Campus News
<p>Civil engineering professor Bernard Amadei’s work extends far beyond the classroom since he helped found the international humanitarian nonprofit Engineers Without Borders-USA in 2001.</p>
<p>Former ethnic studies professor Ward Churchill was unlawfully fired from the University of Colorado for expressing his political beliefs, a Denver jury decided April 2. But the jury only awarded the professor $1 in damages.</p>
<p>Scores of CU community members gathered in Old Main on May 6 for the 79th Annual Alumni Awards Ceremony. Every year the Alumni Association gives out some of the university’s most prestigious awards.</p>
<p>Broaden your Buff network by posting your company’s job openings and internship opportunities in the Career Services job database and in the Alumni Association’s Forever Buffs Network, a social and professional networking site.</p>
<p>Mike West, director of education for CU Biodiesel, has taught everyone from postgraduate students to second-graders how to brew their own biodiesel, showing how simple it is to create cleaner, more sustainable fuel from waste.</p>
<p>Developing sensing and imaging systems in everything from cars to medical equipment may be lines of work for future alumni of CU’s new graduate program in computational optical sensing and imaging.</p>
<p>In November Colorado voters elected two first-generation Americans — also among the youngest ever elected — to serve on the CU Board of Regents, making it the most diverse board ever. </p>
<p>After spending his life making maps of Colorado’s Front Range, professor emeritus William Braddock now appears in them.</p>
<p>From iPods and Crocs to coffee mugs, it seems everything’s about customizing to your own taste, and junior Jesse Saba has brought this trend to CU classrooms.</p>
<p>They’re in company with this year’s Grammy nominees Coldplay and Radiohead. ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ’s resident string quartet, the <a href="http://www.takacsquartet.com/">Takács Quartet</a> was nominated for a Grammy this year in the category of best chamber music performance.</p>