Graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Creative Technology and Design, Michelle Galetti has been recognized with both the ATLAS Outstanding Undergraduate Award, and Outstanding Graduate of the College, the College of Engineering and Applied Science’s top undergraduate award.
Throughout her ATLAS career, Michelle has achieved excellence in her academic pursuits and demonstrated technical skill, creativity, dedication, maturity and inventiveness. A member of the National Society for Collegiate Scholars, she has earned a 4.0 GPA every semester since the beginning of her junior year. “Her performance across all measures helps expand and redefine what it means to be an outstanding engineering student,” says Arielle Hein, director of undergraduate programs and instructor. Aileen Pierce, associate director of undergraduate programs and senior instructor, echoes these sentiments: “Michelle is a driven student whose projects were some of the most creative, well-designed and technically strong in the class.”
In addition to her academic performance, Michelle has demonstrated extraordinary resilience and tenacity in her personal life. After experiencing complete and sudden hearing loss the summer before her junior year, she remained in school, continuing to fulfill her duties as a teaching assistant and maintaining the high quality of her academic work. In the months that followed, the experience prompted her to design a stylish jacket that provides the wearer with haptic feedback in response to ambient sound.
Michelle has made notable contributions to the ATLAS and College of Engineering communities. In addition to serving for two semesters as a teaching assistant for a web development class (most recently heading up a team of six), she tutors and mentors students in the college as an Engineering Fellow, in addition to performing service activities. And throughout all of her endeavors, she is thoughtful and considerate. “Michelle is incredibly kind, caring and inclusive of others," said Hein. "She emerged as a leader within ATLAS.”
After completing an internship with the Southwest Research Institute’s space operations in Boulder, Michelle will rejoin the organization full-time as a student scientist in mission operations and a senior web developer. We congratulate Michelle on her many accomplishments at CU Boulder and wish her well as she begins her professional career.
See also the announcement naming Michelle Galetti "Outstanding Graduate of the College," and “Suddenly Silent”, an article about Michelle that was published in the Winter 2020 issue of The Coloradan.
