Old CU
Established by women students passionate about athletics, the WAA strove to promote interest in women’s 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 “The Voice of the Buffaloes” for 42 seasons
In 1968, Sandy Hildner became CU’s first woman Olympian after training with the men’s ski team under coach Bob Beattie.
In the summers of 1958 and 1960, CU Boulder’s 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.
