Summer 2015

Hollywood screenwriter and First Amendment champion Dalton Trumbo died nearly 40 years ago. In 2015 he's making a comeback – and looking a lot like Bryan Cranston.

In February President Obama declared Colorado’s Browns Canyon a national monument. For Bill Dvorak, it was a long time coming.

Oregon’s new leader, Kate Brown, takes charge.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is about to become humanity’s first emissary to Pluto. Alan Stern has the insider view.

CU-Boulder historian Tom Zeiler introduced students to "America through baseball" nearly 15 years ago. They clamored to get in then, and still do.

At CU-Boulder’s Idea Forge, students imagine the future. Then they build it.

Chad Arnold and his team at door to door organics are helping to reinvent grocery shopping for the digital age.

On a cloudless spring day at Folsom Field, the final beam of the Champions Center moves into place during a “topping-off” ceremony.

CU-Boulder philosopher Carol Cleland is helping NASA rethink what life is.

CU-Boulder historian Elizabeth Fenn’s book on plains indians was a decade in the making.

The Colorado Shakespeare Festival, which is playing out its 58th season this summer, is at its finest when the weather cooperates — which doesn’t always mean what you might think it does.

In CU-Boulder visit, Buzz Aldrin says it’s all about Mars.

Summer 2015 campus news briefs.

The University of Colorado Boulder adopted the buffalo as a mascot in 1934, after a national, student-led contest generated more than 1,000 responses.

Running seems to slow the aging process

Working as “popcorn girls” at various Boulder theaters in the late 1970s, sisters Kathy (Engl, PoliSci’86) and Robin Beeck (Comm’88), founders of the Boulder International Film Festival (BIFF), saw lots of movies — good, bad and sleazy.

In mid-July, the New Horizons spacecraft is expected to pass by Pluto, offering humanity its most detailed picture ever of the dwarf planet.

Arizona football is coming to town. So are buffs from all over the country.

Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano discusses student success and what the University is doing to help.

CU-Boulder ski team wins third national title in five years.

Brie Hooks (Soc’17) may be small — 5 feet,1/2 inch — but she’s come up big for CU soccer.

It was from a jeep on a 2008 game drive in Swaziland that Melinda MacInnis (MCreatWrit’97) saw her first wild rhinoceroses, a mother and calf.

District attorney is not a job for the faint of heart. Ask Stan Garnett (Hist’78, Law’82).

The first time Jacqueline Verdier (PolSci’05) saw a selfie stick, last year while visiting a friend in Asia, she laughed.

The University of Colorado Boulder played its first intercollegiate baseball game in the spring of 1890. CU defeated the Colorado School of Mines, 5-4, in Boulder.