On-air host Douglas Dinsmoor (EPOBio’77) spends time at jazz station KUVO 89.3 in Denver, serving as a fill-in on the station. He’s been broadcasting there for eight years. He had his own show for 16 years on WMFO, Tufts University. Check him out on twitter@eMarketingBrain.
Posted Dec. 1, 2011
A five-year federal grant from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine will help Dale Hales (MCDBio’77, PhDBioChem’83) test the effectiveness of a flaxseed enriched diet on suppressing ovarian cancer. He is a professor of physiology and gynecology/obstetrics at Southern Illinois University where he also chairs the physiology department and serves as a member of the Simmons Cancer Institute.
Posted Jun. 1, 2012
Williston, Vt., resident Stephen Mease (Jour’77) is director of public information and news at Champlain College in Burlington. He has served as the college’s co-chair of the annual United Way of Chittenden County Community Campaign for two years.
Posted Jun. 1, 2012
In addition to serving on the Alumni Association board of directors, offering guidance and support, Gordon Trafton II* (Bus’77) donated $500,000 to the business school’s professional mentoring program. While at CU, Gordon was mentored by professor Jerry Foster who gave him connections and career advice, helping him land a job. He lives in Naperville, Ill.
*Directors club member
Posted Jun. 1, 2012
Elyse Dolph Foster (PolSci’77) is founding principal of Boulder-based Harbor Financial Group. She was interviewed by Moneyshow.com in March and emphasized the importance of being in the market and the need for well-diversified portfolios containing a percentage of domestic and foreign equities, both large-cap and small-cap.
Posted Sep. 1, 2012
Vice president and general manager of DOCUmation, the largest independent provider of business technology in the Southwest, Barry Rogers (Mgmt’77) helped open a branch last year in Centennial, Colo., called DOCUmation of the Rockies. Barry assembled a team of industry professionals with more than 140 years of experience. He lives in Aurora, Colo.
Posted Sep. 1, 2012
After coming to Boulder in 1975 during the gay rights movement and the first same-sex marriage licenses being issued, Gregory Hinton (Bus’77) was inspired to write a book about it, The Way Things Ought To Be (Kensington). He is creator of a unique education program series called Out West. Out West informs others on the history and culture of the LGBT community in the American West and is sponsored by HBO and the Gill Foundation. “My experiences in Boulder directly inform this program,” Gregory says. He lives in Los Angeles.
Posted Dec. 1, 2012
Rio Hondo College superintendent and president Ted Martinez Jr. (EdD’77) retired in June after 41 years of service in community college education. Ted says he is very proud of the progress the college has made during his tenure as he completed his fifth year as president. One of his major accomplishments includes the completion of a $245 million construction program that revitalized the aging hilltop campus. He lives in San Diego, Calif.
Posted Dec. 1, 2012
Colorado attorney general John Suthers (Law’77) appeared in The Denver Post in July when he and several of his deputies delivered to the Supreme Court their rebuttal to a lower court ruling that threw out the state’s public education funding system, Lobato vs. Colorado. He believes how the state funds public education is a political question, not something that should be decided in court. John lives in Colorado Springs.
Posted Dec. 1, 2012
Boulder resident Joan Knapp (PhDEngl’77) appeared in the article “Pushing Back on Parkinson’s” in the Nov. 13, 2012, issue of The Denver Post. Joan was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease about two years ago when she had trouble walking unassisted and getting up from a chair. After joining the Parkinson’s Boot Camp exercise class at the Boulder YMCA last March, Joan has improved. “When I came here, I was teetering all over the place. I function like a normal person now. I can do so much more than I ever thought I could,” Joan told The Post.
Posted Mar. 1, 2013
Boulder photographer James Balog’s (MGeog’77) photo of Birthday Canyon in Greenland appeared in The Denver Post in November. James is the protagonist in the documentary Chasing Ice directed by Jeff Orlowski, a film that follows James bearing witness to rapidly changing glaciers. The documentary premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and received the best cinematography award. James’ photo also was on pages 66-67 of the December 2012 Coloradan.
