University of Colorado Boulder

The University of Colorado Boulder, commonly called CU Boulder, CU or simply Colorado, is a public research university in Boulder, Colorado, in the United States, chartered on 14 March 1876 when the Colorado territorial legislature passed an amendment providing public money for a university at Boulder.科罗拉多大学博尔德分校通称 CU Boulder、CU 或「科罗拉多」，是美国科罗拉多州博尔德的一所公立研究型大学，1876 年 3 月 14 日由科罗拉多领地议会通过拨款修正案而在博尔德创立。

Because it was founded five months before Colorado was admitted to the Union as the thirty-eighth state on 1 August 1876, the university is older than the state it serves and is the flagship campus of the University of Colorado system, which also includes the University of Colorado Denver, the University of Colorado Colorado Springs and the Anschutz Medical Campus.它比 1876 年 8 月 1 日作为第三十八个州加入联邦的科罗拉多州早出生五个月，因此校龄长于州龄，并是科罗拉多大学系统的旗舰校区，该系统还包括科罗拉多大学丹佛分校、科罗拉多大学科罗拉多斯普林斯分校与安舒茨医学院。

Today the university reports 38,508 students enrolled in autumn 2026, of whom 32,637 are undergraduates and 5,871 are graduate students, alongside 3,495 faculty members in autumn 2025 and a system-wide endowment of $2.47 billion in fiscal year 2025, and it is a member of the Association of American Universities and classified among R1 doctoral universities with very high research activity.该校 2026 年秋季在册学生 38,508 人，其中本科生 32,637 人、研究生 5,871 人，2025 年秋季有教师 3,495 人，大学系统捐赠基金在 2025 财年达 24.7 亿美元，学校是美国大学协会成员并被评为本科研活动极高的一类博士大学。

History

• On 14 March 1876 the territorial legislature amended the state constitution to fund three institutions at once: the University of Colorado at Boulder, the Colorado School of Mines in Golden and the Colorado Agricultural College in Fort Collins.1876 年 3 月 14 日，领地议会修改州宪法草案以同时资助三所学校：位于博尔德的科罗拉多大学、戈尔登的科罗拉多矿业学院与柯林斯堡的科罗拉多农业学院。

• Long before the charter, the cornerstone of the building that became Old Main had already been laid on 20 September 1875, so construction at Boulder began under territorial rather than state authority.在建校特许状之前，后来成为老主楼的建筑已于 1875 年 9 月 20 日奠下基石，可见博尔德营建始于领地时期而非建州之后。

• The doors of the university opened on 5 September 1877 with fifteen students in the college proper and fifty in an on-campus preparatory school, because few Colorado high schools could then prepare pupils for university work.大学于 1877 年 9 月 5 日开学，正科只有 15 名学生，校内预备学校有 50 名，原因在当时科罗拉多几乎没有能为大学课程做准备的高中所。

• That first student body counted 38 men and 27 women whose ages ranged from 12 to 23, a narrow but coeducational beginning that the university still cites as evidence of its unusual founding character.首批学生中有男性 38 人、女性 27 人，年龄从 12 岁到 23 岁不等，这种规模狭小却男女同校的开端至今被校方视为创校特质。

• In 1878 the university hired Mary Rippon as its first female professor, and she taught English grammar, German, French and mathematics, one of the earliest women faculty members at any American university.1878 年学校聘任玛丽·里蓬为首任女教授，她教授英语语法、德语、法语与数学，是美国各大学最早的女教师之一。

• Charles Klauder was appointed campus architect and his initial plan for new university buildings, drawn in the Collegiate Gothic manner of East Coast schools, was approved in 1919 under president George Norlin, who held the presidency into the 1940s.查尔斯·克劳德被任为校园建筑师，他按东海岸学院哥特式风格拟定的新楼方案在 1919 年获校长乔治·诺林批准，诺林的校长任期一直延续到 1940 年代。

• Within about a month of that approval Klauder sketched in a new wrap of rough textured sandstone walls with sloping multi-leveled red-orange tiled roofs and Indiana limestone trim, and this style, called Tuscan Vernacular Revival, was used for fifteen buildings between 1921 and 1939.方案获批约一个月后，克劳德改以粗糙砂岩墙、多层倾斜的橘红瓦顶与印第安纳石灰岩饰边勾出新样式，即所谓托斯卡纳乡土复兴式，并在 1921 年至 1939 年间用于 15 座建筑。

