Alumni in Focus
- For Sharron Land Gegenheimer, living and studying abroad was life-changing—and now she wants other students at CU Boulder to have the same kinds of experiences.
- This spring, CU has honored Michael Leeds with a university medal, recognizing not only his financial support, but his tireless advocacy for bringing sustainability, social responsibility, diversity, equity and inclusion to the forefront.
- Three generations of the O’Donnell family—all attending the College of Arts and Sciences—will celebrate this year’s commencement.
- Lucky Vidmar is working to empower ethics-focused engineers and honor his friend and mentor through the Moulakis Lecture Series within the Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics & Society.
- CU Boulder alumna Patricia Sheffels has established a keynote-speaker program to address environmental issues.
- Frank Webb is headed to Folsom Field to participate in something the war prevented him from doing in the 1960s—attending a commencement ceremony.
- Recent alumnus Kaleb Chesnic has already made his mark on the flute repertoire by transcribing all three of Edvard Grieg’s violin sonatas. And in a review of his debut recording with pianist Nathália Kato, Gramophone praises Chesnic as a “sensitive and virtuoso performer.”
- Rather than a more traditional scholarship, Steven Pardo’s mother was interested in creating a lecture series to honor how her son delighted in bringing people together.
- CU Boulder graduate Alexander Williams is working to raise the profile of rap and hip-hop scholarship. From very early on, he found that music gave him a sense of hope, possibility and agency.
- Mechanical engineering alumnus Sreyas Krishnan has played a critical role in United Launch Alliance’s latest Atlas V rocket launch, which carried another weather satellite into space on March 1.