When he received the offer in December to become the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder’s 24th head football coach, Jon Embree was prepared. Oh, was he ever prepared.
When Rod Falk’s middle school students create their own arcade classics like Frogger, Pac-Man and Space Invaders in his computer lab, they develop critical thinking skills.
Amid a limping economy, Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ alumni and friends rallied to support the university, giving a record-breaking $213.2 million during the 12 months ending June 30, 2011.
In June your Coloradan magazine won first place from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, one of the world’s largest nonprofit educational associations.
Your stomach bacteria could help doctors prescribe personalized medicine for you in the future, according to a study co-authored by Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ-Boulder professor Rob Knight.
As the country’s final space shuttle soared into space in July to heightened levels of excitement on the Florida coast, bone loss was the subject of one of five experiments Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ-Boulder’s Bioserve Space Technologies sent aloft on Atlantis.
Mark Wetmore has been head coach of the Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ cross country and track & field teams since 1995, winning five national cross country championships — three men’s and two women’s.
If you had taken a boat up Washington’s Nisqually River with Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ law dean David Getches and headed west down a muddy creek, you might have seen the remains of a 100-foot Douglas fir tree along the banks.
After more than 9,000 flight hours and 60 years as a pilot, James Patton Jr. landed at the end of his career where he first took off — on the plane of his childhood dreams.
Kevin Costner isn’t a sports scientist, but he played one on the big screen. Allen Lim, on the other hand, is the real deal, and Costner can take some credit for that.
