The Four Mile Canyon fire was clearly visible from Koenig Alumni Center. We could see and hear the slurry bombers shuttling back and forth from Denver.
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If anybody asks, my best advice is that regardless of where you live, if at all possible get involved or involved again with CU. Our lives are richer for it.
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The Boulder County wildfire is northwest of the city of Boulder and does not represent a threat to the University of Colorado campus or the central city of Boulder. Classes and all university activities will proceed along a normal schedule on Tuesday.
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The outreach coordinator will increase awareness and visibility of the Heritage Center, the CU history museum, through written materials and programs, will do historical research, will research and write grants and will have regular museum duties.
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There are two broadcast sites to catch the exciting first game of the CU football season vs. Colorado State this Saturday, Sept. 4! They are DirecTV channel 616 and American carriers of the Mountain West Network (CH. 411 on Comcast in Denver/Boulder for example).
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Colorado’s favorite buffalo received national attention when Fox Sports named Ralphie the coolest college football mascot on Sept. 1. The stampeding bison beat out other recognizable and popular contenders such as Mike the Tiger of Louisiana State University, Uga the Bulldog of the University of Georgia and Bevo the Longhorn of the University of Texas.
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David Getches, dean of the Law School at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has announced that he intends to resign as dean effective June 2011.
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Hillary Fritz (Engl’78) will share advice and tips about how to get your foot in the door, how to make contacts in the industry and how to find internships and a job. She’ll also talk about the various jobs attainable in fashion: design, merchandising, buying, branding, sales, marketing, account management and so on.
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On Wednesday, Aug. 25, the University of Colorado at Boulder announced the formation of an exploratory committee to consider the structure and organization of a new interdisciplinary academic program of information and communication technology.
Glenn Porzak, an experienced climber, fell between 60 and 70 feet when the rock he was scrambling down near Little Pawnee Peak gave way. The accident occurred in the Indians Peaks Wilderness Area near Brainard Lake. Porzak suffered a broken pelvis, nine broken ribs and ‘lots of lacerations’ but is now stable and recovering in a Denver hospital.
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A veritable herd of new freshmen filled Folsom Field for the 2010 convocation ceremony.
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“I’m excited . . . it’s something I’ve worked long and hard for,” said Hansen, who started the final seven games of 2009 after supplanting Hawkins in early October.
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A planned $110 million telescope in Chile that the University of Colorado at Boulder is partnering on to probe distant galaxies and stellar nurseries has been named as the top construction priority for mid-sized, ground-based telescopes by the National Research Council in the coming decade.
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By Patricia Bianco (MThtr’65) I was a residence adviser for students living on the side of Sewall Hall in 1962-63. My little “apartment” was just off the huge living room. Sewall was an upper-class women’s residence hall. We called it Menopause Manor. The women and I obeyed most of the rules and had wonderful times together. Sewall had beautiful furniture.
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Please join us in welcoming our new Alumni Association Executive Director, Deborah Fowlkes. Deborah formerly served as assistant vice president for alumni relations and executive director of the Temple University Alumni Association in Philadelphia, PA, a post she held since 2005.
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Single Game Tickets: Buy your 2010 CU football single game tickets now!. For all home games, Alumni Association tickets are located in section 215. For all away games, tickets are located in the visitors section.
Anthropology professor Payson Sheets, in the middle with his arm raised, took Forever Buffs t-shirts to his excavation site at El Ceren, El Salvador last month. Ceren is a well-preserved ancient Maya village that was buried by deep volcanic ash 1,400 years ago. Payson discovered it in 1976.
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After two and a half years as interim executive director of the Alumni Association, Ron Stump will retire in mid-August. Prior, he worked in the office of student affairs, most recently as vice chancellor for student affairs, for 12 years. In the photo he shows off his classic hand gestures at a party thrown by the alumni staff for him in July. Staff person, Eva Kruger who organizes senior auditors registration, is at right.
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A new CU-led study shows the Arctic climate system may be more sensitive to greenhouse warming than previously thought, and that current levels of Earth’s atmospheric carbon dioxide may be high enough to bring about significant, irreversible shifts in Arctic ecosystems.
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For those of you who have bought the 2010-11 Alumni Association wall calendar or those of you who are Lifetime Members and will receive it for free, the calendar will be mailed Monday, July 26. Please check your mailboxes in the next week – they’re on the way!
Shervin Rahimpour’s family, which follows the Baha’i faith, fled religious persecution in Iran when he was 5 years old. He and his sisters could not have pursued higher education in Iran. In the United States, the Rahimpours were free to learn. Though finances could be a “tremendous obstacle,” he found financial help.
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By Finn Thye (Psych’01, MLing’09) A bottle rocket launched in my mind the night I first thought of going to learn Arapaho by living with an elder on the Wind River Reservation in central western Wyoming. I lay there thinking about how it would be to visit the old heart of our continent, experiencing a different side of the culture
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Drag, beaming with the glow of the newly hired, hails Click from across the hardware store to regale him about his adventures in finding a new job as a farrier. His adventure follows a new path where pounding on the keyboard is more successful than pounding the bricks in the job hunt.
