March 2011 Colorado edition

CU Voices

Macky and me

By Carlton Stoiber (A&S’64, Law’69)

We know we owe the crown jewel of the Boulder campus – Macky Auditorium – to the generosity of Andrew J. Macky (1834-1907) who arrived in Boulder in 1859 during the Colorado gold rush. For me, Macky has many personal connections. Read the story

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Featured alumni event

Attend your 50-year reunion

Don’t miss a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity Thursday, May 5 and Friday, May 6 to reminisce with your classmates from the 1961 graduating class and return to the beautiful CU-Boulder campus. Those who graduated from CU prior to 1961 are invited to the Golden Anniversary Club luncheon on May 6. Here’s the scoop.

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Athletics

Get a first look at Embree’s team

Don’t miss new head coach Jon Embree (Comm’88) for the first time at the annual CU Football Spring Game on Saturday, April 9. Go here for practice reports and updates.

Resources for a win-win job search

The Career Services go-to person for alumni is Lea Alvarado; please contact her for information about the following events in Boulder, or go to the alumni events calendar.

Thursday, March 17, 6-9 p.m.: Closing the Deal… Win-Win Interviewing and Negotiating (free)
Wednesday, March 30, 6-8 p.m.: Alumni Networking Group – Being Your Own Boss panel (free) Come hear how our panel of experts have started their own companies.

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Experience the Conference on World Affairs

One of the dynamic duets at this April’s Conference on World Affairs will be Shodekeh and the Western poet Hal Cannon. Shodekeh is a the official “hip hop ambassador” of Baltimore and founding director of Embody: A Festival & Series of Vocal Arts. Cannon is founding director of the Western Folklife Center and the Cowboy Poetry Gathering. These are the sorts of fascinating people who will push the envelope and captivate you at the April 4-8 Conference on World Affairs on campus.

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CU in the news

Big band lovers cheered by acquisition

The Glenn Miller (A&S ex’26) Archive at the CU-Boulder American Music Research Center has acquired one of the world’s most significant collections of Big Band Era recordings and memorabilia. Read more and watch a video.

Win CU Stuff!

In the fiscal year 2009 NASA was CU-Boulder’s top-funding research agency, and CU received more research dollars from NASA than any other public university. The amount CU received from NASA was A. 109 million; B. $64 million; C. $75 million. You may find the answer here. The prize for a randomly-selected winner is a BPA-free University of Colorado Boulder water bottle. Congratulations to last month’s winner, Debbie Lose-Kelly (Acct’82) of Jefferson City, Mo., who knew that the Boulder Chautauqua opened in 1898.

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Scholarship recipients engaged

CU-Boulder’s Puksta Scholars program creates a community of scholarship recipients engaged in a service project. Funded by the Puksta Education Foundation, each recipient implements a civic engagement or community service project on campus or in the community. Here are two Puksta scholars speaking on video about their projects and how the scholarship has affected their lives.

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