Fall 2017

The buffalo who became Ralphie I arrived in Boulder in 1966. In 1967, her Folsom Field performances took root in CU culture.

Soon there'll be a degree for that.

A CU professor goes inside America's prisons to study gang life.

Samuel Boyd has a way with languages.

Entrepreneurs are coming out of the woodwork at CU Boulder. It's no accident.

CU football captain Phillip Lindsay enters his senior season as a top-ranked NFL prospect. There's more to the man than that.

Drew Litton has immortalized Ralphie in numerous cartoons over the years. Here's one of his latest, specially commissioned for the Coloradan.

Madalyn Kern's company, ReForm, is developing a low-cost, adjustable prosthetic socket for amputees.

Brian Argrow, the new chair of CU Boulder’s Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences department, talks Mars, drones, integrity and why he always books a window seat.

But maybe you'd like to buy some art?

The 1967 Summer of Love may not have amounted to much at CU, but the ’67 fall semester was another matter.

An 8-year-old asks a CU scientist for the hard truth.

Fraternities, nuclear war and showerhead ecosystems.

All work, extra play.

How Ralphie got her start.

As of August 2017, five individual buffaloes have served as Ralphie, including the incumbent, 11-year-old Blackout. What do you know about each?

Homecoming, alumni tidbits and Roaming Buffs travel.

CU Boulder’s aerospace engineers are preparing to lift off from central campus and land squarely in a burgeoning innovation hub on East Campus.

President Bruce D. Benson's column from the fall 2017 issue.

Sports news from the fall 2017 issue.

Rachel Edson, a 21-year-old senior from Boulder, is one of two women on the 16-member Ralphie Handlers team.

Anne Castle knows better than most that shortages elsewhere in the West can affect Coloradans, even when there’s snow on the slopes.

U.S. Navy Cmdr. Patrick “Critical” Burrus’ ideal classroom is the cockpit, his specialty, making pilots sweat.

Sizing up and relating to people are must-have skills for Boulder County Sheriff Sergeant Vinnie Montez. His sideline as a standup comic also helps.

CU junior Madison Tarbox (Mktg'18) spent the month of July in a rural village outside Kathmandu, Nepal, teaching English, planting and harvesting in the jungle and trekking to the Everest Base Camp.

Actual mascot proposals prior to the Silver & Gold's 1934 national mascot naming contest.

Ralphie I may have looked small when she arrived in Boulder, but she was mighty.