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Steve Ells vividly recalls the day in 2000 when his eyes were opened about factory farming.

When he received the offer in December to become the Â鶹ӰԺ’s 24th head football coach, Jon Embree was prepared. Oh, was he ever prepared.

Jennie Dorris takes classical music to the coffee shop.

Fifteen percent of pregnant women experience depression. A CU professor seeks solutions.

Sportsman Tred Barta has overcome a paralyzing stroke to make his hunting and fishing show more popular than ever.

Professor Frank Barnes weighs in on cell phones’ possibly damaging effects.

How did Dave Zanetell guide the construction of the Western hemisphere’s longest concrete arch bridge?

Â鶹ӰԺ's biggest fashion crimes.

Reasons Â鶹ӰԺites stay so fit.

When Rod Falk’s middle school students create their own arcade classics like Frogger, Pac-Man and Space Invaders in his computer lab, they develop critical thinking skills.

Amid a limping economy, CU alumni and friends rallied to support the university, giving a record-breaking $213.2 million during the 12 months ending June 30, 2011.

When this year’s 5,600 new students arrived on campus, many had already networked with students, alumni and CU parents this summer.

In June your Coloradan magazine won first place from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, one of the world’s largest nonprofit educational associations.

Your stomach bacteria could help doctors prescribe personalized medicine for you in the future, according to a study co-authored by CU-Â鶹ӰԺ professor Rob Knight.

As the country’s final space shuttle soared into space in July to heightened levels of excitement on the Florida coast, bone loss was the subject of one of five experiments CU-Â鶹ӰԺ’s Bioserve Space Technologies sent aloft on Atlantis.

The Fall 2011 column from President Bruce D. Benson.

Sports stats from the Fall 2011 issue.

Buff sports questions from the Fall 2011 issue.

CU and state and local officials celebrated the university’s entrance into the Pac-12 Conference on July 1.

The basketball and volleyball teams moved into their $10.8 million practice facility attached to the north end of the Coors Events Center this summer.

Mark Wetmore has been head coach of the CU cross country and track & field teams since 1995, winning five national cross country championships — three men’s and two women’s.

If you had taken a boat up Washington’s Nisqually River with CU law dean David Getches and headed west down a muddy creek, you might have seen the remains of a 100-foot Douglas fir tree along the banks.

A popular custom originating in the 19th century, dance cards resulted from a woman’s social dilemma of choosing dance partners at parties.

After more than 9,000 flight hours and 60 years as a pilot, James Patton Jr. landed at the end of his career where he first took off — on the plane of his childhood dreams.

Kevin Costner isn’t a sports scientist, but he played one on the big screen. Allen Lim, on the other hand, is the real deal, and Costner can take some credit for that.

Sarah Welton loved to eat and camp, so she decided to co-found PackitGourmet.

Billy Lewis, the school’s first African-American varsity basketball player, passed away in his Sarasota, Fla., home on June 14. He was 72.

A personal essay from the Fall 2011 issue.

In every issue we feature professional-quality photography by alumni or students on these two pages.

Center spread from the Fall 2011 issue.