Fall 2020

This edition of the Coloradan calls out unrelenting injustice, and a new chapter in our university’s long history of amplifying student and alumni voices to catalyze change.

CU Buffs share experience with racial injustice on campus and illuminate paths toward anti-racism.

CU Boulder’s Wil Srubar found the bacteria to create buildings that grow, fix themselves and clean the air.

RA recounts life at CU during a global pandemic.

How the university has adjusted to protect students from COVID-19.

Marco and Whitney Uribe met at CU in 2008. While living in New York City for Marco’s medical residency, he fought COVID-19 head-on.

New research suggests these simple, century-old campaign tools matter — often in a good way.

Those on the ideological fringes spread most of it, but in the end it hurts us all.

When fall semester classes began in late August at CU Boulder, wide-open building spaces and campus lawns became makeshift classrooms to prevent the spread of COVID-19

Senior economist Richard Wobbekind, associate dean for business and government relations, has worked for the Leeds School of Business since 1985. Here he discusses our nation’s economy in a pandemic world.

CU researcher aims to bring a sense of touch to amputees' hands

In Boulder County, there are more than 1,580 Tesla cars registered. The number keeps growing, and many CU Boulder alumni are among the proud owners of the famed electric cars.

CU Boulder law professor helps champion the change

With a $25 million National Science Foundation award, CU Boulder is launching a new quantum science and engineering research center.

Campus lore says the first bell cracked following a football victory over Colorado School of Mines in 1926. Others claim it happened during the off-season.

Year round, CU Boulder is alive with color.

CU distinguished professor Marvin Caruthers helped change the course of global human health.

The top-floor terrace of the CASE building offers a moment of solitude, unobstructed Flatiron views and a friendly presence — a magnificent bronze buffalo named Silver and Gold.

Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated during my final semester in college. Two days before graduation, Robert F. Kennedy was shot and killed immediately after declaring to his cheering supporters that the country was ready to end its fractious divisions.

The new Forever Buffs Network connects CU alumni worldwide.

Coinciding with the latest NCAA sanctions, a new CU Athletics program teaches student-athletes personal branding, entrepreneurial skills and financial literacy.

The Buffs lost legendary fan Betty Fitzgerald Hoover, one of the "CU Twins."

Rick George, the sixth full-time athletic director in Buffs history, is now in his eighth year at CU Boulder. Here he talks about transforming CU’s facilities, leading in a pandemic and taking Sundays to cut the grass.

As a journalist for the Denver Post, G. Brown covered music for nearly 30 years. Today he’s executive director of the Colorado Music Experience and author of On Record.

Edna Ma has worked in the Los Angeles area as a private practice anesthesiologist since 2007. The mother of two children also is author of two bilingual children’s books featuring English, Mandarin and pinyin.

After COVID-19 hit, it didn’t take long for Corey Cappelloni to tire of video chat. He wanted to see his Nana — Ruth Andres, 98 — face-to-face.

Our Forever Buffs who have passed away.

Readers comment on the Shakespeare Festival, The Connetion bowling alley and nostalgic memories from their time at CU.

CU Boulder's largest concert hall began construction in 1909. It was completed in 1922.