(From left to right) Dr. Karin Schuster, professor Wolfgang Schuster (Berlin Frei Universit), Sharron Land Gegenheimer and Dr. Bernd Kottmann reunited in Munich, Germany in 2019.

‘I want to encourage Colorado students to think about something beyond Colorado’

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CU Boulder alumna Sharron Land Gegenheimer endows scholarship to help students study abroad and connect with the world.

Qing Yang use the saliva test he developed in a lab
As pandemic spread, ‘I couldn’t just sit around’
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Kavya Kannan posing for a photoshoot.
Graduate completes triple major while leading student government
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Family’s Buff roots sko deep
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Alumni

Header image composited with 3 images, from left to right, Canton “Scally” O’Donnell, John and Mary Jo O’Donnell and Elizabeth “Libby” O’Donnell
Family’s Buff roots sko deep

May 2, 2022

Three generations of arts-and-sciences O’Donnells will celebrate this year’s commencement.

Green center on linen
Artist highlights juncture of the familiar, the unknown

Feb. 2, 2021

Guggenheim-winning alum reflects on her career and time at CU Boulder.

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Cave-dwelling alum digs up ancient creatures

Nov. 3, 2020

CU Boulder graduate delves into the deepest parts of Colorado mountains in search of the strange.

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Students, Faculty

(From left to right) Dr. Karin Schuster, professor Wolfgang Schuster (Berlin Frei Universit), Sharron Land Gegenheimer and Dr. Bernd Kottmann reunited in Munich, Germany in 2019.
‘I want to encourage Colorado students to think about something beyond Colorado’

May 13, 2022

CU Boulder alumna Sharron Land Gegenheimer endows scholarship to help students study abroad and connect with the world.

Qing Yang use the saliva test he developed in a lab
As pandemic spread, ‘I couldn’t just sit around’

May 4, 2022

After getting stuck in China, graduating PhD student pivoted research to help test for the COVID-19 virus without nasal swab.

Kavya Kannan posing for a photoshoot.
Graduate completes triple major while leading student government

May 3, 2022

Kavya Kannan graduates with a BA in political science summa cum laude and with majors in economics and international affairs; she is the A&S outstanding graduate for spring 2022.

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Donors

Patricia Sheffels
‘Little decisions influenced my life’

April 21, 2022

CU Boulder grad Patricia Sheffels establishes keynote-speaker program to address environmental issues.

Rose Ann Bershenyi and scholarship recipients
‘She is gold’

March 18, 2022

CU Boulder graduate Rose Ann Bershenyi’s ‘gifts are transformative.’

Persuasive Prints (Installation view), CU Art Museum, February 6–March 12, 2020. Photo by Patrick Campbell, © University of Colorado Boulder.
Math alum sows seeds of diversity in art

March 4, 2021

$25K gift establishes Diversity Acquisition Fund at CU Boulder Art Museum.

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Obituaries

joint polar satellite system
Physicist, entrepreneur, space pioneer R.C. Mercure dies at 90

March 24, 2022

CU Boulder alumnus was instrumental in launching what became Ball Aerospace and other successful ventures.

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Astrophysicist, STEM-education pioneer Richard McCray dies at 83

Nov. 4, 2021

‘Dick was my mentor and my collaborator,’ says education professor Valerie Otero, who credits McCray with keeping her, a first-generation, Hispanic woman, in physics

Jeanne Ulmer
Jeanne Ulmer, longtime CU Boulder staff member, dies at 50

Aug. 26, 2021

In the morning light of Aug. 13, 2021, Jeanne Marie “Jeannie” Ulmer passed away at the age of 50 in Longmont, Colorado.

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