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The Colorado territorial legislature passed an amendment to the state constitution on the 14th of March 1876 that provided money for the establishment of the University of Colorado in Boulder. The cornerstone of Old Main was laid on the 20th of September 1875, and the university doors opened on the 5th of September 1877.
Architect Charles Klauder designed the distinctive Tuscan Vernacular Revival architecture style used for nearly all buildings on campus between 1921 and 1939. He updated earlier Collegiate Gothic styles by incorporating rough textured sandstone walls from Front Range mountain quarries with sloping multi-leveled red-orange-tiled roofs and Indiana limestone trim.
Alumni faculty and researchers have included 12 Nobel Prize laureates with five of these laureates affiliated with the university when the prizes were awarded. Current faculty include David J. Wineland who won physics in 2012 John Hall who won physics in 2005 Eric Cornell who won physics in 2001 and Thomas Robert Cech who won chemistry in 1989.
As of fall 2021 there were 35,897 students enrolled with 66.2 percent identifying as white and 56.9 percent being Colorado residents. A 2014 survey found that 16.3 percent of the students were registered members of the Republican Party while most students aligned with the political left.
The university teams were officially nicknamed the Buffaloes in 1934 after a buffalo calf ran along the sidelines during the final game against the University of Denver. The school's live mascot is a female American bison named Ralphie and the costumed mascot CHIP competes on a national level once a year.