Winter 2014

There's more to Disneyland than meets the eye. Mike Morrison sees it all. Sometimes in a wetsuit.

At CU, Computer Science goes mainstream and big-time.

Colorado has one of the nation's most diverse bee fauna. An army of volunteers is helping CU scientists track hundreds of front range species.

Chauncey Billups, hoops hero and family man, comes home to Colorado.

For 50 years, CU-Boulder business analysts have produced a widely anticipated Colorado economic forecast. Lately, what they see looks a lot like the flourishing 1990s.

Suzanne Heintz (DistSt’87) totes her family everywhere. Yes, it’s a family of mannequins. What of it?

The CU Marching Band during Back to Boulder Homecoming Weekend in October.

A NASA mission to Mars led by CU-Boulder and Bruce Jakosky of CU’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) is gathering data expected to answer long-standing questions about how and why the Red Planet has changed over the eons.

Calls his originalist view of constitution “Tough Row to Hoe”

I can recall literally jumping for joy only two times in my adult life.

Iconic park’s soil hosts organisms also found in less hospitable environments

Boulder knows cyclists: Andy Hampsten, Tyler Hamilton, Ted King and the Phinney family have all blazed down the local roads and trails.

Endowment for College of Music’s opera program will support three operas a year and “more artistic risks.”

Many of America’s first universities were centuries old by the time they admitted women. At CU-Boulder co-education began early — with the Tyler sisters.

By 2016, CU-Boulder expects 10 percent of all students to come from outside the United States, up from 7 percent now, a record high.

They came from New York and Chicago, Houston and Denver, Washington state and the coast of Maine.

The CU Heritage Center has cleared space for a detailed LEGO model of campus replete with iconic campus buildings, the Flatirons and University Hill.

Our international student enrollments have grown by nearly 60 percent in four years to 2,152 degree-seeking students.

Conference’s top golfers to play at Boulder.

Last spring Sarah Lautman (Engr’15), a chemical and biological engineering major from Massachusetts, joined the women’s lacrosse team as a walk-on — and came up big during the team’s inaugural season, scoring game-winning overtime goals three times.

Seana Steffen (PhDSoc’02) is making the world a better place one business at a time.

With his steely blue eyes, sculpted Italian features and brawny physique, let’s just say actor Christopher Meloni (Hist’83) doesn’t have much to worry about in the looks department.

When Timmye Pollard (CivEngr’46) and the late Ted Pollard (CivEngr’49) were immersed in a structural design project, they often passed ideas to each other at dinner — drawn on napkins, of course.

For a short time, still within memory for some Baby Boomers, Boulder had its own ski run: Chautauqua Mesa Ski Area operated from 1949-52 and in 1962.