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It’s not all rocket science

CU major grants

CU-Boulder was awarded an astonishing $359 million in research funding in 2011. It is the No. 1 NASA-funded public university.
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Ancient Arctic accessory appears

Jeremy Foin/University of California, Davis

While excavating a 1,000-year-old seaside house in Alaska’s Seward Peninsula, researchers led by CU-Boulder made a startling discovery.
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Manifest West

In this tale of Southwestern suspense, Dr. Michael Ganson makes a daring decision to save one life at the risk of sacrificing another. He is thrown into a medical malpractice nightmare with strings being pulled by powerful people who have an agenda to take him down.
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Wandering the wave

Jeff Diener (EPOBio’92)

Jeff Diener (EPOBio’92) photographed this hiker exploring “The Wave,” a stunning rock formation on the border of Utah and Arizona.
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Center spread – March 2012 Flatirons and Farrand

Casey A. Cass

This distinctive Tuscan-influenced cupola on Libby Hall is highlighted by heavy snow on the Flatirons. Casey A. Cass
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Volume 16, Number 3 March 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. It is published four times per year in March, June, September and December by the CU-Boulder Alumni Association. Permission to reprint articles and illustrations may be obtained from the editor.
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Letters – March 2012

Neal Beidleman (MechEngr’81)

Professional kudos I ordinarily don’t have time for much extracurricular reading, so I’m always grateful for the ease and visual pleasure with which one can page through an issue of the Coloradan and learn a host of interesting things. This last issue, though, was a stunner.
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Forever Buff families in a cord

Photo by M. Douglas Wray

Did you happen to spy the black-and-gold cords some graduating seniors wore during commencement in December?
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Finding yourself on campus

It’s hard to keep track of all our new academic and administrative buildings in this era of major construction that rivals the expansion during the 1960s.
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Travel with the Roaming Buffs

From the charming villages and vineyards of Champagne and Burgundy in early autumn to the extraordinary sites of Paris, join us as we travel to these special areas of France.
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