Campus News Briefs – Summer 2016
Digits
Butterflies
4
Life stages for a butterfly
4/9
Date year-long butterfly
exhibition opened at CU
Museum of Natural History
300
Butterfly species in
Colorado (approx.)
1996
Year Colorado hairstreak
butterfly became state
insect
197
Species recorded in
Boulder County
20,000
Species in the world
3,000+
Miles some monarch
butterflies travel from the
U.S. to Mexico for winter
Making Tuition More Predictable
Planningfor the cost of a CU-Boulder education will be easierfor Colorado residents following the recent adoptionof a new tuition and mandatory fees guarantee.Starting in fall 2016, tuition and fees for incomingfreshmen who are Colorado residents will rise modestly,then remain fixed through the four-year period.Subsequent incoming classes will also see an initialincrease, then no change through four years.University leaders say the new arrangementbetter allows students to plan for costs and CUto forecast revenues.The Board of Regents approved the plan in the spring.A four-year tuition guarantee was already in placefor nonresident undergraduates. Graduate studenttuition still will be reviewed each year..
Heard Around Campus
"Our goal has definitely been to create a very complex picture of Boulder..."— Graduate student Rebecca Zinner (MFA’18)in the Daily Camera, speaking of a digital time capsuleabout CU-Boulder created by students in the Collegeof Media, Communication and Information.
Betting Big on the Saxophone
CU-Boulder music professorCarter Pann was a finalistfor the 2016 Pulitzer Prizein music for his work “TheMechanics: Six from theShop Floor.” The Pulitzer jury describedthe six-part saxophone compositionas “a suite that imaginesits four saxophonists as mechanicsengaged in a rhythmicinterplay of precision and messinessthat is by turns bubbly,pulsing, dreamy and nostalgic.”The prize ultimately wentto composer Henry Threadgill,but Pann is riding high anyway.“This is a real vote of confidence,”he said. Read the full story here.
Photo by© iStock/Cesare Andrea Ferrari