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Peter Rock is among scores of students whose tuition costs have been reduced thanks to donors and among the scholarship recipients and scholarship donors who recently shared lunch and conversation.

One visit to a hospital operating room was all it took for Alex Meininger to choose a career path.

The Beatles split up, but the Rolling Stones were still packing Wembley’s Empire Pool. This was London in the early 1970s, and Bud Shark had come to make art.

The award will be available to anyone who teaches at the university, whether a full professor, a student teacher, a graduate assistant or an adjunct professor.

Higher education has always been important to Esmeralda Castillo-Cobian, an ethnic studies major at the �鶹ӰԺ. But coming from a low-income family, she sometimes felt that college was out of reach.

Skim milk was 10 cents a gallon, and spaghetti was cheap. “So, we had a lot of skim milk, and we ate a lot of spaghetti”—with no sauce.

Believing that CU �鶹ӰԺ had helped lay the foundation of his success, Jack Hyatt supported the university for nearly five decades. Following his death, that legacy continues with bequests to the law school and the College of Arts and Sciences.

Many scholarships go to the most gifted students: the smartest, the most talented and, of course, the fastest and strongest. CU �鶹ӰԺ’s Robert Wyant Scholarship is granted to students who might be none of the above, but somehow achieve academic success while overcoming the challenges of disability.

Outgoing Associate Dean for the Arts and Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences, Valerio Ferme, and his spouse, Giorgio Corda, a professor of Italian at CU �鶹ӰԺ, have established the Andermarch Cicogna Endowed Scholarship Fund in honor of their mothers.

Jesse Kramer (Physics '78) is combatting sparse resources by creating the Jesse Kramer Endowed Undergraduate Travel Award in the Physics Department.