Old CU
- Established by women students passionate about athletics, the WAA strove to promote interest in womenβs sports.
- CU fine arts professor Muriel Sibell-Wolle visited and sketched over a thousand mining towns in the American West. She is now known as one of the first and most prolific ghost town guidebook writers in the nation.
- Zoom in on a twentieth-century miniature English-Dutch dictionary in CU's Heritage Collection.
- Larry Zimmer served as βThe Voice of the Buffaloesβ for 42 seasons
- In 1968, Sandy Hildner became CUβs first woman Olympian after training with the menβs ski team under coach Bob Beattie.
- In the summers of 1958 and 1960, CU ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅βs first curator of anthropology, Joe Ben Wheat, excavated the Olsen-Chubbuck site, an area near Kit Carson, Colorado, that contained remains of bison dating to 8200 B.C.
- In the late 1950s, a tiny diner on The Hill called the Pied Piper was a hangout for CU students.
- In early 2024, work will begin on a new structural restoration project to benefit the building.