Forget Oprah鈥檚 Book Club or The New York Times bestseller list. If you鈥檙e looking for diversity 鈥� both in subject matter and artistic form 鈥� here's your summer reading list.
The last time Cynthia Lawrence sang with world-renowned operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti, he gave her a one-eyed glance to see where she was going to land before she plunged backward off a wall in Giacomo Puccini鈥檚 opera Tosca.
When Bill Gates put up $125 million to fund his own philanthropic foundation in 2000, one of the first employees in the fledgling Seattle organization was Allan Golston, a health care executive working in nearby Olympia, Wash.
Like more than 900 cities, Boulder has voluntarily committed to meeting the Kyoto Protocol鈥檚 greenhouse gas reduction targets. And, like all but two of those cities, it is failing to meet its goals.
Treatment of injured, diseased or aging muscle tissues in humans, including damage wreaked by muscular dystrophy, may reach new heights, thanks to a recent discovery by a CU research team.
Anthropologists often travel the world for their research, but this discovery involved just a six-block stroll from the Boulder campus: a rare stone tool cache containing traces of camel and other animal proteins from 13,000 years ago.
Boulder chef Hosea Rosenberg became a 鈥淭op Chef鈥� in February when he won Bravo TV鈥檚 reality competition, completing a 12-month season and beating out 16 others from around the country to win $100,000.
Civil engineering professor Bernard Amadei鈥檚 work extends far beyond the classroom since he helped found the international humanitarian nonprofit Engineers Without Borders-USA in 2001.
Former ethnic studies professor Ward Churchill was unlawfully fired from the University of Colorado for expressing his political beliefs, a Denver jury decided April 2. But the jury only awarded the professor $1 in damages.
Scores of CU community members gathered in Old Main on May 6 for the 79th Annual Alumni Awards Ceremony. Every year the Alumni Association gives out some of the university鈥檚 most prestigious awards.
The men鈥檚 basketball team finished with the most losses in a season in program history, which dates back to 1901, and with its second-worst in-conference winning percentage ever.
The women鈥檚 tennis team started 5-0 in Big 12 competition for the first time ever but lost four of its last six regular season matches to finish fifth in conference play.
Steve Kerr played golf at CU and so did his daughter, Erin Kerr , and thanks to his generosity the university鈥檚 golf programs now have an official course to call home.
While the battle for CU鈥檚 starting quarterback job isn鈥檛 expected to be settled before August, one candidate broke his thumb in April and another bowed out of the competition.
The skiers won two individual titles but for the second straight year finished second to the University of Denver in the team standings at the NCAA Championships.
Broaden your Buff network by posting your company鈥檚 job openings and internship opportunities in the Career Services job database and in the Alumni Association鈥檚 Forever Buffs Network, a social and professional networking site.
