In which assistant athletic director Dave Plati (Jour’82) comments in question-and-answer format on the widespread speculation that CU could switch athletic conferences from the Big 12 to the Pac-10. Your comments are welcome at the end of the jump. This is excerpted from his Plati-‘Tudes blog.
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For nearly half a century, scientists have been trying to figure out how to build a cost-effective and reasonably sized X-ray laser that could, among other things, provide super high-resolution imaging. And for the past two decades, CU-Boulder physics professors Margaret Murnane and Henry Kapteyn have been inching closer to that goal.
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Student journalists working at the CU Independent, the online student newspaper, launched a campaign last week to address issues of inclusivity and diversity through a bold, groundbreaking new awareness campaign called “Speak Out.” U.S. Rep. Jared Polis (D-Boulder), in the photo, keynoted the launch of the campaign at the UMC plaza.
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On Monday, Feb. 22, alumni are invited to meet with the site team from the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association to talk about their experiences with and impressions of the university. Questions and comments should relate to the five criteria below. The team is working on the 10-year reaccreditation of CU-Boulder. The open forum is 3-3:50 p.m., UMC room 235. Here’s more information.
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Most students probably select institutions of higher learning based on majors, research or scholarships available. Perhaps my method was not the most analytical , but it did get me to Boulder in the fall of 1976: Ralphie the buffalo.
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A new approach to social media called “Tweak the Tweet,” conceived of by University of Colorado at Boulder graduate student Kate Starbird and being deployed by members of CU’s Project EPIC research group and colleagues around the nation, is helping Haiti relief efforts by providing standardized syntax for Twitter communications.
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Sometime early in my junior year at CU in 1966 I came to the cold realization I would drop out of school. A full load of courses, working 25 hours a week at the old Crockett and Renalde Bit and Spur factory on West Pearl Street, the challenges of early married life, the pressure to keep grades up to maintain a Regents scholarship and the fact of my student draft deferment had run up against my simple immaturity (I was 20). By the time I was deep into the semester, it became a foregone conclusion that I would become another college dropout statistic.
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The university will undergo a comprehensive evaluation visit Feb. 22-24 by a team representing The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. For the past year and a half, CU-Boulder has been engaged in a process of self-study, addressing the commission’s requirements and criteria for accreditation, which takes place every 10 years. Comments must be received by Jan. 22, 2010.
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CU-Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have been awarded a $495,000 grant to look for Earth-like planets around other stars using technology based on 2005 Nobel Prize-winning research conducted at JILA, a joint institute of the two Boulder institutions. A sophisticated technique will allow the team involved to observe the stars in the near-infrared spectrum where they shine the brightest, according to the researchers.
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The Alumni Association has spent almost a year building the foundations of our Forever Buffs program. Being a lifelong alumni member is an enduring investment in CU, one that begins before admission, builds during undergraduate years, flourishes after graduation and continues through retirement. Forever Buffs instills within alums and students what it means to be a Buff, including an expectation of supporting the university, other alums and students. In addition, the program brings with it numerous services provided to alumni and students by the Alumni Association.

Go here for an FAQ on the background, funding and programming of Forever Buffs.
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When it comes to paying America’s corporate executives, the problem isn’t that they are paid too much but rather how they are paid that helped lead to some of the spectacular corporate implosions in recent years, according to CU-Boulder finance professor Sanjai Bhagat. “Executive compensation plans should lead to policies that are simple, transparent and focused on creating and sustaining long-term shareholder value,” he says.
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CU alumnus-astronaut Jim Voss (MAero’74, HonDocSci’00) has become the second astronaut to join CU-Boulder’s aerospace engineering sciences department following his NASA career, which for Voss included five spaceflights, 202 days in space and four spacewalks. He is one of three astronauts affiliated as faculty at CU-Boulder. He joins former astronaut Joe Tanner (Edu’70), who joined the aerospace engineering sciences department in fall 2008. Their NASA colleague John Grunsfeld, who remains active at NASA, accepted a future appointment as adjoint professor in the astrophysical and planetary sciences department in an e-mail from space last spring.
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When CU-Boulder students moved into the newly renovated Andrews Hall this fall, they were welcomed by scores of returning students and a faculty member and his family who they’ll be living with.
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The University of Colorado at Boulder has become one of the most gay-friendly campuses in the nation, ranked in the top 100 by the nationwide observer, “The Advocate College Guide.”
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The University of Colorado at Boulder is ranked the top “green” university in the nation this year by Sierra magazine in its September/October edition, a move up from second place in 2008. In the report’s three-year history, CU-Boulder remains the only Colorado institution to appear in the Top 10 featured lineup of “eco-enlightened” U.S. colleges.
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First thing this morning I took a brief jaunt to Pearl Street, and people were wearing shorts and biking happily down the block. A few seconds later I watched folks in the Sierra Nevada Mountains stop for coffee at Schat’s Bakery in June Lake, Calif. My nimble footwork and enabled nostalgia came courtesy of a webcam of course.
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Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter (Law’81) will join representatives of three Colorado universities and three federal laboratories Aug. 14 at CU-Boulder for the inaugural symposium of the Colorado Renewable Energy Collaboratory’s Center for Research and Education in Wind, or CREW.
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By Dan Hawkins, CU-Boulder football coach This fall will be my fourth at Colorado, and alumni support for the program has been growing every year. I’d like to thank you for that support and the rebirth of pride and interest in the Buffs. After rising to a national power for most of the 1990s, the 2000s have seen a few
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A woman who had a long history of volunteering and otherwise supporting CU athletics but didn’t attend CU except for summer courses has left $4.75 million to the athletic department for scholarships, the largest gift ever to the department. Louise Bennett Reed died in June and her family home was in Boulder’s Chautauqua area.
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Rare Navajo weavings from what is considered one of the finest Southwest textile collections in the world are on display for a year at the CU-Boulder Museum of Natural History.
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