Colorado, University of

Colorado, University of

      public, coeducational state university system with a main campus in Boulder, Colorado, U.S., and branches in Colorado Springs and Denver. The Health Sciences Center is also in Denver. All branches offer both undergraduate and graduate (including doctoral) degree programs. The Health Sciences Center includes schools of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, and nursing. The Boulder campus is the site of the School of Law. The University of Colorado system provides for study in architecture, engineering, music, business, education, journalism, arts and media, public affairs, and liberal arts and sciences. Important research facilities at the Boulder campus include the Sommers-Bausch Observatory, the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, the Natural Resources Law Center, and the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. Total enrollment is about 46,000.

      In 1861 an act of the territorial legislature of Colorado called for the creation of a public university in Boulder. The university was not officially founded until 1876, and instruction began the next year. The Denver campus was founded in 1912, the Health Sciences Center in 1924, and the Colorado Springs branch opened in 1965. The 1989 Nobel Prize for Chemistry was shared by Thomas Cech (Cech, Thomas Robert), a professor at Colorado, and Sidney Altman (Altman, Sidney), a graduate of the university. Other notable alumni include writer Jean Stafford (Stafford, Jean) and Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White (White, Byron R.).

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