• Macky Auditorium opened in 1923, thirteen years after construction began, because the estate dispute brought by Andrew J. Macky's adopted daughter May over his $300,000 bequest to the university took thirteen years to settle.麦基礼堂于 1923 年启用，距开工已十三年，起因是安德鲁·麦基的养女梅为其遗赠大学的 30 万美元遗产提起诉讼，官司拖了十三年才了结。

• During World War II Colorado was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that joined the V-12 Navy College Training Program, which offered students a wartime path to a navy commission.第二次世界大战期间，科罗拉多大学是全国 131 所参加海军 V-12 军官培养计划的院校之一，该计划为学生提供了战时取得海军委任军官资格的途径。

• Lucile Berkeley Buchanan became the university's first African American female graduate when she received her degree in 1918, and a campus building now carries her name.露西尔·伯克利·布坎南于 1918 年获学位，成为该校首位非裔女性毕业生，如今校园内有一栋建筑以她的名字命名。

• Charles H. Nilon was hired in 1956 as the first African-American professor and Mildred Nilon in 1962 as the first African-American librarian, and the Charles and Mildred Nilon Teacher Education Scholarship Fund now honours both.查尔斯·尼隆于 1956 年受聘为首任非裔教授，米尔德丽德·尼隆于 1962 年成为首任非裔图书馆员，如今以二人命名的教师教育奖学金基金同时纪念他们。

• The Honors Program, the university's oldest sustained scheme for high-achieving undergraduates, began in 1931 and today draws its participants from the top ten percent of incoming freshmen and from students with a grade point average of 3.3 or higher.荣誉课程是学校历史最久的拔尖本科生计划，始于 1931 年，现今学员来自新生前百分之十以及平均绩点 3.3 及以上的在读学生。

• Norlin Library, the last building designed by Klauder, opened in 1940, ending thirty-seven years in which the collection had been kept in Old Main until the weight of the books began to damage the floor.克劳德设计的最后一座建筑诺林图书馆于 1940 年开放，结束了藏书在老主楼存放三十七年的历史，此前书籍重量已开始损坏楼板。

• The library's first separate home had its cornerstone laid in January 1903 and opened in January 1904, and when Norlin took over the collection that older building was handed to the Theatre department and converted into classrooms and a theatre.图书馆首栋独立馆舍于 1903 年 1 月动工奠基、1904 年 1 月开馆，1940 年藏书迁入诺林图书馆后，旧楼移交戏剧系改为教室与剧场。

• JILA, originally named the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, was founded in 1962 as a joint institute of the university and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and its Quantum Physics Division staff hold joint faculty appointments at CU Boulder.JILA 原名实验室天体物理联合研究所，1962 年由本校与美国国家标准与技术研究院共建，其量子物理部研究人员同时受聘为博尔德分校的联合教职。

• The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics grew out of a rocket programme founded in 1948 and adopted its present name in 1965, becoming a university institute with more than 750 scientists, engineers and students.大气与空间物理实验室源于 1948 年创立的火箭计划，1965 年改用现名，此后发展为拥有 750 余名科学家、工程师与学生的校内研究所。

• The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences was established in 1967 and is jointly sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research and the university, the oldest and largest of NOAA's sixteen cooperative institutes.环境科学研究合作研究所成立于 1967 年，由美国国家海洋和大气管理局海洋与大气研究办公室与该校共同主办，是该局 16 个合作研究所中历史最久、规模最大的一个。

• The Institute for Behavioral Genetics, founded in 1967, was the first research institute in the post-war world devoted to behavioural genetics and led the revival of interest in genetic influences on behaviour.行为遗传研究所成立于 1967 年，是战后世界上第一个专攻行为遗传学的研究机构，并引领了对遗传影响行为这一方向的重新关注。

• In 1995 Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman used laser and evaporative cooling at JILA to create the first Bose-Einstein condensate, a new form of matter held just seven hundred billionths of a degree above absolute zero.1995 年埃里克·康奈尔与卡尔·威曼在 JILA 以激光致冷与蒸发致冷首次制得玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚这一新形态物质，其温度仅高出绝对零度约七百亿分之一度。

• CU Boulder adopted an honor code in 2000 after concerns about academic dishonesty in the late 1990s, and a metal plate engraved with the pledge is posted in every classroom on campus.2000 年，因 1990 年代后期对学术不诚信的担忧，学校通过荣誉守则，如今每一间教室都挂有镌刻誓词的金属牌。

