The Great Recession of 2007-10: Causes, Consequences and Cures was the topic of the two-day Alumni College held earlier this month at the CU Law School.
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At the end of the first day (June 13) of the annual Ride the Rockies bike ride Ben (ElEngr’04) and Kelly Merkel (Hist’04) were temporarily exhausted and cold, as they had been riding through hail.
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Elizabeth Waldrop Wagner (Hist,Ital’01) of Santa Barbara, Calif., hosted a reunion in Boulder for some 15 alums and spouses over Memorial Day weekend. They shared laughs and memories, toured campus with Jake the great one-armed guide (bike accident) and participated in the Bolder Boulder.
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Jane Beard (Hist’63) of Dallas sent this photo of her recent tour of southern Colorado with Virginia Tandler “Wink” Brace (Edu’63) of Centennial, Colo. Their explorations included the Durango & Silverton Railroad (in the photo) and Mesa Verde and Great Sand Dunes national parks.
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Kramer the cat only has eyes for CU this summer. The Alumni Association is eyeing a variety of events for you to enjoy. Walk on over to our Events page and get into the action! Don’t be left clawing for something to do or end up with a calendar littered with boring activities. The Alumni Association is in your eye year-round! (Kramer is taken care of by Alumni staff person Diane Georgia.)
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Our chapters continue to make us proud! Wade Hendricks (Mus’02), president of the Boston Chapter, organized a community service event on Sunday, May 15 to help clean up the banks of the Charles River. Over 20 CU alums participated in this great event, along with about 200 alumni from other universities across the country, none larger than the CU contingent.
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Sara Crepinsek (EnvSt’10) sent us this photo of her family, taken after she graduated on May 7. They are arrayed on the spiral staircases on the south side of Old Main.
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The CU campus echoed to the sound of bagpipes as Pipe Major Don McKee led the Fort Collins Pipe Band through the campus at the head of the commencement procession.
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CU-Boulder alumni Zuhair Fayez (EnvDes’71, MS’71) was awarded an honorary doctorate during CU’s 2010 commencement. Before coming to CU he had never seen a snowflake. During his time at CU he played soccer and appeared in the Coloradan yearbook.
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Students at the University of Colorado at Boulder show their colors during commencement. CU-Boulder conferred 5,825 degrees under cloudy, 37-degree 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.
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The annual Lavender Graduation, celebrates GLBT graduating students and provides a festive venue to award scholarships and honor members of the GLBT community. Pictured are organizers Kevin Correa and Steph Wilenchek, respectively assistant director and director of the CU-Boulder GLBT Resource Center.
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This is a statue calling people on campus to participate in the 2010 Take Back the Night event. Sponsored by Sigma Psi Zeta sorority, event organizers said it challenges people to break the silence surrounding sexual violence and join the fight to “Take Back the Night” from violence against women.
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The Latin Student Alliance celebrated their annual “Sabor” (meaning flavor or taste in Spanish) event on the Norlin Quad Thursday, April 21. There featured live music as well as Aztec dancers, plus various dishes from countries such as Mexico, El Salvador and Peru.
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According to Adele Conover (Law’00), a bunch of CU students attending the CU vs. Florida State game two years ago in Jacksonville ran into these three students boasting major black and gold. She says, “The place was SWAMPED with Seminoles, and when we all ran into each other, we just HAD to take a picture! So much fun!”
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The new Institute for Behavioral Sciences building is nearing completion at Grandview and 14th. The structural framework is completed and the wall systems are almost ready to begin interior drywall installation. IBS includes faculty from 10 university departments and has doubled its grants within the last 10 years from $20 million to over $40 million.
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Colonel Isaiah “Ike” Wilson delivers the keynote for the Conference on World Affairs – “Rethinking American Power” April 5 in Macky Auditorium.
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As the CEO of Counterpart International, a nonprofit working in international development, Virginia resident Stephanie Wagor Meeks (Engl’87) visited Counterpart’s project sites in Senegal.
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Steve Underwood (Psych’77) wrote to tell us that his father, Willis Underwood, played trombone around 1934 with the Varsity Rhythm Boys band. That’s the year he replaced Glenn Miller (A&S ex’26) in the band and that he was class president.
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Just a week ago there was two feet of snow on the ground! The entire campus was frosted with a thick layer of the white stuff. True to the adage: ‘if you don’t like Boulder weather, wait five minutes’ the sun came out and got right to work melting it away. By friday that week it was in the high 50′s and sunny.
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Nearly two feet of snow blanketed the foothills near Boulder, giving the Flatirons a lovely frosting. Campus is very quiet while the students are away on spring break. The heavy snow had facilities crews working all day trimming and collecting downed branches from the many trees on campus.
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The new Institute for Behavioral Science building is under construction at Grandview and 14th Street in the northwest corner of campus. IBS includes faculty from 10 university departments and has doubled its grants within the last 10 years from $20 million to over $40 million.
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This group of soldiers sends word from Iraq that residents of Colorado (and Buffs!) stick together!
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The Boulder Emergency Squad was on campus at the St. Baldrick’s Day childhood cancer fundraiser. They raised $1,700.
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Ron Geschwer (Psych’01), executive vice president of the NYC alumni chapter, organized for the second year in a row a weekend ski trip to Killington Resort in Killington, Vermont, where this photo was taken. There was a great turnout.
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Tomas van Houtryve (Jour’99) a freelance photojournalist based in Paris and working for Time, Newsweek, Stern and many other international publications, has added to his impressive list of awards by winning Photographer of the Year in the freelance/agency category of Pictures of the Year International, an extremely prestigious annual contest.
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A recent “incredibly interesting expedition to explore the Nile River” led to this photo of Jane Kokernot Beard (Hist’63) showing her Buff spirit at the Blue Nile Falls in Ethiopia. The trip ranged from the Blue and White Nile’s sources in Uganda and Ethiopia to their confluence at Khartoum, Sudan, to the mouth in the Egyptian delta.
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This is the Center for Community under construction, the massive building just east of Regent Hall. It will house most CU-Boulder student services and a cutting edge dining center, the largest on campus (serving 900 people) when it opens in time for the fall 2010 semester. The $84.4 million student center will be a dream come true for the student services, which have been waiting for years to move into a physical space that more suitably supports their missions.
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Students began taking classes in art and art history in the brand new Visual Arts Complex last month. Construction of the CU Art Museum within the complex is still underway; the museum is scheduled to open in March. The Complex replaced the Sibell Wolle Fine Arts Building, demolished in 2008 after 90 years as the premier home of art on campus.
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Celebrating what Nancy Millward (IntlAf’99) calls “the power of the CU culture,” she and her husband, Sam Millward (Bus’97, MTelecom’00) were in Chile recently to visit CU senior writing instructorAnne Bliss (MLing’88, PhDEdu’93) in the southern city of Talca.
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A young man practices the fine art of slacklining on the Norlin Quad in front of Old Main on a relatively brisk winter day. Slacklining is a balance sport performed on rope or other line stretched tight between two anchor points.
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In the middle of their continent hopping of the last year plus Christine Zimmerman (Ger’80, MEdu’90) snapped a photo of former alumni director Kent Zimmerman (Edu’80, MPubAd’90) showing off the most recent Coloradan they had seen. They’re in Tangier, Morocco, which Kent describes as “One of the most different places we’ve been on this adventure.”
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The Institute for Behavioral Sciences’ new home in the Grandview neighborhood north of campus is coming right along. It will consolidate institute offices currently located in a number of Craftsman-style cottages in the same neighborhood.
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