Daily Archives: June 1, 2010

June 2010 Obituaries

Donald J. Brandy (PE’53)

Shoulder to shoulder through eternity.
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You can never be too smart or too thin

Runners line up at the start of the Bolder Boulder, an annual Memorial Day 10k that celebrated its 32nd year in May.

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.
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Saving the Earth since 1970

Integrative physiology major Zong Moua sorts through recyclable materials at CU-Boulder’s Intermediate Processing Facility last summer.

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 center was the first of its kind in the nation and has made CU-Boulder a green leader among U.S. colleges and universities.
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Syllabus spotlight for summer 2010

Paul Gordon, CU-Boulder Humanities

Hitchcock and Freud taught by Humanities professor Paul Gordon.
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Buff standouts saluted

2010 CU-Boulder Alumni Association Award Winners

The Alumni Association celebrated the 80th anniversary of its annual awards ceremony in early May by awarding 22 alumni, faculty, staff and students with six prestigious honors.
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Breadwinner roles still unequally sliced

Working mom

Even as more women slip into suits and head to the office every morning, they face the same piles of unfinished laundry, hungry mouths to feed and stacks of bills when they arrive home at night.
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By the numbers

Numeric details pertinent to tuition, enrollment and average student debt.
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What makes my house so smart?

Photo by Glenn Asakawa

Affectionately known as the “Smart House,” the official chancellor’s residence became the first house in the nation’s “Smart Grid City” in late summer 2008. Xcel Energy outfitted the house at its expense as a living laboratory for “green” living.
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Loss leads to legacy

Michael Hoza

Michael Hoza (Econ ex’87) had been thriving as a CU-Boulder student. He made great friends through his fraternity, was politically engaged on campus and had fallen in love with Colorado, playing hockey, skiing and riding his motorcycle along the Front Range.
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From sea to shining CU

Photo by Glenn Asakawa

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.
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