• Former chancellor Philip P. DiStefano created the CU Boulder History Project in January 2020 and named Polly E. Bugros McLean of the College of Media, Communication and Information as its chair, with a comprehensive report due in spring 2024 after a pandemic delay forced the committee to resume work in February 2021.前校务长菲利普·迪斯特凡诺于 2020 年 1 月创设博尔德分校历史项目，并指定媒介传播与信息学院的波利·麦克莱恩担任主持，疫情延期后委员会于 2021 年 2 月恢复工作，总报告定于 2024 年春完成。

Academics

• The university consists of nine colleges and schools offering more than 150 academic programmes, with roughly 3,400 courses across over 150 disciplines and 85 majors ranging from accounting to women's studies, most of which also carry master's and doctoral degree programmes.学校由 9 个学院与学系组成，开设 150 余个学位项目，约 3,400 门课程覆盖 150 多个学科、85 个专业，方向从会计学到女性研究，其中多数同时设有硕士与博士项目。

• Its teaching units include the College of Arts and Sciences, by far the largest, the College of Engineering and Applied Science, the College of Music, the School of Education, the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Law School, the Program in Environmental Design and the College of Media, Communication and Information.教学单位包括规模最大的文理学院、工程与应用科学学院、音乐学院、教育学院、利兹商学院、科罗拉多大学法学院、环境设计项目以及媒介、传播与信息学院。

• University of Colorado Law School is the smallest and most selective of the colleges, and its Wolf Law Building was dedicated on 8 September 2006 by United States Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer.科罗拉多大学法学院是全校规模最小、录取最严的学院，其沃尔夫法律楼于 2006 年 9 月 8 日由美国最高法院大法官斯蒂芬·布雷耶揭幕启用。

• The Leeds School of Business reports an enrollment of 3,300 students counting undergraduates, master's candidates and doctoral candidates together.利兹商学院注册生约 3,300 人，包括本科生、硕士生与博士生。

• For the class of 2025, enrolled in autumn 2021, CU Boulder received 54,756 applications and accepted 43,576 of them, a rate of 79.6 percent, of which 6,785 enrolled for a yield of 15.6 percent, with an 87 percent freshman retention rate and 74 percent graduating within six years.面向 2025 届（2021 年秋入学），学校收到 54,756 份申请、录取 43,576 份即 79.6%，其中 6,785 人报到、保留率 15.6%，新生续读率为 87%，六年毕业率为 74%。

• Admitted freshmen who submitted tests in 2021 showed middle fifty percent composite scores of 1180 to 1380 on the SAT, submitted by 32 percent of the class, and 25 to 31 on the ACT, submitted by 16 percent, and eight were National Merit Scholars in 2020-2021.2021 级提交成绩的新生中，占全班 32% 的 SAT 申请者中间 50% 区间为 1180 至 1380 分，占 16% 的 ACT 申请者区间为 25 至 31 分，2020 至 2021 学年有 8 名国家优秀奖学金学者。

• Honors students take from more than forty honours classes each semester taught by tenured or tenure-track professors in sections limited to seventeen students, and may graduate with honours, high honours or highest honours by writing and defending a senior thesis.荣誉课程学生每学期可选修 40 余门由终身轨教师主讲、限额 17 人的荣誉课，并可通过撰写并答辩高年级论文取得荣誉、优等荣誉或最高荣誉毕业。

• The Honors Program extends into the residence halls through the Kittredge Honors Program, while the Presidents Leadership Class admits the top fifty students at CU Boulder from every major into a four-year leadership development curriculum.荣誉课程借基特雷奇荣誉项目延伸到宿舍区，而总统领导力班则从全校各专业录取最优秀的 50 名学生进入为期四年的领导力培养课程。

• Residential academic programmes, mostly taken by freshmen and sophomores living on campus, attach a curricular theme such as international affairs or environmental studies to a hall and offer courses inside the residence itself.住宿学术项目主要面向住校的一二年级学生，把国际事务、环境研究等课程主题与某一宿舍楼绑定，并在宿舍内直接开课。

• Eleven research institutes support the university's research mission, and among them are the BioFrontiers Institute, the Institute of Cognitive Science with its functional magnetic resonance imaging facility, the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, the Institute of Behavioral Science and the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute.11 个研究所支撑学校的科研使命，其中包括生物前沿研究所、配备功能磁共振成像装置的认知科学研究所、北极与高山研究所、行为科学研究所以及可再生与可持续能源研究所。

• The ATLAS Institute blends engineering, computer science and robotics with design, offering undergraduate, master's and doctoral programmes, and by the 2018 to 2019 academic year about 1,200 students were enrolled there with six research labs, a makerspace and a black-box performance studio.ATLAS 研究所把工程、计算机科学与机器人学同设计结合，设本科、硕士与博士项目，到 2018 至 2019 学年约有 1,200 名学生注册，下设 6 个研究实验室、1 处创客空间与 1 间黑箱实验剧场。

