Apprehensions & Convictions: Adventures of a 50-Year-Old Rookie Cop
What makes a fifty-year-old man quit a highly successful career in charity work to take on the low-paid, dangerous job of being a police officer?
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Falling Bear, Part II
In early July, a two-year-old black bear climbed a tree near the engineering complex, just east of Cockerell Hall, drawing delighted spectators, trained animal handlers and campus photographer Glenn Asakawa (Jour’86).
A Poster for Every Park
In the summer of 1979 Robert Decker (Comm’84) studied under Ansel Adams in Yosemite National Park. The life-changing experience united his emerging love of photography with his awe of America’s wild places.
Larry Zimmer, Voice Of The Buffs
42 Seasons. Larry Zimmer.
Goodbye Colorado Bookstore, Hello Walgreens
A Walgreens drug store will move into The Hill space occupied for half a century by the Colorado Bookstore.
Heard Around Campus
“With the recent history of the Midwestern United States as our guide, it can be presumed that it will infest and kill nearly every untreated ash tree in this city.”
CU to Host Presidential Debate
CU-Boulder will host a debate this fall among contenders for the Republican nomination for president of the United States.
Mission to Pluto: Accomplished
When NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft left Earth for Pluto in 2006, Jamey Szalay (PhDPhys’15) was in high school.
The G.I. Buffs
The year was 1944. On June 22, President Roosevelt signed the G.I. Bill of Rights. Three months later 55 G.I.s enrolled at CU-Boulder.
Kids, Cartoons and Junk Food
Children tend to reach for low-nutrition, high-calorie food — and more of it — after seeing cartoon characters that seem overweight, CU-Boulder researchers have found.
Fenn Wins 2015 Pulitzer Prize
CU-Boulder historian Elizabeth Fenn’s book on plains indians was a decade in the making.
A Law Degree for Non-Lawyers
The University of Colorado Law School has established its first degree program for students who will not be lawyers.
2016-17 Trips
For more information about the Roaming Buffs travel program email , call or or visit alumni.colorado.edu/travel.
Look: Mark of the Buffs
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.
Shakespeare to Remember
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.
Moonwalker: Next Stop, Mars
In CU-Boulder visit, Buzz Aldrin says it’s all about Mars.
Stay Young: Run
Running seems to slow the aging process.
New College Gets Debut Dean
The university appointed Lori Bergen as founding dean of the College of Media, Communication and Information (CMCI), which formally opens in the fall semester.
Heard Around Campus
“Thousands of schools reach out to the Dalai Lama. We thought a personal invitation would help our chances.”
Digits
Fidgiting about digits
Bringing the Dalai Lama to Boulder
The Dalai Lama will visit CU-Boulder’s campus Oct. 20 and 21, 2015 during a two-day “Compassion in Action” event.
New Research Group Faces Stormy Future — and That’s the Point
The Tempest was built for perilous conditions. Plenty lie ahead.
Colorado Bookstore on The Hill to Close
A bookstore has stood at the northwest corner of Broadway and College Avenue — 1111 Broadway — for 50 years. It won’t much longer: The Colorado Bookstore building was available for lease over the winter, and an owner of the property told the Boulder Daily Camera he expects the store to close this spring.
Enabling Pregnancy
A low-cost infertility treatment based on technology developed at CU-Boulder is expected to become available in Africa in 2015.
A Life in the Air
You know you’re getting old when your roommate publishes his memoirs.
Varieties of Pain
The biology of physical and social pain may be more distinct than scientists thought.
Heard Around Campus
“Shift work goes against our fundamental biology.”
Google Grows in Boulder
Google is big on Boulder; that’s plain.
Digits
Numbers, numbers, numbers. They tell a story.