Features
Cartoonist in the Cabinet
Chance Favors the Prepared
CU-Boulder football caught some lucky breaks on the way to a national title 25 years ago. It didn’t hurt that the 1990 Buffs were also great at the game.
Puppy Love and Perseverance
After overcoming personal tragedy and business failure, Heidi Ganahl founded a small daycare for dogs that’s now the world’s largest pet care franchise.
South of Florence
Michael and Jennifer Schmelzer, brother and sister winemakers, produce premium Old-World wines on a family estate in Tuscany.
Buffalo Rancher
Hunted nearly to extinction by the time the University of Colorado was founded, the American buffalo owes its rebound mainly to private ranchers.
Tools of the Camel Hunters
A new campus exhibition explores a remarkable set of tools that ice-age humans used to harvest Boulder’s natural bounty.
The Brave One
Screenwriter and free-speech hero Dalton Trumbo (A&S ex’28) is the subject of an upcoming feature film with Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston and a new biography.
Voyage to Pluto
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is about to fly past Pluto. Chief mission scientist Alan Stern (PhDAstro’89) is ready for anything.
The Governor
Monument Man
Colorado’s Browns Canyon is now a national monument. For Bill Dvorak (MEdu’80) it was a long time coming.
Long Ball
It’s been nearly 15 years since Tom Zeiler introduced CU-Boulder students to “America through Baseball.” They still clamor to get in.
Inventor’s Paradise
21st-Century Green Grocer
At Door to Door Organics, Chad Arnold (MBA’07) is helping reinvent how people shop for groceries.
Dr. Gridiron
In the annals of CU football, Derek McCartney has a famous name. Now he’s making one for himself.
Fenn Wins Pulitzer
CU-Boulder historian Elizabeth Fenn receives 2015 Pulitzer Prize for book on Plains Indians tribe.
Infographic: LEGO CU
“Hit the Bricks,” a 12-by-17-foot LEGO® model of campus, opened Dec. 6 at the Heritage Center in Old Main.
Addis in Aurora
Together, Ethiopians and Eritreans make up one of the largest immigrant groups in Colorado — and an ambitious bunch at CU.
The Illuminator
Without Phil Watkins Jr. and his family, the world would be a less colorful place. Especially Colorado.
Tea for the Turf
Assistant grounds manager Ryan Heiland developed a new way of seeding the campus with microbe-rich compost tea — to stunning effect. Now he’s helping scientists explore the roots of his success.
See You at the Met
Ambition. Amor. Seduction. Betrayal. For CU’s opera singers, it’s all in a semester’s work. For some, it’ll be a life.
The Hunt for Dark Data
1960s Satellite recordings recovered by a CU team may tell us something about climate change, hurricanes, rainforests and a lot of other things we care about now.
The Sentinel
There’s more to Disneyland than meets the eye. Mike Morrison sees it all. Sometimes in a wetsuit.
The bee counters
Colorado has one of the nation’s most diverse bee fauna. An army of volunteers is helping CU scientists track hundreds of Front Range species.
MEGA GIGA Tera Boom!
Profile: Christopher Meloni
With his steely blue eyes, sculpted Italian features and brawny physique, let’s just say actor Christopher Meloni (Hist’83) doesn’t have much to worry about in the looks department.
’90s Replay
For 50 years, CU-Boulder business analysts have produced a widely anticipated Colorado economic forecast. Lately, what they see looks a lot like the flourishing 1990s.
Mr. Big Shot
The Humor Code
Skiers swarm the slopes of Colorado, art lovers crowd the Louvre in Paris, Elvis Presley fans pay homage at Graceland in Memphis, Tenn. Where do comedians flock and cluster?
Leaning In, Facebook-style
As a leader at Facebook, Kelly Graziadei (Jour’97) shows that it takes more than social skills to be successful.