The University of Colorado Boulder has partnered with the Mind Research Network in Albuquerque, N.M., to bring to campus a state-of-the-art magnetic resonancescanner that will significantly enhance the neuroimaging capabilities on campus.
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University of Colorado junior Emma Coburn and five former Buffs are set to compete at the 2011 IAAF World Championships in Athletics Aug. 27-Sept. 4 in Daegu, South Korea.
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Piya Sorcar (Bus, Econ, Jour’01) has received a major award for her work on TeachAIDS, a nonprofit startup she founded out of Stanford, which has created new technology to address numerous persistent problems with HIV education around the world.
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Shanghai, China-based Ryan McMunn (Bus’02) exults on top of Mt. Kilimanjaro, which he climed in June. He was fortunate enough to climb to the Everest Base Camp in Nepal with CU alums Grant Burgess (Bus’08, MBA’11) and Leon McBroom (Comm’05, MBA’10) in June 2010.
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At least three true freshmen – and possibly a fourth – will be in the University of Colorado’s starting lineup when the Buffaloes open the 2011 football season on Sept. 3 at Hawai’i.
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CU-Boulder Alumni Association online community manager Matt Duncan (Bus’92) captured CU-Boulder’s incoming students walking through the Alumni Association’s Forever Buffs arch after convocation on Friday, Aug. 19.
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Thousands of riders in Buffalo Bicycle Classic will help CU-Boulder students with scholarships.
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Volunteers come in all shapes, sizes and ages – Aspen Lee Csaszar has put on the Forever Buffs t-shirt and jumped right in to help!
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Although World War II is one of the most documented conflicts of the twentieth century, western audiences have had little exposure to Soviet photographs of that war. Through Soviet Jewish Eyes, based on CU-Boulder professor David Shneer’s critically acclaimed book of the same title, presents over sixty images that concern Soviet aesthetics and narratives of World War II.
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Barb Banta was recently lauded by Moe Tabrizi, Campus Sustainability Director for her efforts to reduce power consumption at the Alumni Center. Electricity consumption has dropped 14% compared to last year, netting an $8,000 savings for the university.
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Chemical and biological engineering students and faculty at the University of Colorado Boulder have launched several innovative technologies that are fueling Colorado’s economy by creating jobs and drawing significant funding to the state, including a $155 million investment in Sundrop Fuels in July.
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The University of Colorado will officially open its newest athletic facility, a basketball and volleyball practice facility adjacent to the Coors Events Center, during a ceremony on August 20.
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Each year, Career Services at CU-Boulder partners with the Engineering BOLD Center (formerly the Multicultural Engineering Program) and the Multicultural Business Students Association to collect clean, gently worn business attire during the summer months.
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The CU community mourns the loss of a great friend to rock and roll: Wendy Kale (Comm’79). Program Council staff remember her fondly as ‘Wendy ROCK n’ ROLL’ and recall her enthusiasm for her work.
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Tommy Mitchell (ChemBiochem’03) and Cassidy Bradford Mitchell (IntlAf’02) sent us several photos of their world wide travels during the last few years and of their wedding reception featuring 14 other Buffs! They say the common theme to the photos is, “the world is out there and travel and exposure to different cultures is a great thing.” The first photo here is of the two in Machu Picchu, Peru, in April 2011.
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Single game tickets for CU football games this fall go on sale on Monday, Aug. 1, for both in-person and online sales. For all home games, Alumni Association tickets are located in section 215. For all away games, tickets are located in the visitors section. Purchase tickets here now.
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Several University of Colorado Boulder faculty and students are participating in NASA’s Juno Mission to Jupiter, now slated for launch Aug. 5 from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center and which is expected to help steer scientists toward the right recipe for planet-making.
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University of Colorado men’s basketball head coach Tad Boyle announced Wednesday the 2011-12 basketball schedule at the 17th Annual Fred Casotti Golf Classic at Colorado National.
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Relatively new to the CU-Boulder campus are the Regent Drive underpass near the Fiske Planetarium and the Center for Community, a massive new building that now houses most student service offices plus a state-of-art dining hall that feeds thousands of students, faculty and staff a day.
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John Meyer (Bus’83) and Dan Dobison (Aero’83) were paired up to fly together for the first time on a trip out of Southern California where both of them are based with American Airlines.
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The wonderfully detailed Baker Hall has been home to thousands of alums, as it was originally designed by Charles Klauder and G.H. Huntington as a men’s residence hall in 1937. During World War II it served as a dorm for U.S. servicemen who were learning foreign languages such as Japanese.
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Charles Walter Wooten (MEdu’65) of Broomfield, Colo., wrote to us after having this photo taken of him during a visit to Boulder and prompted by the Contest Corner quiz about the Pac-12’s members in the July BuffAlum Notes.
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Norlin award winner Dick Burridge has generously donated $2.5 million to help establish an endowed chair in finance at the Leeds School of Business.
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Law dean and professor David Getches died at home on Tuesday, July 5 after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. He will be missed greatly by the CU family and the many lives he touched.
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Koenig Alumni Center provides a memorable location for a wedding, rehearsal dinner or reunion. Please contact Carolyn Paul for additional information at 303-492-2279 or 800-492-7743, e-mail here.

Information about Koenig Alumni Center is here.
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University of Colorado Athletic Hall of Fame member Billy Lewis (PE’60), the school’s first African-American varsity basketball player, has passed away at the age of 72. He died in his Sarasota, Fla., home on June 14.
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A great time was had by all at the Directors Club Summer meeting in Vail, June 10-12, 2011! We’d be pleased to see YOU in our next photo, having fun at our upcoming event on Sept. 10 at the CU vs. Cal pregame party in Koenig Alumni Center’s backyard garden. Game time is TBA. Please check our webpage for details in the near future.
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Return to campus to celebrate your CU pride and cheer on the Buffs Oct. 22.
This year we will be playing Oregon. Check out the Attend the Alumni Association’s pregame party 2.5 hours before the game. Learn more here.
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So goes the headline of a very interesting, thoughtful and sympathetic story about CU head football coach Jon Embree (Comm’88) by Kyle Ringo in this past Friday’s Boulder Camera. He says, “…during his first six months on the job, [Embree] has impressed many CU fans, faculty members, staffers and the men who hired him as being just the sort of CEO the program needed.”
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Ten University of Colorado Boulder students have received Fulbright grants to pursue teaching, research and graduate studies abroad during the 2011-12 academic year, a record for the university.
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An international research team led by Japan and including the University of Colorado Boulder may have taken a significant step in discovering why matter trumped antimatter at the time of the Big Bang.
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Dalton Trumbo Fountain, constructed in 1964 just to the north of the UMC, was dedicated to CU alumnus Dalton Trumbo (A&S’29) in 1993. Trumbo was a famous Hollywood screenwriter but became a victim of blacklisting during the McCarthy era.
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For several years now Mary Florman Villalba (Art’71) has been involved in efforts to save America’s flagship, the 990-foot SS United States. She’s on the executive board of the SS United States Conservancy, and proudly writes that the organization was able to purchase the ship earlier this year, which was built in 1952 and is still the fastest ship ever to sail.
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