Campus News

<p>CU-Boulder will play a crucial role in NASA’s future explorations of the moon, thanks to two NASA grants totaling $11 million in early January.</p>

Numbers and statistics about CU Boulder from the spring 2009 issue.

<p>With severe state budget cuts looming, CU President Bruce Benson and other frustrated higher education leaders are asking lawmakers for the flexibility to raise tuition as they feel necessary.</p>

<p>They’re in company with this year’s Grammy nominees Coldplay and Radiohead. CU Boulder’s resident string quartet, the <a href="http://www.takacsquartet.com/">Takács Quartet</a> was nominated for a Grammy this year in the category of best chamber music performance.</p>

<p>Mike West, director of education for CU Biodiesel, has taught everyone from postgraduate students to second-graders how to brew their own biodiesel, showing how simple it is to create cleaner, more sustainable fuel from waste.</p>

<p>Developing sensing and imaging systems in everything from cars to medical equipment may be lines of work for future alumni of CU’s new graduate program in computational optical sensing and imaging.</p>

<p>In November Colorado voters elected two first-generation Americans — also among the youngest ever elected — to serve on the CU Board of Regents, making it the most diverse board ever. </p>

<p>After spending his life making maps of Colorado’s Front Range, professor emeritus William Braddock now appears in them.</p>

<p>From iPods and Crocs to coffee mugs, it seems everything’s about customizing to your own taste, and junior Jesse Saba has brought this trend to CU classrooms.</p>

<p>Representing Vietnamese, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, African American, Mexican American and Taiwanese backgrounds, CU’s newest multicultural sorority celebrated its chapter’s emergence on the Boulder campus last fall.</p>