Whiteout
Ethan Welty, a doctoral student in environmental studies at CU-Boulder, took this shot of Kevin Steffa walking across the Sulphide Glacier below the summit of Mount Shuksan on Sept. 2 in Washington’s North Cascades.
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Center spread – September 2012 Campus Aerial Fall
Towering over the campus and Boulder are five major Flatirons named after the flat, metal irons used by pioneer women to press their clothes.
Travel with the Roaming Buffs
On an extraordinary safari with the Roaming Buffs you will enjoy spectacular wildlife viewing in Kenya and Tanzania. Travel from grassland plains to the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro, from the world’s largest volcanic crater to the edge of the Rift Valley, enjoying game drives and up-close encounters.
Volume 17, Number 1 September 2012
Coloradan aims to connect, inform and engage readers in the life of the University of Colorado Boulder through regular communication with alumni, faculty and staff members and friends of the university.
Letters – September 2012
Readers write in with their memories, questions and comments.
Marching through history
Share your memories at the Golden Buffalo Marching Band alumni reunion during Back to Boulder weekend Thursday, Nov. 1 through Saturday, Nov. 3.
Editor’s Note – September 2012
On the morning of the horrific Aurora, Colo., movie theater shooting, I awoke at 3 a.m. to a text alert on my phone from The Denver Post. Within hours the tragedy hit the Colorado community like an earthquake, its psychological seismic waves radiating across the country.
Head back to Boulder
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.
Buff Tribute: Lance Gentry 1968 – 2012
Lance Gentry (IntlAf’91) oversaw the rise of Boulder-based Justin’s Nut Butter from a local farmers market product to a national natural foods brand.
By the numbers
Details, details – stats on all our Forever Buff athletes.
Show your pride at our pregame
Don’t miss our CU pregame event with food and Forever Buffs at Exposition Park three hours before kickoff. Be sure to look for our giant inflatable buffalo, Alphie.
Test your Buff knowledge
There’s something about the women’s 3,000-meter steeplechase that’s brought out the best in CU competitors in recent years. And 2012 is no different as Buff athletes Emma Coburn and Shalaya Kipp made the three-woman U.S. Olympic steeplechase team. Coburn won the U.S. title in the event and Kipp captured the NCAA championship.
48 hours in Los Angeles
Hit Southern California with us this fall to attend our biggest away game weekend when the Buffs play University of Southern California on Saturday, Oct. 20.
A dozen get call from the “Hall”
Rashaan Salaam (Soc ex’95), the only Heisman Trophy winner in CU history, is among a record dozen people who will be inducted into the CU Athletic Hall of Fame Nov. 15.
Young Buffs sharpen their horns
CU went into August preseason camp trying to settle on a starting quarterback among three primary contenders — third-year sophomore Nick Hirschman and transfers Connor Wood from University of Texas and Jordan Webb from University of Kansas.
Persistent Olympian
It could have been the lasting image of Dathan Ritzenhein (Hist’06) for this Olympic year.
No home to roam
Last October Ted Turner offered to give the city of Boulder a herd of 25 buffalo to put on city open space along the Boulder-Denver Turnpike.
From the President
The road to Boulder can be the stuff dreams are made of.
Serving up seconds
Celebrating its one-year anniversary this summer, the Second Kitchen, made up of 70 members, is a Boulder food co-op run by CU students.
Three secret sins of Boulderites
Boulder residents have a reputation for being über health conscious, exercise-crazed and ultra-green. However, who wants to be perfect all the time? Here are three places where Boulderites can be downright sinful.
Moving beyond morphine
Findings from a CU-Boulder-led research team could change the way chronic pain is treated with drugs such as morphine, which has been around since the 1850s. The United States is one of the world’s highest users of morphine.
By the numbers – September 2012
Some statistics about CU-Boulder.
Map of Life charts biodiversity
Check out the Map of Life, an ambitious web-based effort involving CU-Boulder researchers.
Composing a new college
You may not think that media, design and art history go together, but a faculty steering committee is proposing a new CU-Boulder interdisciplinary college.
Swimming in the Buff
Next time you visit Boulder, you may want to bring your swimsuit and goggles. A large Ralphie-shaped outdoor pool is being built as part of the Rec Center’s $63.5 million renovation funded by a new student fee, approved by students in a landslide 2011 vote.
Profile: Nick Loritsch and Joshua Dragge
Striving to stand out as filmmakers in the immensely competitive city of Los Angeles, Nick Loritsch (Film’03), pictured left, and Joshua Dragge (Film’99), right, have made a giant leap in the industry with the successful debut of their independent film Born & Raised.
Profile: Winifred Adams
Ancient Greeks believed the gemstone heliodor contained the power and warmth of the sun, and to jewelry designer Winifred Adams (Fren’96), her one-of-a-kind heliodor “King Crown Ring” certainly makes a powerful impression. The finger-sized gold coronet features a nearly 10-carat yellow heliodor surrounded by eight shimmering diamonds.
Profile: Hubert Bird
On May 22, 2011, in only 35 minutes, one-third of Joplin, Mo., was destroyed. Winds peaked at 250 miles per hour, reaching a maximum width of one mile. The Joplin tornado led to 161 deaths and the destruction of more than 8,000 buildings. During the recovery of Joplin’s tragedy, composer Hubert Bird (DMus’77) found a way to bring the community together.
September 2012 Obituaries
Class Notes – September 2012
60s and earlier On May 24, 1962, Scott Carpenter (Aero’49, HonDocSci’00) lifted off from Earth in NASA’s Aurora 7 space capsule mounted atop a Mercury-Atlas rocket at Cape Canaveral, Fla., climbing to roughly 165 miles in altitude. Scott was the fourth American astronaut to fly in space and the second to achieve orbit of Earth.