Since Jimmie Heuga (PolSci’73) founded Can Do Multiple Sclerosis in 1984, his positive can do philosophy has helped thousands of people living with multiple sclerosis. Can Do MS would like to honor Jimmie’s birthday and legacy by encouraging you to do something you can do on 9/22. Share your pledge on our Facebook page.
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A new agreement also provides DISH with exclusive category sponsorship for Pac-12 athletic programs. The sponsorship includes stadium signage and logo rights with each of the member schools.
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Seventeen-month old, Camille Borger, daughter of Zach Borger (Comm’01) and Lorna McBride Borger (Music, Math ex’99) of Austin, Texas, works on her cheerleading routine for the next CU game. Says great aunt, Deb Johnson (Hist’78), a staff member at the CU-Boulder Alumni Association, “We like to start ‘em young.”
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More than 5,000 freshman students attended convocation on Friday, Aug. 23rd. Leaving the Coors Events Center, the newly-minted Forever Buffs were cheered by fraternities, sororities and Alumni Association staff and volunteers as they proceeded through the Forever Buffs archway and onto Farrand Field for Global Jam. Flickr photoset.
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Gone are the days of searching for your school’s game on television, or worrying about whether they’re even on TV at all. In a new era that will revolutionize televised college sports, Pac-12 Networks launches on August 15 and will provide unprecedented coverage of a wide variety of sports across the Pac-12 Conference.
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The University of Colorado men’s basketball team is traveling across the Atlantic Ocean for a five-game, 10-day European trip that will take the Buffaloes to Paris (France), Antwerp (Belgium) and Amsterdam (The Netherlands).
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For the second consecutive Olympic Games, CU-Boulder alums and students are making a splash. In the finals of the 3,000-meter steeplechase is senior Emma Coburn (Psych’01), who advanced on Saturday morning. She follows in the footsteps of Buff Jenny (Barringer) Simpson (Econ, PolSci’09), who finished ninth in the event at the 2008 Beijing Games.
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Shop with us and get cash back! With online retailers like REI, CheapTickets, Target and Macy’s, the Forever Buffs Retail Benefits shopping portal will pay you cash back, and the Alumni Association gets a matching donation. Cash back? You heard right. Learn more, register and shop.
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There will be six Buffs competing in the Summer Games in London. There have been almost 80 Buffs who have competed in the Olympics, including former CU skiers and Olympians Billy Kidd (Econ’69) and Sandy Shellworth Hildner (A&S’67), pictured here. Learn more about CU’s stellar Olympians at the Heritage Center.
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To celebrate our Forever Buffs living abroad, the CU-Boulder Alumni Association invites you to an exclusive event for alumni, parents and friends of CU in London on Sept. 15 at 6:30 p.m.
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CU alumni can receive $10 off Dress Circle and Orchestra seating, so catch a play at Colorado Shakespeare Festival this summer!
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Alumni Association staff member, Melanie Ricci (Comm’90) showed her Forever Buffs spirit at altitude as she rode Rollins Pass (Boulder to Winter Park) with her spouse and CU’s head triathlon coach, Mike Ricci.
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Cassandra Hickman graduated in May and sent us a photo of her father and her holding up their family tree. She is a fifth-generation CU grad. All extended members who graduated are CU grads, including her great-great grandmother Evalyn Barney who studied education in 1885!
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Mark Kuta (MBA’87), his wife Flavia Kuta, a UC Denver grad and their two kids stand in front of St. Peters in Rome, Italy. After spending three weeks in Europe (Germany, Austria & Italy) wearing a CU T-shirt every third or fourth day, Mark says he can vouch for the CU brand as around 10 people recognized the CU logo. “Go Buffs,” he writes.
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Former Alumni Association student worker Mike Aguilar works for USAID and is based in Washington D.C. Mike was in China working teaching conflict resolution techniques at a Chinese university during a three-week period. This photo is one of him and his students. “Very fascinating place that is China,” he writes.
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Represent CU at Coors Field on Saturday, Aug. 18 at 6:10 p.m. when the Colorado Rockies play the Miami Marlins. This game is an attendance competition among Colorado universities, including five-time winner CSU, so let’s fill the stadium with CU pride and beat the Rams in attendance!
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Hit the road with us this fall to cheer on the Buffs as they travel to Arizona, Washington, California and Oregon. Our spectacular away-game festivities are the place to be before every away Pac-12 game.
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The High Park Fire in Larimer county is still burning and smoke can be seen over sixty miles away. Last estimate was 83,205 acres burnt and over 248 structures damaged or destroyed. More than 1,000 personnel are currently involved, most of them firefighters from around the country. The fire was 45 percent contained as of June 25.
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Are you graduating, and would like to keep your colorado.edu email address? It’s all set up for you, and best of all its free! Keep your Buff pride as you apply to jobs and beyond with a CU email address.

