Earthquake-prone cities like Kathmandu in Nepal, Japan’s Tokyo and Turkey’s Istanbul, have fast-growing populations that could suffer devastating damage when a large earthquake hits.
While walking to art class at Boulder in 1937, Willis Pyle saw a poster from the Walt Disney studio seeking animators for his fledgling operation in Hollywood. Pyle decided to mail his best work to Southern California.
A couple of years ago a Forbes magazine survey concluded that Boulder was the smartest city in the country. Now comes word from the Gallup Poll that Boulder is the second thinnest.
Forty years ago, before alternative energy was lucrative and being green was the cool thing to do, CU students founded the Environmental Center on Earth Day in 1970.
The CU Boulder Alumni Association announced 22 outstanding members of the university community who were recognized at a ceremony on campus Wednesday, May 5.
Sophomore Emily Talley finished fifth in the Big 12 Women’s Golf Championships, tying for the second-best Big 12 showing ever by a CU female golfer. The only better performance by a Buff was a fourth place by Sarah Bellinger Woods in 1999.
After winning seven of its first 10 dual matches of the season, the CU tennis team struggled during the Big 12 portion of the year. The Buffs went 3-8 in head-to-head matches with conference opponents during the regular season.
Junior-to-be Tyler Hansen was listed ahead of senior Cody Hawkins on the quarterback depth chart the day of the spring game in April, but the battle for the starting QB job will be carried into the summer.
Alums have been finding exciting new ways to support students since the Alumni Association discontinued its membership dues program and welcomed all alumni and students as members under the Forever Buffs initiative.
Before vice chancellor of student affairs Julie Wong arrived two years ago, she was preparing to travel the world on Semester at Sea. Today she oversees a multitude of departments from Wardenburg Health Center to the Alumni Association.
When Randy George and Jim Yost met in Boulder during the late 1960s, they had no idea they’d end up running a guest ranch together in western Grand County, Colo.
Thirty years after he went on a photographic journey to the Cambodia of “The Killing Fields,” Jay Mather returned to the country in 2009 to see what had changed.