• JILA is housed in its own laboratory complex on the CU Boulder campus and is the research home of the physicists who shared the Nobel prize for the Bose-Einstein condensate and for laser precision spectroscopy.JILA 的研究楼座落在博尔德校园内，是因玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚与激光精密光谱而分享诺贝尔物理学奖的几位物理学家的研究机构。

• LASP reports a budget exceeding $200 million in 2025 and manages or supports 26 active space missions from its Space Technology Research Center at 3665 Discovery Drive under director Bethany Ehlmann, with historical ties to Ball Aerospace Corporation.大气与空间物理实验室 2025 年报导预算超过 2 亿美元，在主任贝萨尼·埃尔特曼领导下于发现道 3665 号的空间技术研究中心管理或支持 26 项在轨任务，并与贝尔航空航天公司保持历史渊源。

• The National Center for Atmospheric Research was founded in 1960 in Boulder, is sponsored by the National Science Foundation and managed by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, a nonprofit that UCAR faculty from fourteen universities established in 1959 and that now binds more than 100 colleges and universities with nearly 1,400 staff.国家大气研究中心 1960 年在博尔德创立，由美国国家科学基金会资助、大气研究大学公司管理，后者由 14 所大学的教师于 1959 年创设，如今联结 100 余所高校、员工近 1,400 人。

• UCAR's headquarters at Boulder include the Mesa Laboratory, designed by the architect I. M. Pei, and the atmospheric and related sciences that NCAR and CU Boulder teach together underpin the campus standing at the top of the Shanghai subject ranking for atmospheric science.大气研究大学公司总部设于博尔德，包括建筑师贝聿铭设计的梅萨实验楼，国家大气研究中心与本校共同讲授的大气及相关学科，支撑起该校在软科大气科学学科排名中的顶尖位次。

• Continuing education runs the Center for Advanced Engineering and Technology Education, founded in 1983 as the distance-learning arm of the College of Engineering and Applied Science with over 1,000 annual enrollments from more than 250 job sites, while the Engineering Management Program began in 1987 on an endowment from Lockheed Martin and now teaches online through Coursera.继续教育学院下设的高等工程与技术教育中心成立于 1983 年，作为工程与应用科学学院的远程教学分支，每年从 250 余个用人单位招收逾 1,000 人，而工程管理项目始于 1987 年洛克希德·马丁的捐赠基金，如今通过 Coursera 平台在线授课。

Campus

• The Boulder campus covers 786 acres, about 318 hectares, south of the Pearl Street Mall and east of Chautauqua Auditorium, where the Rocky Mountains meet the Great Plains and the tilted sedimentary slabs known as the Flatirons rise to the west as the recognised symbol of the town.博尔德校园占地 786 英亩、约 318 公顷，位于珍珠街步道以南、查托夸会堂以东，此处落基山脉与大平原相接，向西隆起、被称为费拉托斯的一组倾斜沉积岩板是这座小镇公认的象征。

• East Campus lies about a quarter-mile from the main campus and is made up mostly of athletic fields and research buildings, while Williams Village sits roughly 1.5 miles away with free bus service between it and the central campus.东校区距主校区约四分之一英里，主要由运动场与研究楼构成，威廉斯村民宿区远在约 1.5 英里外，与中心校区之间有免费班车往返。

• Students may choose among 24 on- and off-campus residence halls offering seventeen varieties of room types from singles to four-person rooms and apartment-style units, and many halls host residential academic programmes.学生可选 24 座校内与校外宿舍楼，房型共 17 种，从单人房、四人房到公寓式单元不等，许多宿舍楼同时承载住宿学术项目。

• Sandstone for nearly every campus building came from Front Range mountain quarries chosen by Klauder, whose unified style still governs new construction, while the two oldest landmarks, Old Main of 1876 and Macky Auditorium of 1923, remain Collegiate Gothic.克劳德为校园几乎所有建筑选定落基山东麓采石场的砂岩，其统一样式至今仍约束新建工程，而最老的两座地标 1876 年的老主楼与 1923 年的麦基礼堂仍属学院哥特式。

