顿别苍惫别谤鈥檚 Brad Turner (Jour, Mus) is working at Colorado Public Radio making podcasts. As executive producer of CPR鈥檚 Audio Innovations Studio, he released a new podcast, Music Blocks, a five-minute music appreciation podcast designed in collaboration with Colorado educators. The show helps teach music appreciation to middle and high schoolers, featuring contemporary music along with examples from different genres and cultures. 鈥淲e touch on music by Lil Nas X and Olivia Rodrigo, but also Beethoven and John Coltrane,鈥 he wrote. 鈥淓ach installment looks at how artists express a different emotion through music.鈥

Posted Nov. 5, 2021

Michael Hake (Mktg) of Erie, Colorado, and Gary Shirman (Soc鈥80) of Boulder formed Boulder Wealth Advisors, a financial planning and investment management firm.聽

Posted Jul. 2, 2021

Holly Morphew (IntlAf) is CEO and founder of Financial Impact, a financial coaching practice, and author of Simple Wealth. Published in 2021, the book became a No. 1 bestseller in nine out of 10 categories on Amazon.

Posted Jul. 2, 2021

In 2004, Melissa Stockwell (Comm) became the first woman to lose a limb in the Iraq War when she lost her leg to an IED during a routine patrol in Iraq. After a long and challenging recovery, Melissa went on to win three paratriathlon world championships and a bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. Melissa鈥檚 memoir, The Power of Choice: My Journey from Wounded Warrior to World Champion, was published in 2020.

Posted Mar. 4, 2021

Writer and assistant professor of politics Ahmed Khanani (IntlAf) serves as co-director of the Center for Social Justice at Earlham College. His book All Politics Are God鈥檚 Politics: Moroccan Islamism and the Sacralization of Democracy was published in January.

Posted Mar. 4, 2021

After Ryan McMunn (Mktg) and his wife Allie recovered from COVID-19, they knew they had to act. The Tricam Industries CEO utilized his business experience to source hundreds of masks from a Chinese factory that produces ladders for his company. They donated the masks to UC Health Boulder and the CU Anschutz Medical Campus. Ryan lives in Denver and also is CEO and founder of BRIC language systems and founder of Leroy Street Capital.聽

Posted Nov. 11, 2020

Kaite Barchas Wilson (Phil, Psych) was named Community Leader of the Year in the young professional category by the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce. Katie is president of The Market Group, Inc., a boutique marketing, public relations and events firm. She is also the founder of the High-Heeled Happy Hours, a women鈥檚 networking event series that honors female business leaders, and raises funds and awareness for local charities. She lives in Purcellville, Virginia, with her husband, three kids, two dogs, two cats and one fish.

Posted Jun. 1, 2020

Juli Rasmussen (Jour鈥02) helped organize the golf tournament Tiara Rado in Grand Junction in collaboration with the local Rotary and one of CU鈥檚 alumni chapters, Grand Valley Forever Buffs. The tournament raised money for engineering scholarships for Colorado Mesa University and CU Boulder students.

Posted Mar. 1, 2019

Crista聽Newmyer- Olsen (Engl, Soc;Law鈥07) said she has committed herself聽to 鈥渇ighting the good fight.鈥 Born and raised聽in Colorado鈥檚 San Luis Valley, she is currently the district attorney聽for the 12th Judicial District of Colorado. As a law student, Crista took primarily American Indian law classes.聽Her favorite professors included Jill Tompkins, then clinical professor聽in the American Indian Law Clinic, and Professor Emeritus Charles Wilkinson, whom Crista remembers fondly as a 鈥渨onderful professor in addition to a delightful human being.鈥 Outside the courtroom, Christa enjoys spending time with her family and her聽menagerie of cats, dogs and horses at her home in Mosca, Colo.

Posted Nov. 30, 2018

Alexis M. Woodall聽(Econ, Film) won her third Emmy Award in the Outstanding Limited Series category for her work as executive producer for the show Assassination聽of Gianni Versace, which details the fashion designer鈥檚 murder. She has won several Emmys including for The Normal Heart in the Outstanding Television Movie category and The People vs. O.J. Simpson in the Outstanding Limited Series category.

Posted Nov. 30, 2018

Juli Rasmussen (Jour) and Aaron Clymer (MechEngr鈥12) won the software competition Go Code Colorado. They were the first team from the Western Slope to win in the competition鈥檚 five- year history. The team, which included two other members, won $15,000.

Posted Sep. 1, 2018

Daniel Livesay聽(Psych) wrote聽Children of Uncertain聽Fortune, which delves into聽the 18th-century migration聽of elite mixed-race individuals from Jamaica to聽Great Britain. An assistant聽professor at Claremont聽McKenna College, he聽focuses on early American聽and Atlantic history,聽examining the intersection聽of race, family and slavery聽in North America and the聽Caribbean.

Posted Mar. 1, 2018

Tucker Hamilton (AeroEngr) and Aaron Frey聽(AeroEngr鈥02; MS鈥03) are both F-35 test pilots at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Tucker and Aaron are two of a handful of people testing all three variants of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Aaron is a major in the U.S. Marine Corps; Tucker serves in the Air Force. The friends grew up together in Evergreen, Colo., and played basketball on the same middle school team.

Posted Dec. 1, 2017

Emmy-award winning producer Alexis Martin Woodall (Film) was nominated for a 2017 Emmy for her work on Feud: Bette and Joan. Alexis has won Emmys as a member of producing teams for The Normal Heart and The People v. O.J. Simpson. She and husband Dave recently opened a restaurant, Red Herring, in Eagle Rock, Calif.

Posted Dec. 1, 2017

Catherine Guzelian Bazile (Mus, PolSci), formerly a member of the energy group at Holland & Hart LLP in Denver, has opened a private practice, Summit Energy Law LLC, in Englewood, Colo. The firm will specialize in matters pertaining to oil and gas title and transactional work.

Posted Dec. 1, 2017

CU Boulder Veterans Club leader Rex Laceby (Hist) was awarded the Red Cross Armed Forces Hero Award. At the end of his acceptance speech at the Red Cross Heroes Soir茅e at the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel in March, Rex proposed to Sabrina Blosky, now his fianc茅e. Rex is retired from the Marine Corps after 21 years of service. He enjoys spending time in the mountains, climbing and skiing.

Posted Sep. 1, 2017

Tracy Bloch Lechner (PolSci) joined the intellectual property department of Denver law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, where she will lead cybersecurity and technology transactions. Previously Tracy worked as vice president for Outfront Media Inc., an outdoor media advertising company.

Posted Sep. 1, 2017

Entrepreneur and consultant Aaron Perry (MGer) works with social enterprises to enhance company culture and holistic balance. He has a new book, Y on Earth. Aaron and his partner, Winter Wall, also offer workshops for companies, colleges and community groups.

Posted Jun. 1, 2017

After years of successful homebrewing and beer writing, Dave Carpenter (MAeroEngr) was named editor-in-chief of Zymurgy, the journal of the American Homebrewers Association. Dave lives in Fort Collins, Colo.

Posted Sep. 1, 2016

Last October the Centennial, Colo., men鈥檚 tennis team, a part of the U.S. Tennis Association鈥檚 adult league, took the national title at the USTA National Championships for adults with the hard work of team captain Jerad Harbaugh (Bus, MInfSys) and teammates Bryan Knepper (Psych), John Dietz Fry (Biochem鈥00) and Chris Celechovsky (EPOBio鈥98). Jerad, Chris and聽Bryan played on the CU men鈥檚 varsity tennis team during their time at CU Boulder.

Posted Sep. 1, 2016

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