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A reunion of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity May 21-22 in Denver, Boulder, Nederland and Black Hawk drew 70 members and spouses from across the country.
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Buff football season tickets are now available. The Buffs will be playing the following home games: Colorado State (at Invesco Field in Denver Sept. 4), Hawai’i (Sept. 18), Georgia (Oct. 2), Baylor (Oct. 16, Family Weekend), Texas Tech (Oct. 23, Homecoming), Iowa State (Nov. 13) and Kansas State (Nov. 20). Season tickets start at $235. Go here to order tickets online or call 303-49-BUFFS.
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After CU accepted its offer of membership, the Pac-10 conference returned to the Rockies this week and recruited the University of Utah to become its 12th member after the Texas and Oklahoma members of the Big 12, lead by powerhouse University of Texas, spurned membership in the powerful West Coast-based conference.
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The CU Board of Regents voted unanimously Friday, June 11, to approve the momentous move by CU from the Big 12 athletic conference to the Pac-10. During the press statements by top officials that followed outside the club level at Folsom Field, the chair of the Rosebowl Management Committee (in photo) handed out roses to the officials, who are, from left, Steve Bosley (Bus’68, HonDoc’03), regent chair; Larry Scott, Pac-10 Commissioner; Mike Bohn, CU athletic director; Bruce Benson (Geol’64, HonDoc’04) CU president; and Philip P. DiStefano, CU-Boulder chancellor.
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The Pac-10 Conference announced today, June 10, that the University of Colorado at Boulder has accepted an invitation to join the Conference as its 11th member, the first new member since July 1, 1978. “On behalf of the University of Colorado students, faculty, alumni and fans, we are proud to accept this invitation from the Pac-10 and join the most prestigious academic and athletic conference in the nation,” says CU-Boulder Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano. The official announcement of the dramatic change in CU athletics takes place Friday, June 11, 2010 at 11 a.m. MDT on the club level at Folsom Field in Boulder. Watch the press conference live.
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“Where to next?” my family and friends asked me after I returned home in April 2008 from a four-month stay among the cloud forests of Monteverde , Costa Rica. “I don’t know, maybe Antarctica is next on the list?” I would sarcastically answer.
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Regarding the open space article in the December 2009 Coloradan, I was an undergraduate physics student of professor Al Bartlett in 1982-83. I see he still wears his trademark bolo tie. I don’t recall being aware of his involvement with open space, but on a related issue, exponential population growth, his remarks on the topic carry with me to this day.
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A letter to the editor responding to the article in the March 2010 Coloradan about Howard Higman (Art’31, MSoc’42)
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Our spectacular wall calendar with CU-Boulder scenes is back and better than before. For $12.49, you can purchase a calendar and enjoy the beauty and spirit of the Boulder campus from August 2010 to July 2011. Purchase your calendar here.
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The University of Colorado at Boulder today announced that Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement Sallye McKee has resigned from her position and will leave the university for personal and family reasons. The move is effective June 30. CU-Boulder Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano will appoint an interim successor to McKee in the coming days. “I want to thank
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Sixty engineers, entrepreneurs and financiers were sipping yerba mate tea at a coffee shop down the street from a bong-and-lingerie store on a recent sunny Tuesday in Boulder, and discussing how Boulder — usually seen as an enclave of hippies, marijuana dispensaries and rock climbers — has become a hotbed of capitalism.
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NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis will make its final flight May 14 carrying three University of Colorado at Boulder-built biomedical payload devices, including one to help scientists understand how and why slimy and troublesome clumps of microorganisms flourish in the low-gravity conditions of space.
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“Hey Tom, you’re an engineer. Come over and talk to this lady. She wants to bring clean water to a village in Madagascar,” my friend Steph Cohen Stoddard (EnvCon’96) said as I ambled down the Pearl Street Mall.
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Come see some great lacrosse and cheer on your Buffs at the Men’s Collegiate Lacrosse Association Championship Tournament! Runs from May 11-15 at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, with special alumni discount for the Championship Games on May 15! Tickets available here GO BUFFS!
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Former University of Colorado cross country and track and field standouts Adam Goucher, Shayne Culpepper and Danny Reese were inducted into the Colorado Running Hall of Fame on Tuesday night at the Denver Athletic Club.
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So what do you remember about your commencement? Sunny and 70 degrees? Or a foot of snow? This Friday CU-Boulder will confer 5,825 degrees under what is projected to be cloudy, slightly chilly skies ― 4,530 bachelor’s degrees, 850 master’s degrees, 175 law degrees and 270 doctoral degrees. John Wood (Fin’86), founder of the international nonprofit organization “Room to Read,” gave the commencement address. Tell us your commencement memory and will appear here on our CU Memories site. If you have a photo, send it along!
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