Jenny Barringer, who set six NCAA records as a senior, was given the inaugural Bowerman award, which recognizes the outstanding collegiate women鈥檚 track and field athlete in the nation.
Men鈥檚 golf coach Roy Edwards announced that CU鈥檚 new fall invitational tournament has been named in honor of Mark Simpson, the longtime CU coach who passed away in 2005 after battling cancer.
Assistant professor Najeeb Jan of geography moved from the United Kingdom to Pakistan as a teenager, creating experiences that play out today in his classes from 鈥淗uman and Political Geography鈥 to 鈥淧olitical Islam.鈥
Elizabeth Graham Demmon鈥檚 life has been straight out of a history book. The Boulder resident attended Mapleton Elementary School as a little girl, watched the Boulder Courthouse burn down and attended CU during the Great Depression.