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Faster than a Speeding Bullet

June 1, 2012

Sound travels at approximately 760 miles per hour. What can travel faster than that?

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The Bear Who Fell to Earth

June 1, 2012

A 280-pound bear climbed a tree next to Williams Village at the end of April before being tranquilized and relocated 50 miles west of Boulder.

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Sink Pizza Fuels Presidential Speech

June 1, 2012

For the first time in 58 years, a sitting U.S. president gave a speech on campus this spring.

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Forever Buff Families in a Cord

March 1, 2012

As part of the Forever Buffs initiative, the CU-Boulder Alumni Association began a new tradition by providing “legacy cords†to graduating students whose family members are CU alums.

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Clearing the Air babyÖ±²¥app 4/20

March 1, 2012

Having thousands of people arrive on campus for events enables the university to showcase its best. Yet there is one unofficial event attracting thousands of people the university and many of its students would love to extinguish.

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Online Dating Too Revealing?

March 1, 2012

A significant number of online dating sites may reveal more personal information than users realize, according to research done by CU business professor Kai Larsen and his students last fall.

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Hollywood Screenwriter Vindicated

March 1, 2012

Audrey Hepburn’s role as a headstrong princess leads her to fall in love in the 1953 movie Roman Holiday. But screenwriter Dalton Trumbo’s relationship with the film was seemingly nonexistent as he was excluded from its credits until this year.

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Buffs No. 1 in Peace Corps, Again!

March 1, 2012

What do 112 CU-Boulder alums have in common? They are all Peace Corps volunteers who helped CU-Boulder become first in the nation for the second consecutive year in Peace Corps participation.

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Finding Yourself on Campus

March 1, 2012

It’s hard to keep track of all our new academic and administrative buildings in this era of major construction that rivals the expansion during the 1960s.

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It's Not All Rocket Science

March 1, 2012

CU-Boulder was awarded an astonishing $359 million in research funding in 2011. It is the No. 1 NASA-funded public university.

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