Dick Shahan

Boulder resident Dick Shahan (Engl’71, MA’78, PhD’85) committed $75,000 to CU-Boulder, of which $50,000 has established the Dick Shahan CU-Boulder Undergraduate Writing Competition. Each year $2,000 will be given to an undergraduate who writes the best prose piece about Boulder. The remaining $25,000 will fund the Shahan Graduate Fellowships in the CU-Boulder English department; a $1,000 research grant will be given to a graduate student annually.