Winter 2018

We stock our shelves with books and pills intended to make us happy, but CU psychologist June Gruber warns that too much of a good thing can backfire.

Kimberly Hess and brother Steven climbed the tallest mountain on each of the seven continents. Next up for Kim: A trek to Earth’s poles.

America’s first president brewed his own beer. Travis Rupp wants you to be able to taste it.

Christopher Bell has some ideas about how Hollywood can do better.

The next time you’re traveling through Denver, longtime Colorado news anchor Kim Christiansen will be among the first to welcome you.

One recipe for enduring love: Wes and Linda, a typewriter and a 1902 map of Colorado.

Antarctica is one of Earth’s most forbidding places. That’s why CU researchers keep going back.

Blake Leeper aims to compete in the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. The double-amputee traveled to CU Boulder for evaluation by Alena Grabowski.

CU Boulder sociologist Leslie Irvine, author of My Dog Always Eats First, studies the relationships between humans and their pets.

CU Boulder research indicates snakebite incidence is rising, possibly due to climate change.

Coloradan columnist Paul Danish looks back on his favorite CU classes.

America’s most famous documentarian visits CU Boulder.

CU Engineering's latest milestone, campus living by the numbers and CU's new drone challenge.

Colorado is a great place to see — and hear — birds: Some 500 species have been observed here, more than in all but a handful of other states.

The giant wall-mounted fossil inside the Benson Earth Sciences depicts the most complete Stegosaurus skeleton ever found.

Celebrating the career of a Buff who ranks high among American cinema's classiest leading men — and who started a CU legacy to boot.

CU Boulder Next distills the dynamism of the Buffs community for alumni and friends in major cities around the country.

Homecoming Weekend 2018, Roaming Buffs trips and Crested Butte.

Sweeping Flatirons views and a large bronze buffalo sculpture rank among the many charms of CU Boulder’s newest central campus building.

Chancellor DiStefano discusses his life as a first-generation college student.

Football opens season with five wins, then drops seven; head coach let go

The latest on CU athletes past and present.

Get to know women's basketball star Mya Hollingshed.

Podcaster Dan Carlin's Hardcore History series has become one of the most acclaimed in its genre.

Vicki Huddleston was the top U.S. diplomat in Cuba from 1999 to 2002. She held the position at a time when few women held a comparable rank.

When Corey Cappelloni stepped up to the starting line of the Marathon des Sables — a156-mile ultra marathon through the Sahara Desert — his mind was calm.

Pamela Penfold, a Coloradan magazine editor for 24 years, including 13 as chief editor, died Aug. 27 in Boulder. She was 70.

Our readers wrote in droves to respond to the Fall 2018 issue.

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In the early 1900s, a person could ride a train directly to and from the CU Boulder campus.