During the late 1950s, Bob Harvey and his friends listened to folk artists like the Kingston Trio, played guitar and ruminated on the deeper meaning of Jack Kerouac鈥檚 1957 anti-establishment treatise, On the Road.
Representing Vietnamese, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, African American, Mexican American and Taiwanese backgrounds, CU鈥檚 newest multicultural sorority celebrated its chapter鈥檚 emergence on the Boulder campus last fall.
From iPods and Crocs to coffee mugs, it seems everything鈥檚 about customizing to your own taste, and junior Jesse Saba has brought this trend to CU classrooms.
In November Colorado voters elected two first-generation Americans 鈥� also among the youngest ever elected 鈥� to serve on the CU Board of Regents, making it the most diverse board ever.
Developing sensing and imaging systems in everything from cars to medical equipment may be lines of work for future alumni of CU鈥檚 new graduate program in computational optical sensing and imaging.
Mike West, director of education for CU Biodiesel, has taught everyone from postgraduate students to second-graders how to brew their own biodiesel, showing how simple it is to create cleaner, more sustainable fuel from waste.
They鈥檙e in company with this year鈥檚 Grammy nominees Coldplay and Radiohead. 蜜桃传媒破解版下载 resident string quartet, the Tak谩cs Quartet was nominated for a Grammy this year in the category of best chamber music performance.
With severe state budget cuts looming, CU President Bruce Benson and other frustrated higher education leaders are asking lawmakers for the flexibility to raise tuition as they feel necessary.
The football team failed to earn a bowl berth for the second time in coach Dan Hawkins鈥� first three seasons as head coach, but he is aiming for a big improvement in 2009.
Freshman Emily Childs recorded the lowest fall stroke average in the history of CU鈥檚 women鈥檚 golf and was named Big 12 female co-golfer of the month for November.
Runner Jenny Barringer, who won the 2008 NCAA steeplechase title and placed ninth in the Olympics, was chosen female college athlete of the year by the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame.
Six weeks after ending a season in which the volleyball team lost seven of its final eight matches, athletic director Mike Bohn fired head coach Pi鈥檌 Aiu (DistSt ex鈥�89) on Jan. 12.
Bryan Sax, the last CU skier to win a men鈥檚 NCAA giant slalom title, died when two small planes collided over the Florida Everglades on Dec. 6. He was 37.
The women鈥檚 basketball team capped off its nonconference schedule with five straight wins and a championship in the Paradise Classic in Hawaii, where forward Brittany Spears was named most valuable player.
When Lelia Hinkley arrived in Peking, China, in 1921, she was greeted by a famine that placed nearly 20 million Chinese teetering on the brink of starvation.
Students tend to think their college years are 鈥渃razy鈥� and that the 鈥渞eal world鈥� starts after graduation, but Erlinda Kiefel Stafford says the adventure continues long after you receive your diploma.
As on-site reporter for MTV鈥檚 Choose or Lose campaign at the Democratic National Convention last summer, Trevor Martin 鈥檚 reporting gig wasn鈥檛 about taking notes in a traditional reporter鈥檚 notebook with an editor waiting back at the office.