• Norlin Library overlooks the Norlin Quadrangle with two inscriptions composed by president George Norlin, the larger reading "Who knows only his own generation remains always a child" after a Cicero quotation and the smaller over the door reading "Enter here the timeless fellowship of the human spirit".诺林图书馆俯瞰诺林广场，外墙有两段由校长乔治·诺林撰写的铭文，较大的一段化用西塞罗名言写道「只知自身一代者永远是孩童」，门楣上方较小的一段写道「请进入此处人类精神超越时间的共同体」。

• Macky Auditorium at the north edge of the campus near 17th Street and University Avenue seats 2,000, houses the Jazz Studies Department and the Choral Department of the College of Music, hosts nearly every Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra and CU Opera performance and was refurbished in 1986 with new seating, carpeting, plumbing and an elevator.位于校园北缘、近 17 街与大学大道的麦基礼堂有 2,000 个座位，设音乐学院爵士研究与合唱两个学系，几乎承办博尔顿爱乐乐团与科罗拉多大学歌剧团的所有演出，1986 年整修时更新了座椅、地毯、给排水并加装电梯。

• The Fiske Planetarium and Science Center at 2414 Regent Drive, dedicated on 19 September 1975 as part of the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, has a 60-foot dome, about 18 metres, and presents fulldome films, laser and liquid-sky shows, concerts and public programmes.位于里根道 2414 号的菲斯克天文馆与科学中心于 1975 年 9 月 19 日落成，属天体物理与行星科学系，馆内有直径 60 英尺、约 18 米的穹顶，放映全天域影片、激光与液态天空秀，并举办音乐会与公众活动。

• The University Memorial Center, begun after Governor Lee Knous issued a 1947 proclamation for a memorial to Colorado's servicemen, opened in October 1953 under president Robert Stearns and gained a 1964 addition with a new bookstore, conference rooms and dining space, and around it stand the Center for Community, completed in September 2010 at $84.4 million with 323,000 square feet, and the student recreation center built in 1973 by architect James Wallace and now about 300,000 square feet.大学纪念中心始于州长李·克努斯 1947 年为科罗拉多服役军人设立纪念物的公告，1953 年 10 月在校长罗伯特·斯蒂恩斯主持下开放，1964 年扩建新增书店、会议室与餐饮区，其周边还有 2010 年 9 月以 8,440 万美元建成、面积 32.3 万平方英尺的社区中心，以及建筑师詹姆斯·华莱士 1973 年设计、如今约 30 万平方英尺的学生活动中心。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings the University of Colorado Boulder is placed at 320 in the world, the band at which this entry is indexed.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，科罗拉多大学博尔德分校位列世界第 320 名，本条目即按此档位收录。

• Its standing is far higher under the Shanghai Ranking methodology, which weights Nobel and Fields-scale staff output and highly cited papers, and the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities places CU Boulder at 49 in the world, a gap of nearly three hundred places against the QS figure that reflects how differently the two league tables count prestige.在软科口径下其位次远为靠前，该法权重偏向诺贝尔奖与菲尔兹奖级的在职人员产出和高被引论文，2026 年软科世界大学学术排名把该校列为世界第 49，与 QS 数字相差近 300 位，反映两张榜单对声望的计量方式截然不同。

• The same 2026 Shanghai Ranking of Academic Subjects lists 36 CU Boulder subjects among the world's best, with Earth Sciences first in the world, Atmospheric Science third, Physics twelfth, Water Resources sixteenth, Aerospace Engineering seventeenth, Communication twentieth, Geography twenty-eighth and Ecology forty-ninth.同期 2026 年软科世界一流学科排名收录该校 36 个学科，其中地球科学居世界第一，大气科学第三，物理学第十二，水资源第十六，航空航天工程第十七，传播学第二十，地理学第二十八，生态学第四十九。

• In the 2026-2027 US News Best Global Universities table the university, entered there as University of Colorado Boulder, ranks 105th worldwide, while the 2025 US News national tables put it tied for 97th among national universities and tied for 46th among public universities in the United States.在 2026 至 2027 年度《美国新闻与世界报道》全球最佳大学排名中，该校位列世界第 105，而其 2025 年国内榜把它列为全国大学并列第 97、全美公立大学并列第 46。

• For the 2027 edition of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings the university does not appear in the official world table of 3,146 entries, and its THE institution profile carries a most recent 2026 placing of 159th rather than a 2027 position, so readers should rely on the official league tables for the current picture.就 2027 年版泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名而言，该校未出现在收录 3,146 所院校的官方世界榜总表中，其泰晤士单校档案页最新一条为 2026 年的并列第 159，而非 2027 年名次，读者应以官方榜单为准。^[1]

