Shelby Opp

Exploring opportunities around campus, whether it be joining the marching band or adding a second major, will give you a new perspective on the world around you. The relationships you build with the people you meet from these experiences will stay with you even after you move on from CU.

Shelby is highly motivated and consistently pushes herself outside her comfort zone. She is graduating with degrees in astrophysics and geology and has multiple research experiences in each discipline. When choosing a research project related to her astrophysics degree for her honors thesis, Shelby was presented with several options. She chose the hardest one, because it sounded the most interesting to her. Now she's graduating magna cum laude, and her graduate work will be funded by a fellowship from the National Science Foundation. On top of all of this, Shelby has found time to work at the campus observatory, work in the APS department, be a grader and ... be the drum major for the CU Marching Band!