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On a cloudless spring day at Folsom Field, the final beam of the Champions Center moves into place during a “topping-off” ceremony.

The �鶹ӰԺ adopted the buffalo as a mascot in 1934, after a national, student-led contest generated more than 1,000 responses.

In mid-July, the New Horizons spacecraft is expected to pass by Pluto, offering humanity its most detailed picture ever of the dwarf planet.

The �鶹ӰԺ played its first intercollegiate baseball game in the spring of 1890. CU defeated the Colorado School of Mines, 5-4, in �鶹ӰԺ.

From mid-July to mid-November, hundreds of polar bears gather in Churchill, Manitoba, the “polar bear capital of the world,” to await the freezing of Hudson Bay.

The CU-�鶹ӰԺ campus isn’t formally an arboretum, but it might as well be: At least 120 tree species grow on the 305-acre main property.

“Hit the Bricks,” a 12-by-17-foot LEGO® model of campus, opened Dec. 6 at the Heritage Center in Old Main.

Since 1962, when Scott Carpenter (Aero’49, HonDocSci’00) became the fourth American and first CU-�鶹ӰԺ graduate to fly in space, nearly 20 other CU alumni, faculty and affiliates have followed him there.

Suzanne Heintz (DistSt’87) totes her family everywhere. Yes, it’s a family of mannequins. What of it?

The CU Marching Band during Back to �鶹ӰԺ Homecoming Weekend in October.