Donors
CU Rocket Project students Merle Reisbeck, left, and Russell Nidey look on as a colleague works on a biaxial pointing control. Photo courtesy CU/LASP. Rocket-pointing control was Western Hemisphere’s first major home-grown space technology; author
Caitlin Epple and Kyle Metcalf were bursting with energy, love and promise. Now, those photographs are a testament to two lives lived very well and done too soon.
Mom who’s been there sets up scholarship for survivors of childhood cancerPatty Feist recalls with perfect clarity the call, the date, the time and the message that upended her life.It was April 17, 1997, at 10:45 a.m. She was on the job, working as
In the fall of 1980, Ken Bickers was working in a Washington, D.C., political office. He’d come to the nation’s capital as part of a not-for-profit internship program, and the experience augured his career.
Soon after the tragic 2008 automobile death of Longmont senior Kyle Metcalf and UC Denver freshman Caitlin Epple, much of the Longmont High School community was in shock—including Larkin Poynton, a close friend of both of them.After a while, he and
CU alum Josette Sheeran, the executive director of the U.N. World Food Programme, is on a mission to fight world hunger one cup at a time.
Why do older people emerge from, say, hip surgery and an infection with impaired cognitive functions? And what if chronic and enhanced pain could be treated with a single injection of gene therapy?On a recent morning, an auditorium full of older
Amid CU-«Ƶ’s storied progress in leading-edge fields such as biotech and energy, the university’s Classics Department (incorporating the study of ancient Greek and Latin, history, and archaeology) garners fewer headlines—and fewer of the
Alex McGuiggan had a passion for life, poetry, music, ‘my mountains’ and friends; a new scholarship in his honor aims to keep his memory, and promise, alive
Carroll B. Christman’s landing in the world of donor development was “completely accidental,” she says. It’s become a happy accident.This fall, Christman was named senior director of development for the University of Colorado Foundation, the