Dame Julie Andrews, in her commencement speech to 6,084 new alumni and their families last month at Folsom Field, heralded CU-Boulder as a “public Ivy League school.” That’s high praise. It’s up to us to live up to it.
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Amelia Dickerson is a CU-Boulder student who was left blind by a car accident in high school. Recently she asked her chemistry instructor, Susan Hendrickson, to help her more fully participate in laboratory experiments, developing routines to enable her to engage at a higher level in the class. Her desire to learn — to push beyond boundaries — ended up
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Recent months have shown the university at its best in ways big and small, on both a grand scale and on a personal level. We were excited to learn this fall that the National Solar Observatory chose the University of Colorado Boulder for its headquarters. CU-Boulder’s east campus will be the primary site for scientific research on solar physics and
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“Your guidance and encouragement helped me to stay in school and complete my undergraduate studies at a time when I had doubts about my ability,” Mel wrote. “You told me a degree would give me options I would not have otherwise. Your words had a profound impact on my career and on my life.”
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When Cheryl Campbell (Bus, ChemEngr’83, MBus’90) wrote to me asking how she could help the university during a prolonged funding crisis for public higher education, I responded she could help with her voice.
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