More information on e-mail for life.

 
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Seven University of Colorado Boulder graduate students and alumni will go abroad during the 2012-13 academic year to pursue a variety of studies, research and teaching projects as grantees of the prestigious Fulbright program.
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A group of CU alumni have an independent feature film playing in the Breckenridge Festival of Film starting on Saturday, June 9 at 6pm: “Born & Raised”.

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The CU Boulder’s volleyball and basketball practice facility has received a LEED platinum rating from the United States Green Building Council. It is the first LEED-certified athletic facility on the CU-Boulder campus and one of only two platinum-rated athletic facilities in the Pac-12. LEED certification is a U.S. benchmark for sustainable design and construction.
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Today’s giant wind turbines — already over 100 meters high at hub height, with 60-meter blades — require continuing adjustments to respond to the ever-changing wind conditions to work at maximum efficiency. That’s where CU-Boulder professor Lucy Pao of electrical and computer engineering comes in. Pao is developing technology that can detect shifts in wind speed to reduce excessive loads on
massive turbines.
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On May 24, 1962, University of Colorado Boulder alumnus Scott Carpenter lifted off from Earth in NASA’s Aurora 7 space capsule mounted atop a Mercury-Atlas rocket at Cape Canaveral, Fla., swiftly climbing to roughly 165 miles in altitude. The NASA astronaut and his capsule were swept into Earth’s orbit, eventually speeding around the planet at 17,000 miles per hour.
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Cancer is the country’s No. 2 killer, following heart disease. Professor Tin Tin Su is working to develop powerful new tools in the fight against the deadly disease.
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The Class of 1962 poses for a group photo in front of Norlin Library. The class gift was a donation to the Center for Community.
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CU-Boulder’s Alumni Association grew by 6,237 members today! Now you see why our mascot is so big – he needs to be to lead a herd like that! Congratulations to all our graduates and their families – Forever Buffs!
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McMorris, an original Rockies owner and a man who will be forever remembered as the savior of Major League Baseball in Colorado, died Tuesday morning. He was 71.
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As part of the Forever Buffs initiative, the CU-Boulder Alumni Association started a new tradition by providing “legacy cords” to graduating students whose family members are CU alums. The black and gold cords are worn with the student’s graduation gown to recognize his or her tie to a CU legacy family.
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Dr. William M. King receives an American flag from congressman Jared Polis during a celebration to mark his retirement from CU. Dr. King has been at CU for 40 years and judging from the size of the crowd and the comments made on his behalf, a Force in CU’s ethnic community.
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Ken Jackson (DistSt’73) commutes eight miles down the Grand Canyon by horse to deliver prenatal care to Native American women.
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The University of Colorado Boulder will hold its spring graduation ceremony on Friday, May 11, beginning at 8:30 a.m. at Folsom Field. The ceremony will honor candidates for 6,237 degrees, including 4,830 bachelor’s degrees, 994 master’s degrees, 162 law degrees and 251 doctoral degrees for spring and summer.
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The Alumni Association is honored to have members of the Class of 2012 as student workers in our department! A small ceremony was held to formally thank them for their hard work and dedication.
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Late Sunday afternoon May 20 the entire mid- and western US will see a “bite” taken out of the sun as the moon moves in front of it – the best solar eclipse the US has seen in more than ten years. And on the afternoon of June 5 the planet Venus will cross in front of the sun, something that won’t be seen again for a century!
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Skipping naps might not be a good idea, says CU-Boulder sleep researcher Monique LeBourgeois whose research suggests long-term loss of sleep can heighten a toddler’s anxiety.
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Forever Buff Don McLean (Bus’77) has designed a new CU-themed ski – that features beautiful inlaid wood designs of the Flatirons and the CU athletic logo. He’s about to announce them to the world and he gave the Alumni Association a sneak peek!
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In celebration of Colorado Architecture Month, the CU Heritage Center has teamed up with the CU-Boulder CAP Environmental Design program for a new exhibit, Designing for People and Place: Sustainable & Affordable Housing for the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, opening Monday, April 23.
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Your CU degree is a proud accomplishment. Display your diploma with an image of the Flatirons to strike up conversations with present and future Buffs. Learn more here.
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Join the always entertaining and enlightening Alan Nelson, CU senior grounds specialist, on the Tree Walk to learn about the campus arboretum. As senior ground specialist, Nelson has been conducting this popular tour for more than 20 years.
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