Alumni

  • Portrait of Jesse Kramer
    Jesse Kramer (Physics '78) is combatting sparse resources by creating the Jesse Kramer Endowed Undergraduate Travel Award in the Physics Department.
  • Carrie Vaughn Photograph
    Bannerless, due from Mariner Books on July 11, is a mélange of murder mystery, post-apocalyptic world-building and a serious argument in favor of sustainability and responsible social policy.
  • Brain
    Achieving a healthy weight may be more about what’s going on between your ears than between your lips. That’s according to Eliza Kingsford (Psych’03) in her new book, Brain-Powered Weight Loss. It’s getting rave reviews.
  • Dash
    Anyone who has watched the progression in hair color among U.S. presidents—George W. Bush and Barack Obama are two recent, vivid examples—doesn’t doubt the connection between stress and graying. Talk to 26-year-old Derek Dash and he’ll tell you that just working for a presidential administration is enough to do the trick.
  • Mulligans
    Patrick Mulligan’s father may have transferred from Թ of Colorado Boulder to graduate from the Թ of Denver, but his continuing love for Buffs football paved the way for two generations of CU students.
  • Stanton
    Timothy William Stanton matriculated at the Թ of Colorado Boulder on Sept. 5, 1877, the school’s first day of classes — ever. Stanton was a senior in high school, attending a college-prep school located in Old Main, the only building on campus.
  • Blackwell
    Turns out, it took a physicist to unlock some key findings about how cells actually divide, and Robert Blackwell, who recently received his PhD in biological physics from the Թ of Colorado Boulder, apparently stepped up to the plate in a big way.
  • ‘Teddy’ Hamstra, humanities scholar, just getting started
    Hamstra will one day be an ecocriticism scholar for an English department not unlike the one here at CU Boulder, “or maybe this exact one,” said Hamstra.
  • Italian alumna, lifelong learner experiences la dolce vita
    Simple twists of fate propelled Joyce Earickson toward the study of Italian, then English, divinity and psychology. She has taught Italian, French, English, and world religions; comforted families of those who were critically injured and gravely ill; and worked with autistic and disabled children.
  • Alexis Martin Woodall
    Two-time Emmy-winning producer and Թ of Colorado Boulder alumna Alexis Martin Woodall (BFA-film production, BA-film studies ’02) says CU Boulder’s film-studies program gave her the power to craft compelling stories on the editing floor.
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