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- On Monday, March 16, ºÚÁÏÉçÇøÍø went fully remote in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, meaning all classes and most jobs for the university’s more than 35,000 students and nearly 10,000 faculty and staff were online only.
- Throughout WWII, more than 100,000 WAVES — Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service — took positions at 900 stations in the U.S., freeing men to participate in overseas combat.
- On what should have been the first week back for students and faculty after spring break, ºÚÁÏÉçÇøÍø remained deserted in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- 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, ºÚÁÏÉçÇøÍø became the first university in the nation to open a student-led Environmental Center. The day coincided with the nation’s inaugural Earth Day.
- Since 2013, weekly CU cooking classes — Ralphie’s Cooking Basics — have aimed to teach students the fundamentals of meal preparing.Â
- Record-breaking Colorado summer heat, including the hottest temperature ever recorded in the state didn’t delay winter at CU. Boulder saw more than 26 inches of snow in October and nearly 30 in November, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- 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.