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Then and Now: Hale Science Building

Hale was the first science building on campus and at one point housed all the sciences, a small museum and the School of Law. The building was named after the second university president, Horace Hale.

Mckinley Wright

McKinley Wright Is Here to Lead

Dec. 2, 2019

Minnesota native McKinley Wright IV is the All-Pac-12 First Team point guard of the CU men’s basketball team. The 6-foot junior shares his thoughts on toughness, leadership and managing high expectations.

Jake Reagan

CU's Jake Reagan Named a Rhodes Scholar

Nov. 25, 2019

Senior Jake Reagan has been named a 2020 Rhodes Scholar, becoming the second CU Boulder student to win the prestigious scholarship in as many years.

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Migrating for Medical Marijuana

Nov. 20, 2019

by Tracy Ferrell (MEngl'96, PhD'01) (McFarland Books, 237 pages; 2019) Buy the Book In the last six years, Colorado has seen a population boom reminiscent of the state’s first few years of settlement. But rather than staking mining claims or establishing homesteads, these new pioneers are on the frontier of...

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Recipe for Chaos

Nov. 20, 2019

by Zack Matheson (Engl'96) (Amazon, 356 pages; 2019) Buy the Book The restaurant industry in Park City, Utah, can be murder. Celebrity chef Renny Shepherd is found gunned down in his Main Street restaurant. As Detective Lincoln Coulter investigates, he discovers that the chef was probably killed for a recipe...

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Not a Thing to Comfort You

Nov. 11, 2019

by Emily Wortman-Wunder (EPOBio '95) (University of Iowa Press, 148 pages; 2019) Buy the Book From a lightning death on an isolated peak to the intrigues of a small town orchestra, the glimmering stories in this debut collection explore how nature—damaged, fierce, and unpredictable—worms its way into our lives. Here...

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The Cryptid Keeper

Nov. 11, 2019

by Lija Fisher (Thtr'97) (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 320 pages; 2019) Buy the Book Life has gotten complicated for thirteen-year-old Clivo Wren. After taking up his deceased father’s mission to find the extraordinary creature whose blood grants everlasting life, Clivo is spending his summer not at camp or hanging out...

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Reverberations of a Stroke: A Memoir

Nov. 6, 2019

by Karl Gustafson (APMath, Fin'58) (Springer International Publishing, 65 pages; 2019) Buy the Book In the early morning hours of Feb. 1, 2016, Karl Gustafson became instinctively aware that something catastrophic was happening inside him. A severe headache that had persisted for days had taken a sudden turn for the...

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Homecoming Throwback 

Nov. 1, 2019

From the 1920s and through the 1950s, a window-display mastermind joyfully created spectacular scenes in his hardware store on what is now the Pearl Street Mall.

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Learn to Walk, Try to Fly

Oct. 25, 2019

by Troy Rappold (Comm'90) (Credo House Publishers, 2019; 158 pages) Buy the Book From Chapter 1 "Over the years I have come to appreciate the metaphors of walking and flying to describe the journey of faith, and I wrote this book using these metaphors to explain what happens when we...

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