Old CU

Campus lore says the first bell cracked following a football victory over Colorado School of Mines in 1926. Others claim it happened during the off-season.

CU distinguished professor Marvin Caruthers helped change the course of global human health.

CU Boulder's largest concert hall began construction in 1909. It was completed in 1922.

CU has had over 85 Olympians. It all started with David Bolen.

During the 1918 flu epidemic, the visiting Student Army Training Corps who lived in the Armory were dispersed into “barracks-like tents” so the building could be used as a hospital.

George Norlin is famous for many things around CU's campus, but you might not know just how much he loved to fish.

Vintage postcards dating as far back as 1911 speak to the Norlin Charge, first read in 1935: "The University consists of all who come into and go forth from her halls, who are thinkg of you touched by her influence and who carry on her spirit."

Fifty years ago, on April 22, 1970, CU Boulder became the first university in the nation to open a student-led Environmental Center. The day coincided with the nation’s inaugural Earth Day.

Most of the buildings on CU’s old quad are named for past CU presidents, faculty, deans and regents. Then there’s Guggenheim.

CU students have performed as varying versions of Chip, CU Boulder’s character buffalo mascot, since the 1980s.