Posted Mar. 1, 2013
Last fall Tucker Hart Adams (MEcon’77, PhD’78) spoke at the Boulder Valley Real Estate Conference at the Millennium Harvest House in Boulder. She is a senior partner of Summit Economics, a consulting firm that provides economic analysis and research for individuals and businesses. Tucker has monitored and analyzed the Colorado economy for 30 years and is a contributor to Summit’s blog, “Today’s Economy: A Colorado Viewpoint.” She lives in Colorado Springs and is a trustee of the CU Foundation. She received the Alumni Association’s Alumni Recognition Award in 1991.
Posted Jun. 1, 2013
Author David Goodwin (EnvCon, Geog’77) published his first novel Slave Camp Nightclub set in Boulder on The Hill and at an imaginary quarry on Sugarloaf during summer of 1976. The story follows three college students who live in a vegetarian, hippie house and take a job at a quarry during that Bicentennial summer. After they start work, they are told that the quarry has a nightclub and they are expected to live there. The students experience the magic of the nightclub and try to figure out what is real and imagined. The book is available at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. David lives in Shutesbury, Mass.
Posted Jun. 1, 2013
After living on the Garden Isle of Kaua’i, Hawaii, professional copywriter and creative marketing coach Debra Jason (MComDisor’77) moved back to Boulder. She is owner of The Write Direction, which proudly celebrated its 24th anniversary. Founded in Boulder, The Write Direction specializes in writing web and direct marketing
communications.
Posted Jun. 1, 2013
In April the White House invited photographer James Balog (MGeog’77) to attend a screening of his Oscar-nominated documentary Chasing Ice. That same month James received the Outstanding Alumni Award at CU’s Sustainability Awards Ceremony. James has been a leader in photographing, understanding and interpreting the natural environment for three decades. He founded the Extreme Ice Survey and brought worldwide attention to climate change through Chasing Ice. He is author of seven books and develops high school and college-level curricula. James lives in Boulder with his wife and daughters.
Posted Sep. 1, 2013
In March Mark Busby (PhDEngl’77) published his second novel, Cedar Crossing. Much of the novel is set in 1964 when the main character, a college student, is assigned to interview his grandfather about a notorious hanging in Henderson County, Texas, in 1899. In fall 2012 Mark returned to teaching full time in the Texas State University-San Marcos English department after serving for 21 years as director of the Center for the Study of the Southwest at Texas State. He resides in Wimberley, Texas.
Posted Sep. 1, 2013
As a member of CU-Boulder’s Alumni Association board for seven years Doug Nelson* (Anth’77) never forgot to remind the board chair that the CU Fight Song must be sung at every meeting. In May board members thanked Doug for being their No. 1 cheerleader, the voice of reason for many years, fearless in asking tough questions and driving from Kansas for three-hour executive committee meetings. Doug’s board term ended in May. A financial planner, he lives in Bonner Springs, Kan., with his wife and daughter.
*Lifetime Member
Posted Sep. 1, 2013
On Jan. 5 John Suthers (Law’77) appeared in The Denver Post for becoming the second-longest-serving attorney general in Colorado history. He was sworn in on Jan. 4, 2005, by Gov. Bill Owens. Duke Dunbar, who served 22 years from 1951-73, has the longest tenure. John lives in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Posted Sep. 1, 2013
John Hicks (CivEngr’77) lives northeast of Sacramento near Nevada City and Grass Valley on a small horse ranch. He works as an engineering contractor on flood control projects throughout California’s Central Valley.
Posted Dec. 1, 2013
Denver resident Ron Binz (MMath’77) was President Obama’s nominee for chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) before he withdrew from consideration in October. FERC is an independent commission of five members who regulate the interstate transmission of natural gas, oil and electricity. Members handle proposals to build natural gas pipelines and licensing for hydropower projects. Ron has directed Colorado’s Office of Consumer Counsel, served as president of the nonprofit Competition Policy Institute and worked as chairman of the Colorado Public Utilities Commission.
Posted Mar. 1, 2014
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