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The University of Colorado at Boulder (CU or CU-Boulder) is the flagship university of the University of Colorado system. With its unique Tuscan sandstone architecture and its location nestled under the Flatiron rock formations of Boulder, the campus is considered to be one of the most beautiful in the United States.CU has produced a number of astronauts, Nobel Prize laureates, and respected academics, but also has a reputation as a party school. In 2003, the Princeton Review awarded it as the top party school in the nation (USA), out of 351 entrants. CU dropped to number 9 in 2004.
CU is home of the Alferd Packer Grill, supposedly the only campus eatery in America named for a convicted cannibal.
1 Athletics
Sports teams at the school are called Buffaloes. CU participates in the NCAA's Division I (I-A for football) as a member of the Northern Division of the Big Twelve Conference. The school mascot is Ralphie the Buffalo and the school colors are Silver and GoldFor alternative meanings, see gold (disambiguation Gold is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Au ( L. aurum and atomic number 79. A soft, shiny, yellow, heavy, malleable, ductile (trivalent and univalent) transition metal, gold d, but are usually represented by Black and Gold.
CU has won national championships in both men's and women's cross crountry, skiing, and football. Conference championships have also been won in football and soccer.
In football, CU enjoys major rivalries with Colorado State UniversityColorado State University is a public land grant institution of higher learning located in Fort Collins, Colorado in the United States. It was founded in 1870 as the Agricultural College of Colorado, and received its first students in 1879. The current en and NebraskaUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln is a state-supported institution of higher learning located in Lincoln, Nebraska, and the largest campus in the University of Nebraska system. The university was founded in 1869 under provisions of the federal Morrill Act.. The annual CU-CSU football game, dubbed the "Rocky Mountain Showdown," has been played in recent years in DenverFor other cities named Denver see Denver (disambiguation). Denver is the largest city and capital of the state of Colorado, United States of America. It is the largest city along the Front Range and forms the heart of the Denver Metropolitan Area. The cit at Mile High StadiumMile High Stadium Location Denver, Colorado Opened 1948 Closed 2001 Capacity 76,273 Owned By City and County of Denver (Parks and Recreation Department) Architect: ????? Dimensions: Left Left-Center Center Right-Center Right 335 ft (102 m) 366 ft (112 m) (and subsequently INVESCO Field at Mile HighINVESCO Field at Mile High is a sporting event and events stadium in Denver, Colorado. INVESCO Field at Mile High replaced the identically sized, but commercially obsolete Mile High Stadium (named for the fact that Denver is approximately one mile from se). Colorado and Nebraska traditionally finish their respective seasons in a nationally televised confrontation on the Friday following ThanksgivingThanksgiving is a holiday celebrated in much of North America, generally observed as an expression of gratitude, usually to God. The most common view of its origin is that it was to give thanks to God for the bounty of the autumn harvest. In the United St.
2 Notable CU students, alumni, and staff
- Loren Acton, NASA astronaut
- Patrick Baudry, CNES astronaut
- James Barton, Co-founder of TiVo
- Bob Beauprez, U.S. Representative
- Petr Beckmann, physicist, engineer
- Chauncey Billups, member of the Detroit Pistons of the NBA
- Stan Brakhage, filmmaker
- Vance D. Brand, NASA astronaut
- Scott Carpenter, NASA astronaut
- Kalpana Chawla, Columbia astronaut
- Lynne Cheney, wife of U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney
- Sarvadaman Chowla, mathematician
- Judy Collins, American folk musician
- Eric Allin Cornell, physicist, Nobel laureate
- Takao Doi, NASA astronaut
- Ed Dorn, poet
- Samuel T. Durrance, NASA astronaut
- Larry Esposito, discoverer of Saturn's fourth ring
- George Gamow, physicist and cosmologist
- Dave Grusin, composer
- John Herrington, NASA astronaut
- Richard Hieb, NASA astronaut
- Katie Hnida, football place kicker
- Hale Irwin , golf star
- Marsha Ivins, NASA astronaut
- Deborah S. Jin, physicist
- Alan Kay, computer scientist, Turing Award winner
- William Lee Knous, state Supreme Court judge and state legislator
- Herbert Kroemer, physicist
- Larry Linville, actor
- John M. Lounge, NASA astronaut
- Christopher Meloni, actor
- Richard McCray , astrophysicist
- Glenn Miller, band leader
- James Naismith, inventor of basketball
- George Nelson, NASA astronaut
- Ellison Onizuka, Challenger astronaut
- Trey Parker, co-creator of South Park
- William Pierce, physicist, white separatist
- Robert Redford, actor
- Stuart Roosa, NASA astronaut
- Roy Romer, former Colorado governor
- Ronald M. Sega, NASA astronaut
- Paul Soldner, artist
- Matt Stone, co-creator of South Park
- Jack Swigert, Apollo 13 astronaut
- Dalton Trumbo, writer
- Debra Thomas , Olympic figure skater
- Joan Van Ark, actress
- James Voss, NASA astronaut
- Byron White, associate justice of the Supreme Court
- Leslie Whittington, Georgetown professor and Sep. 11 victim
- Carl Wieman, physicist, Nobel laureate
- Steve Wozniak, personal computer pioneer
- Thomas R. Rech , chemist, Nobel laureate
