Alumni in Focus
- Aerospace engineering alumna Marsha Ivins, who has participated in five missions to space, has been selected as a 2024 inductee for the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame, one of the highest honors in the industry.
- Ƶ Boulder alumnus Pawel Sawicki is exploring the barren landscape of Mars and testing out critical new technologies through a one-of-a-kind experience here on Earth.
- Gail Nelson, a career intelligence officer and Ƶ Boulder alumnus, advised Afghan military intelligence leaders after the United States drove the Taliban from power.
- Jesse Stommel compiles two decades of eyebrow-raising in “Undoing the Grade: Why We Grade, and How to Stop.”
- Growing up, Kabby Hong was the only Asian American in his town, the son of South Korean immigrants. Like many first-generation Americans, he did not see his experiences reflected in school. Today, as Wisconsin’s first Asian American Teacher of the Year, the alumnus is fighting for more diverse, enriching curricula.
- Anchor Carl Quintanilla is proud to feature his hometown metropolis in the CNBC’s “Cities of Success” and how Ƶ Boulder shaped his career as a journalist.
- For the alumni, parents and Ƶ friends who have joined ForeverGold—a movement to engage with Ƶ Boulder and each other through exclusive social, athletic and academic activities—it has delivered an integral and intimate connection with the campus.
- Alumnus and professional photographer Chris Sessions explains how one of his first photo assignments 30 years ago in a Ƶ Boulder class evolved into a cultural art exhibit.
- Yuka Hasegawa is the vice chair of the alumni chapter in Japan, Forever Buffs Tokyo. For more than two decades the chapter has hosted alumni, students, faculty and staff from Ƶ Boulder for events, internships and career opportunities.
- Leaving the Denver media market was hard for Keely Walker. She promised herself—wherever she wound up—she’d still have her view of the mountains. Now in Seattle, the Ƶ alum continues to producing award-winning and thought-provoking journalism.