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When Lea Alvarado began her new job as alumni career counselor at CU-Boulder in August, the phone started ringing off the hook.

After serving as CU’s faculty and staff weekly newspaper for almost 40 years, it fell victim to budget cuts.

In a resounding defeat for fired CU-Boulder ethnic studies professor Ward Churchill, a judge ruled July 7 that Churchill deserves neither financial compensation nor his job back.

A syllabus spotlight from the fall 2009 issue.

Numbers and statistics from the fall 2009 issue.

More than 19,000 CU-Boulder alums donated to the university in the fiscal year ending June 30 — 8.8 percent more than the prior year and the most in the university’s history.

In June a Boulder jury found Diego Olmos Alcalde guilty of first-degree murder, felony murder, first-degree sexual assault and second-degree kidnapping of CU-Boulder senior Susannah Chase on Dec. 21, 1997.

Chronic seizures caused by traumatic head injuries may be caused by chemicals released by the brain’s immune system to try to repair the injured site, according to CU-Boulder researchers.

CU investigators discovered the first evidence of shorelines on Mars in June, indicating a deep, ancient lake. A Holy Grail of sorts, the finding could help scientists zero in on evidence of past life on the planet.

For decades, pulling an all-nighter in Norlin Library meant sneaking into the stacks and hiding out until morning. Not anymore.