While nutrition facts printed on food labels are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration, companies can present smaller serving sizes on nutrition labels, so a food’s negative nutrients — calories and fat — show up as a lower number per serving, says business professor Donald Lichtenstein.
Graduates of 1962 embraced the challenges, and today they have much to offer the graduates of 2012.
A summer day on campus is framed by the Center for Community building, which opened in 2010 and houses student services, a coffee shop, grab-and-go food services and a 900-seat dining hall. It received a LEED platinum rating in April — the highest possible designation — from the United States Green Building Council.
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Back pats and brickbats, you’ll find them here as our outspoken Forever Buffs speak out.
Chris Ryan (Geog, Soc’97) captured these boys playing in Durbar Square in Katmandu, Nepal, in April 2002.
Remember your first “only in Boulder” moment?
To the Bearers of the Torch who are now part of her Spirit, the University pays homage.
Forever Buffs!
Rappelling into a flooded canyon in Utah’s Zion National Park, photographer Jeff Diener (EPOBio’92) was sweating in his wetsuit in the 100-degree heat. Yet on his fourth rappel deep into the canyon, all was forgotten when a cathedral of glowing sandstone appeared 70 feet below. He immediately set up his gear and began shooting photographs.
Richard Pattenaude (PhDPolSci’74) may be chancellor of the University of Maine System, but his first love is teaching — teaching political science, to be more precise. But he almost became an economist.
Joel Bloom’s (Span’00) predicament was this: fresh out of college, degree in hand and a career path that was wide open. “If there’s one question I remember above anything else, it was people always asking me what I planned to do with a B.A. in Spanish,” he says. “My answer was always the same, ‘I don’t know. I’m majoring in Spanish because it’s the only field of study I truly love.’ ”
Art professor emeritus Ron M. Bernier died Jan. 25, 2012, as a result of complications arising from multiple sclerosis. He leaves behind hundreds of former students who spent their CU education trying to get into any and all of Ron’s art history classes.
All the news we’ve heard from the herd lately. Keep us posted with your class notes.
“Sometimes playing in the dirt is learning about the dirt, too,” Rahmani says. “It’s about getting students to make connections between their lives and the world around them in a scientific manner.”
This summer, The Astronauts will be one of three famous CU-based 1960s-era bands inducted into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame, alongside the down-and-dirty greasers of Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids, aka Flash Cadillac, and the hippy popsters of Sugarloaf.
In her first column for ESPN-W, the up-and-coming women’s website for the sports-media giant, Kate Fagan (Comm’03) chose to remember her most significant moment as a Colorado basketball player.
Digits, digits, digits. Here’s all the ones that matter when it comes to CU sports.
The 2011-12 season was one to remember for the CU women’s golf team. By the end of April the Buffs had won three team titles for the first time and made history by recording back-to-back victories. For much of the spring they were ranked just outside the top 10 in the nation before finishing fourth at the NCAA West Regional.
In what was supposed to be a rebuilding season, the CU men’s basketball team lowered the boom on many an unsuspecting opponent.
Celebrate summer by taking some time for yourself and reading a book. To assist in compiling your summer reading list, a handful of professors and alumni who have been featured in the Coloradan during the past year have shared their favorite books.
Ideally, spring practices are supposed to resolve many issues for a college football team. But for CU, the spring produced almost as many questions as answers.
Ann Elliott made history March 26 when she became head coach for the new CU women’s lacrosse program, which begins play in spring semester 2014. She comes to CU after being a player and assistant coach at perennial lacrosse powerhouse Northwestern University, winner of six NCAA titles between .
Four great CU professors join other world-class speakers to address a wide range of topics while we’re at sea, including spaceflight, astronomy, science fiction and the Mayan calendar. The trip starts in Miami before reaching an appropriate destination with a visit to the Mayan ruins in Tulum, Mexico, the day some believe the Mayan calendar predicts the end of the world.
The Alumni Association has more than 16,000 Forever Buffs in our LinkedIn account. Don’t get left out. Make valuable professional connections on the Alumni Association’s social channels.
The gem-encrusted Presidential Chain of Office is worn by the university president during commencement ceremonies. Designed by Mary Sartor (A&S’67, MFA’71), the chain is composed of minerals and gemstones from the state of Colorado — gold, silver, diamonds, citrine, topaz and amethyst.
Eight years ago, Gregg Treinish (Soc’02) was struggling up a rocky path in Pennsylvania along the Appalachian Trail when he had an epiphany that would shape his future.
It’s time to get Flatiron fever and return to campus for three action-packed days during Back to Boulder Weekend Nov. 1-3, which also is Homecoming. In addition to the Buffs playing Stanford on Saturday, Nov. 3, we have tons of activities to make your weekend the best one of the fall.
Hit the road with us this fall to cheer on the Buffs as they travel to Arizona, Washington, California and Oregon. Our spectacular away-game festivities are the place to be before every away Pac-12 game.
Campus officials took the extraordinary measure of closing campus to unauthorized visitors and showered fishy-smelling fertilizer on the Norlin Quad before closing it off with police tape.
The factory for Nobel Prize winners on campus grew by 56,000 square feet in spring.
