CU Rocket Project students Merle Reisbeck, left, and Russell Nidey look on as a colleague works on a biaxial pointing control. Photo courtesy CU/LASP.

鈥楩rom Jars to the Stars,鈥 with help from CU

Dec. 1, 2010

CU Rocket Project students Merle Reisbeck, left, and Russell Nidey look on as a colleague works on a biaxial pointing control. Photo courtesy CU/LASP. Rocket-pointing control was Western Hemisphere鈥檚 first major home-grown space technology; author talks about how that CU innovation spawned an aerospace titan How did a company best...

Grace Fleming van Sweringen Baur in her Boulder home. Photo courtesy of Carnegie Branch Library for Local History.

Family sleuth uncovers, renews pioneer鈥檚 legacy

Dec. 1, 2010

Grace Fleming van Sweringen Baur chaired the University of Colorado Department of Germanic Languages from 1909 to 1930, when her sudden death ended her tireless service. Hoping to immortalize his wife and her legacy, her grieving husband endowed a scholarship in her name. But other events overshadowed the van Sweringen...

Capitol building in D.C.

Dear Congress: Colorado students will CU in D.C.

Oct. 1, 2010

In the fall of 1980, Ken Bickers was working in a Washington, D.C., political office. He鈥檇 come to the nation鈥檚 capital as part of a not-for-profit internship program, and the experience augured his career.

James Mack celebrating life in Moab.

鈥榊our life stops and starts again鈥

Oct. 1, 2010

Mom who鈥檚 been there sets up scholarship for survivors of childhood cancer Patty Feist recalls with perfect clarity the call, the date, the time and the message that upended her life. It was April 17, 1997, at 10:45 a.m. She was on the job, working as lab coordinator at the...

Josette Sheeran, executive director of the U.N. World Food Programme, visits with students from the Stara School in Kenya. credit: WFP/Peter Smerdon

Ending world hunger is alum鈥檚 passion, and job

June 1, 2010

CU alum Josette Sheeran, the executive director of the U.N. World Food Programme, is on a mission to fight world hunger one cup at a time.

Larkin Poynton

Freshman campaigns for scholarship in memory of friends

June 1, 2010

Soon after the tragic 2008 automobile death of Longmont senior Kyle Metcalf and UC Denver freshman Caitlin Epple, much of the Longmont High School community was in shock鈥攊ncluding Larkin Poynton, a close friend of both of them. After a while, he and others in the community 鈥渢ook it as something...

Flatirons

Gifted student, cherished friend far from forgotten

March 1, 2010

Alex McGuiggan had a passion for life, poetry, music, 鈥榤y mountains鈥 and friends; a new scholarship in his honor aims to keep his memory, and promise, alive

Mary McClanahan

Computer wizard energizes Classics

March 1, 2010

Amid CU-Boulder鈥檚 storied progress in leading-edge fields such as biotech and energy, the university鈥檚 Classics Department (incorporating the study of ancient Greek and Latin, history, and archaeology) garners fewer headlines鈥攁nd fewer of the research grants and private gifts that could help the department thrive. Yet while Mary McClanahan (鈥67, 鈥69...

Steven F. Maier, distinguished professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Colorado

Hope for minimizing cognitive decline and pain

March 1, 2010

Why do older people emerge from, say, hip surgery and an infection with impaired cognitive functions? And what if chronic and enhanced pain could be treated with a single injection of gene therapy? On a recent morning, an auditorium full of older adults mused over those questions. Steven F. Maier...

Mildred "Mims" Buck

Centenarian still sowing seeds of scholarship

Dec. 1, 2009

When Mildred Buck came to the University of Colorado, the roaring 鈥20s were yet to crash. A 鈥渒indly professor of Greek,鈥 George Norlin, was president, and his words were yet to be carved into the fa莽ade of the then-unbuilt library that now bears his name. Since then, pivotal events of...

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