• OpenAlex records 179,151 scholarly works and 20,301,938 citations for the institution, identifiers it carries as OpenAlex I188538660 and ROR 02ttsq026.OpenAlex 收录该机构学术产出 179,151 项、被引 20,301,938 次，其 OpenAlex 编号为 I188538660。

• In 2021 the university attracted more than 634 million in research support and spent536 million on research and development according to the National Science Foundation table of higher education R&D expenditures, which ranked it 50th in the nation.2021 年该校获得科研资助逾 6.34 亿美元，并按美国国家科学基金会高校研发支出统计在研发上花费 5.36 亿美元，居全国第 50。

• Alumni, faculty and researchers include twelve Nobel Prize laureates, of whom five were affiliated with the university when they were awarded the prize, together with ten Pulitzer Prize winners, eleven MacArthur Fellows, one Turing Award laureate, twenty astronauts and two associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the university's own account counts five Nobel laureates on campus since 1989.校友、教师与研究人员中出过 12 位诺贝尔奖得主，其中 5 位在获奖时即与该校有隶属关系，另有 10 位普利策奖得主、11 位麦克阿瑟学者、1 位图灵奖得主、20 位航天员与 2 位美国最高法院大法官，校方自述 1989 年以来在校有 5 位诺奖得主。

• It receives more NASA astrophysics technology grants than any other academic institution and is the only university in the world to have sent instruments to every planet in the Solar System, a record its atmospheric, space and planetary scientists track back to the rocket programme that became LASP in 1948.它获得的美国国家航空航天局天体物理技术资助多于任何其他学术机构，也是全球唯一向太阳系每颗行星都送出探测仪器的大学，这一纪录可追溯到其大气、空间与行星科学家在 1948 年启动、后成为大气与空间物理实验室的火箭计划。

Student life

• The official motto is the Greek phrase "Λαμψάτω τὸ φῶς ὑμῶν", rendered in English as "Let your light shine", and students also govern themselves by a student-led Colorado Creed and by the honor code adopted in 2000.正式校训为希腊文「Λαμψάτω τὸ φῶς ὑμῶν」，英译为「让你的光照耀」，学生另以学生自主拟定的《科罗拉多信条》和 2000 年通过的荣誉守则自我约束。

• Teams are called the Buffaloes, a nickname adopted officially in 1934 when press names such as Silver Helmets and Frontiersmen gave way, and the final game of that year against the University of Denver saw the first running of a buffalo at a Colorado football match, using a calf rented from a local ranch.校队名为水牛队，这一称号于 1934 年正式启用，取代「银盔」「边民」等媒体旧称，同年最后一场对丹佛大学的比赛首次让水牛入场奔跑，那是一头向当地牧场租来的幼牛。

• The Buffaloes field 17 varsity sports in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision and have won 28 national championships, twenty in skiing, seven combined in men's and women's cross country and one in football, and the live bison mascot Ralphie has run a horseshoe pattern around Folsom Field before each half since 1967, with the seventh bison to hold the role named Brandy.水牛队参加全国大学体育协会第一级别碗赛分区共 17 个项目，累计夺得 28 次全国冠军，其中滑雪 20 次、男女越野合计 7 次、橄榄球 1 次，而活体美洲野牛吉祥物「拉尔夫」自 1967 年起每半场前沿福尔瑟姆球场跑出马蹄形路线，出任该角色的野牛已有 7 头，现任者名白兰地。

• Colorado rejoined the Big 12 Conference in 2024, ending its Pac-12 affiliation that began after the 2010 season, and the Big 12 itself had grown out of the old Big Eight whose members merged with four Southwest Conference schools to found the conference in 1996, while the in-state Rocky Mountain Showdown against the Colorado State Rams was long played at the neutral site Empower Field at Mile High in Denver.科罗拉多大学于 2024 年重新加入大十二联盟，结束了自 2010 赛季后开始的太平洋十二校联盟生涯，而大十二联盟本身脱胎于旧的八大联盟，其成员与西南联盟 4 校在 1996 年合并建会，州内对阵科罗拉多州立公羊队的「落基山对决」长期在丹佛的中立场地迈尔高能源球场上演。

• School colours are officially silver and gold, chosen to represent the state's mineral wealth, but black was substituted on uniforms because the two tones sat badly together, and when the Board of Regents switched the colours to sky blue and gold in the early 1980s the change proved so unpopular that they were restored after 1985.校色官方定为银与金，以象征本州的矿产富源，但两色在队服上相形刺眼遂以黑色替代，1980 年代初董事会曾改天蓝与金黄，因反响极差而在 1985 年后改回。

