Engineering building with purple tree

Look: Campus Trees

March 1, 2015

The CU-Boulder campus isn’t formally an arboretum, but it might as well be: At least 120 tree species grow on the 305-acre main property.

Colorado Bookstore in 2015

Colorado Bookstore on The Hill to Close

March 1, 2015

A bookstore has stood at the northwest corner of Broadway and College Avenue — 1111 Broadway — for 50 years.

liquid nitrogen at concert

Origins: Dry Fogger

March 1, 2015

October 1982. Los Angeles. Ghouls rise from a fog-fingered graveyard and join a zombified Michael Jackson in one of history’s most iconic bits of choreography in the watershed “Thriller” video, a mini-horror flick built around the eponymous hit song.

Reatea Kifletsion and Lidia Feseha

Addis in Aurora

March 1, 2015

Together, Ethiopians and Eritreans make up one of the largest immigrant groups in Colorado — and an ambitious bunch at CU.

Phil Watkins Jr. in front of window

The Illuminator

March 1, 2015

Without Phil Watkins Jr. and his family, the world would be a less colorful place. Especially Colorado.

LEGO campus

Infographic: LEGO CU

March 1, 2015

“Hit the Bricks,” a 12-by-17-foot LEGO® model of campus, opened Dec. 6 at the Heritage Center in Old Main.

Members of the cast of Così fan tutte

See You at the Met

March 1, 2015

Ambition. Amor. Seduction. Betrayal. For CU’s opera singers, it’s all in a semester’s work. For some, it’ll be a life.

Ryan Heiland

Tea for the Turf

March 1, 2015

Assistant grounds manager Ryan Heiland developed a new way of seeding the campus with microbe-rich compost tea — to stunning effect.

Antarctica

The Hunt for Dark Data

March 1, 2015

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.

Clark Oldroyd

Navigator Calls to Port

March 1, 2015

Alumni travel director retires after nearly 40 years at CU-Boulder

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