2009 eleven female remains and an unborn fetus were discovered on the West Mesa outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Irene Blea has synthesized what she experienced while living in the region and introduces us to Dora, a single mother, and her two daughters, Luna and Andrea.
Charlie, the proud hero of this strong and gripping story, is known to his fellow truckers, loggers, and fishermen as Hawk. His father, a full-blooded Hupok, taught him his Indian heritage; his Scots-Irish mother gave him a lifelong love of reading.
Karen M. Paget shows how the CIA turned the National Student Association into an intelligence asset during the Cold War, with students used — often wittingly and sometimes unwittingly — as undercover agents inside America and abroad.
Pumping gas in a small Colorado town in the summer of 1964 is hot, grimy work — especially if you want to be a rock ‘n roll star, like Bobby Masters and the members of his struggling band.
Spirituals originated among enslaved Africans in America during the colonial era. They resonate throughout African American history from that time to the civil rights movement, from the cotton fields to the concert stage, and influenced everything from gospel music to blues and rap.
The tragic death of hockey star Derek Boogaard at twenty-eight was front-page news across the country in 2011 and helped shatter the silence about violence and concussions in professional sports.
Professional assassin John Lago faces off against his deadliest adversary yet—his wife—in Hostile Takeover, the exciting sequel to Shane Kuhn’s bestselling debut The Intern’s Handbook.
It was from a jeep on a 2008 game drive in Swaziland that Melinda MacInnis (MCreatWrit’97) saw her first wild rhinoceroses, a mother and calf.
Fastest Mile Senior Jake Hurysz (Comm’15) in February broke the CU record for fastest mile with a time of 3 minutes, 58.13 seconds, finishing fifth at the Husky Classic, an indoor track meet in Seattle. Former Buff Stephen Pifer (Geol’08) held the previous record of 3:59.55.
In San Francisco CU biogeochemist Eve-Lyn Hinckley and a panel of alumni addressed a hot topic in parched California: Water.
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Our Buffs talk back.
CU-Boulder historian Elizabeth Fenn’s book on plains indians was a decade in the making.
Brie Hooks (Soc’17) may be small — 5 feet,1/2 inch — but she’s come up big for CU soccer. Last season the forward from greater Seattle led the team in goals (8) and points (23) and made the All-Pac-12 second team. A singer who has studied sign language, she imagines a career working with the deaf.
The University of Colorado Law School has established its first degree program for students who will not be lawyers.
The women’s golf team finished fifth at the Pac-12 Championships, its best result since joining the conference four years ago. The Buffs hosted the tournament at Boulder Country Club April 20-22.
On a cloudless spring day at Folsom Field, the final beam of the Champions Center moves into place during a “topping-off” ceremony.
District attorney is not a job for the faint of heart. Ask Stan Garnett (Hist’78, Law’82).
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The University of Colorado Boulder adopted the buffalo as a mascot in 1934, after a national, student-led contest generated more than 1,000 responses. Boulder resident Andrew Dickson ultimately was credited for the first of six submissions proposing the buffalo. He won a $5 prize.
The colorado shakespeare festival, which is playing out its 58th season this summer, is at its finest when the weather cooperates — which doesn’t always mean what you might think it does.
It’s hard to imagine 3 billion miles, the distance (give or take) between Earth and Pluto. That’s the equivalent of about 12,500 trips to our moon.
In CU-Boulder visit, Buzz Aldrin says it’s all about Mars.
Fifty years ago Naomi Cole (HomeEcon’65) was in the last wave of students in CU-Boulder’s home economics major. She studied textiles, nutrition, chemistry, interior design and money management.
The glory of fall in Boulder speaks for itself — but isn’t everything better with other Buffs?
All told, the University of Colorado Boulder has won 28 national titles – 20 in skiing, seven in cross country and one in football.
Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano discusses student success and what the University is doing to help.
Working as “popcorn girls” at various Boulder theaters in the late 1970s, sisters Kathy (Engl, PoliSci’86) and Robin Beeck (Comm’88), founders of the Boulder International Film Festival (BIFF), saw lots of movies — good, bad and sleazy.