• Three official fight songs are "Glory Colorado", "Go Colorado" and "Fight CU", and the spirit programme adds two cheerleading squads and the CU Express Dance Team, whose costumed buffalo CHIP won the 2009 UCA national mascot competition with a skit titled "CHIP's Favorite Video Games".官方战歌有《荣耀科罗拉多》《前进科罗拉多》《战斗 CU》三首，精神团队另设两支持队啦啦队与 CU 快车舞蹈队，吉祥物服装角色 CHIP 在 2009 年 UCA 全国啦啦队赛中以小品《CHIP 最爱的电子游戏》夺得吉祥物全国冠军。

• Program Council, established in 1953, has booked concerts by the Rolling Stones, the Who, Dave Matthews Band, Pearl Jam, R.E.M. and the Ramones, the Hiking Club founded in May 1919 is the longest-running student organisation and carries the motto "half mile more", Boulder Freeride has run ski trips since 1933, and CU Gaming, founded in December 2015, is the largest student organisation with more than 3,500 members.1953 年成立的节目委员会曾邀约滚石、谁人、戴夫·马修斯乐队、珍珠果酱、R.E.M. 与雷蒙斯等演出，1919 年 5 月成立的徒步社是存续最久的学生团体、社箴为「再多半英里」，博尔德自由式滑雪社自 1933 年起组织滑雪出行，2015 年 12 月创立的 CU 游戏社以 3,500 余名成员居学生团体之首。

• Student media include KVCU AM 1190, known as Radio 1190 and funded by the student government with pledge drives twice a year, and the CU Independent, launched by journalism instructor Mal Deans in 1978 as the Working Press, renamed Campus Press, digital-only since August 2006 and given its present name in August 2008 after the Colorado Daily had left campus to become a community newspaper.学生媒体包括称 Radio 1190 的 KVCU 调幅 1190 千赫电台，由学生政府供员费并每年两次电话募捐维持，以及新闻学教师马尔·迪恩斯 1978 年以《工作报》之名创办的《CU 独立报》，它曾改名《校园报》，2006 年 8 月起纯数字化，并在《科罗拉多日报》离校转为社区报纸后的 2008 年 8 月改用今名。

• Arts and public life run through the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, established in 1958 and staged in the Mary Rippon Theatre, and through the Conference on World Affairs, founded in 1948 by the sociology professor Howard Higman and held annually in Macky Auditorium with free panels, Cinema Interruptus screenings and a jazz concert hosted by Dave Grusin and Don Grusin.艺术与公共生活由两桩盛事支撑：1958 年创设、在玛丽·里蓬露天剧场演出的科罗拉多莎士比亚戏剧节，以及社会学教授霍华德·希格曼 1948 年创办的世界事务会议，后者每年在麦基礼堂举行免费论坛，并放映「中断电影」系列、由戴夫·格鲁辛与唐·格鲁辛主持爵士音乐会。

Notable people

• Thomas Robert Cech won the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at CU Boulder for discovering the catalytic properties of RNA, an observation made first at the university and now foundational to modern biology, and he later served as president of Howard Hughes Medical Institute.托马斯·切赫因发现核糖核酸的催化性质在科罗拉多大学获 1989 年诺贝尔化学奖，这一首次在校内作出的观察如今是现代生物学的基石，他后出任霍华德·休斯医学研究所所长。

• Eric Cornell shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics for the 1995 creation of the Bose-Einstein condensate, and Carl Wieman, his partner in that work, holds a part-time appointment at CU Boulder while serving principally as professor and director of the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative at the University of British Columbia.埃里克·康奈尔因 1995 年首创玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚分享 2001 年诺贝尔物理学奖，其合作者卡尔·威曼在博尔德分校保留兼职教职，主业是英属哥伦比亚大学威曼科学教育倡议项目的教授与主任。

• John L. Hall received the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for contributions to laser-based precision spectroscopy and David J. Wineland the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on quantum optics with trapped ions, both of them JILA and CU Boulder physicists.约翰·霍尔因激光精密光谱的贡献获 2005 年诺贝尔物理学奖，戴维·威恩兰因囚禁离子的量子光学研究获 2012 年诺贝尔物理学奖，两人同为 JILA 与博尔德分校的物理学家。

