer if I hadn’t crashed the Conference on World Affairs (CWA) party at his house.

CU Boulder Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano discusses the CU Boulder Next program.

In Boulder this spring there was fresh talk of bears: Observers noted their curiosity about life east of Broadway, prompting questions about how to ensure harmony among their species and ours. Perhaps, some say, bear-safe trash cans, required west of Broadway, would be wise east of it, too. As far...

There was a time when I lived a few blocks down the street from an art museum with no entrance fee.

It was the worst Hill riot ever.

I was a student at CU when I attended my first Conference on World Affairs.

CU architecture student Bob White was sitting in his red 1962 4x4 Chevy truck in Circle, Alaska, out of money, food, gas and options.