Gallery
- By 1911 CU-Boulder’s women had decided the time was right for a major campus building of their own, one with parlors, bedrooms, a dining room and a gymnasium.
- It’s been a banner year for the University Press of Colorado, the nonprofit book publisher co-founded by CU-Boulder in 1965.
- Over decades CU-Boulder has earned a supreme reputation in skiing, starting with its first national championship, in 1959.
- Contenders for the Republican nomination for president prepare to debate at Coors Events Center before a live audience of about 1,000.
- When Barack Obama became the first sitting president to visit CU-Boulder, there was no primary election underway or debate on his schedule.
- Chris Davenport (Hist’93) and Aspen ski mountaineers Christy and Ted Mahon made history this spring by summiting Colorado’s 13,824-foot Jagged Mountain and skiing down.
- In the summer of 1979 Robert Decker (Comm’84) studied under Ansel Adams in Yosemite National Park. The life-changing experience united his emerging love of photography with his awe of America’s wild places.
- The brain is a notoriously ravenous organ, so feeding an average of 15,000 students every day is no small feat.
- The University of Colorado Hiking Club was founded April 1, 1919, to foster “a greater interest in the vast natural beauty that surrounds the University and to furnish an opportunity for the fullest enjoyment of [it].”