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On Oct. 12, 2019, with a time of 1:59:40, Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya became the first person to complete a marathon in under two hours.

Fifty years ago, on April 22, 1970, CU Â鶹ӰԺ became the first university in the nation to open a student-led Environmental Center. The day coincided with the nation’s inaugural Earth Day.

The restaurant lineup on The Hill changes nearly as fast as the Colorado seasons.

Record-breaking Colorado summer heat, including the hottest temperature ever recorded in the state didn’t delay winter at CU. Â鶹ӰԺ saw more than 26 inches of snow in October and nearly 30 in November, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Since 2013, weekly CU cooking classes — Ralphie’s Cooking Basics — have aimed to teach students the fundamentals of meal preparing.

Hale was the first science building on campus and at one point housed all the sciences, a small museum and the School of Law. The building was named after the second university president, Horace Hale.

If it’s icky, slimy or smelly, it’s fair game.

In August, more than 700 CU Â鶹ӰԺ students moved into the university’s newest and largest residence hall, Williams Village East.

It wasn’t much to look at, but it was the start of a CU Â鶹ӰԺ institution. The first issue of this magazine appeared as The Colorado Alumnus in May 1911.

The Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences includes a bioastronautics lab, a payload operations center with a real-time communications link to the International Space Station and an indoor drone testing space.