• Jun Ye, a Chinese-born physicist who took his doctorate at CU Boulder and works at JILA and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, is known for atomic clocks, ultracold molecules, precision spectroscopy and frequency combs, and has received the I. I. Rabi Prize in 2007, the Norman F. Ramsey Prize in 2019, the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in 2022 and the Wolf Prize in Physics in 2026, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.叶军是一位出生于中国的物理学家，在博尔德分校获博士学位，任职于 JILA 与美国国家标准与技术研究院，以原子钟、超冷分子、精密光谱与频率梳研究知名，先后获 2007 年拉比奖、2019 年拉姆齐奖、2022 年基础物理学突破奖与 2026 年沃尔夫物理学奖，并于 2011 年当选美国国家科学院院士。

• Theodore Maiman, who earned his bachelor's degree in engineering physics at CU Boulder before doctorate work at Stanford University, is widely credited with inventing the laser and demonstrated the first working device while at Hughes Research Laboratories in 1960.西奥多·梅曼在博尔德分校取得工程物理学士学位、后赴斯坦福大学读博，被普遍认为是激光的发明者，并在 1960 年于休斯研究实验室演示了第一台能工作的激光器。

• The university ranks fourth among United States universities, excluding the service academies, in astronauts educated there and claims twenty alumni in space, among them Ellison Onizuka, who took his bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering at Boulder, and Kalpana Chawla, who earned her doctorate in 1988 with a thesis on the dynamics and control of unsteady vortical flows.若不含军事院校，该校在本国大学中培养航天员人数居第四，自述有 20 位校友进入太空，其中包括在博尔德取得工学学士与硕士学位的鬼塚·埃利森（Ellison Onizuka），以及 1988 年以非定常涡流动力学与控制论文获博士学位的卡尔帕纳·查拉（Kalpana Chawla）。

• Two heads of state are among its graduates, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who took a bachelor's degree at Colorado before a Harvard master's and became president of Liberia and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, who spent a year at the university's Economic Institute between Mongolian premiership terms and later became president of Mongolia.两位国家元首出自其校友之列：埃伦·约翰逊·瑟利夫在科罗拉多取得学士学位、后读哈佛大学硕士，成为利比里亚总统并获诺贝尔和平奖，查希亚·额勒贝格道尔吉则在两度出任蒙古总理之间于本校经济研究所进修一年，后任蒙古总统。

• Two associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States came from its law community, Wiley Rutledge, who took his law degree in 1922, practised briefly in Boulder and taught on the faculty of University of Colorado Law School, and Byron White, who entered Colorado on a scholarship open to every valedictorian in the state, graduated as class valedictorian and won a Rhodes Scholarship to Hertford College, Oxford, before Yale Law School.其法学共同体走出两位美国最高法院大法官：威利·拉特利奇 1922 年获法律学位，曾在博尔德短暂执业并任教于科罗拉多大学法学院，拜伦·怀特凭面向全州中学首席毕业生的奖学金入学，以首席毕业生身份毕业并获罗德奖学金赴牛津大学赫特福德学院，随后入耶鲁法学院。

• Steve Wozniak, who later co-designed the Apple I and Apple II personal computers, enrolled at CU Boulder but was expelled during his first year for hacking the university's computer system, and the cycling programme developed professional road riders including Tyler Hamilton and Sepp Kuss after the club was founded by Jim Castagneri in 1983 and taken to national championships by the 1992 Olympian John Stenner.后来共同设计苹果一号与苹果二号个人电脑的史蒂夫·沃兹尼亚克曾在此就读，因入侵校内计算机系统而在一年级被开除，而自行车项目则由吉姆·卡斯塔涅里 1983 年创社、经 1992 年奥运选手约翰·斯滕纳带上全国锦标赛，培养出泰勒·汉密尔顿与塞普·库斯等职业公路车手。

• Among long-serving teachers and campus figures are the architect Charles Klauder, who designed fifteen buildings here between 1918 and 1939, the chancellor Philip P. DiStefano, who led the campus from 2009 until Justin Schwartz succeeded him in 2024, the sociologist Howard Higman, the physics teaching professor Michael Dubson, the communication scholar Robert T. Craig and the religious historian Susan Kingsley Kent, while the ethnic studies professor Ward Churchill was terminated in July 2007.长期执教于此或在校留下印记的人物包括建筑师查尔斯·克劳德，1918 年至 1939 年间在此设计 15 座建筑，校务长菲利普·迪斯特凡诺自 2009 年主政至 2024 年由贾斯廷·施瓦茨接任，社会学家霍华德·希格曼、物理教学教授迈克尔·杜布森、传播学者罗伯特·克雷格与宗教史家苏珊·肯特，而族裔研究教授沃德·丘吉尔于 2007 年 7 月被解聘。