Nathan Seidle (ElEngr) received the Kalpana Chawla Outstanding Recent Graduate Award at the CU Boulder Alumni Association’s 87th Annual Awards Ceremony. In 2003, Nathan opened a one-man business reselling circuit boards from Europe. His Boulder-based firm SparkFun now employs more than 100 people. He lives in Boulder.

Posted Dec. 1, 2016

Last summer ´ł±đ´Ú´Ú°ů±đ˛âĚý°Ő´Çłľ±ôľ±˛Ô˛ő´Ç˛Ô (PolSci) was a featured performer at OUTspoken!, Chicago’s monthly LGBTQ storytelling event. He is the dean of instruction at Noble’s Rowe-Clark Math and Science Academy in Chicago. He specializes in coaching, developing and supporting 16 English Language Arts and humanities teachers. Jeffrey’s teaching career has brought him to Washington, D.C., Denver, the Dominican Republic and Dallas.

Posted Jun. 1, 2016

Lindsey Wilson (Thtr) accepted the position of Dallas city editor at CultureMap, a digital magazine. She previously worked as the Texas regional editor for Where Traveler and as theater critic at D Magazine.

Posted Dec. 1, 2015

From his college apartment, Nathan Seidle (ElEngr) built and sold his first circuit boards. Twelve years later his company, SparkFun, sells 100,000 circuit boards a month, offers 2,000 different products and has annual revenues of nearly $33 million. This summer SparkFun opened its first offline store in Niwot, Colo., catering to small-scale buyers interested in kits and parts.

Posted Dec. 1, 2015

A reporter for ABC7 News, Mike Carter-Conneen (Jour, PolSci) won his first Emmy award a day after reporting on the Obergefell v. Hodges same-sex marriage ruling. A week later, he married his husband, Torey Carter-Conneen, surrounded by friends and family in Washington, D.C.

Posted Dec. 1, 2015

Early this year Denver resident Nate Ragolia (Engl) published his first novella, There You Feel Free, which details the day-to-day lives of five Millennials. Nate heavily draws on T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Wasteland” for the book. It is available at blackhillpress.com.

Posted Sep. 1, 2015

±Ę°ů´Ç»ĺłÜł¦±đ°ůĚýHeather Richardson (Soc) joined the Chicago-based editorial firm Cutters in January. For nine years, she worked for Cosmo Street Editorial in New York as a producer of high-profile commercials for clients that included ESPN, Verizon and Geico.

Posted Sep. 1, 2015

Rhodes College professor Chris Seaton (PhDMath) was awarded Rhodes College’s highest faculty honor for outstanding teaching and research. Chris is an associate professor in the college’s math and computer science department. He studies orbifolds that are formed when a surface gets folded on itself, particularly those with seven-dimensional surfaces in 10-dimensional space. Chris has had 20 manuscripts published or accepted since 2007 and has presented his work internationally.

Posted Sep. 1, 2015

Houston native Kelly Hunsicker (Fin) left the Rocky Mountains in 2005 to return home for a position with Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Today, she is assistant vice president in the oil and gas group.

Posted Jun. 1, 2015

Former student government tri-executive Richard M. Murray (Phil, PolSci; Law’07) was named by ColoradoBiz magazine as one of the “Top 25 Most Influential Young Professionals in Colorado.” He was featured in Law Week Colorado and in Colorado Super Lawyers. He works in Denver for the firm Polsinelli, representing individuals and companies in business litigation. In July, he will serve as the first vice president of the Denver Bar Association. He and wife Elizabeth Murray (Psych’07) have a young son and newborn daughter.

Posted Jun. 1, 2015

An estimated seven million pieces of data are generated per second in the United States. At Virginia Tech University,Chao Wang (PhDElEngr) and a colleague are trying to develop new resource management tools for big data processing. They have a $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. Chao is an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering.

Posted Jun. 1, 2015

Working as the “box girl” for the Standard Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood required Lilibet Snellings (Jour’04) to sit in a giant glass box behind the hotel’s concierge desk for up to seven hours at a time. She wrote a book about her experience, Box Girl: My Part-Time Job as an Art Installation. The book has been featured in the Los Angeles Times and LA Weekly, and made Harper’s Bazaar’s “Hot List.” While at CU-Boulder, Lilibet ran cross-country under coach Mark Wetmore.

Posted Dec. 1, 2014

Mark Stockwell (Econ’04, Law’12) was appointed to the board of Denver’s Youth Opportunity Foundation to help raise awareness about the organization and provide strategic direction. The organization aims to raise funds to help provide mentoring, educational opportunities and life experiences to at-risk youth. Mark is an associate in Denver with the law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck.

Posted Dec. 1, 2014

ł˘˛ą·É˛â±đ°ůĚýJonathan Lucero (Fin’04, Law’07) was elected to serve on the board of directors of the Colorado Hispanic Bar Association. He works for a criminal defense and immigration law practice, Hernandez & Associates, in Denver. Jonathan resides in Westminster, Colo.

Posted Sep. 1, 2014

Alec Schiffer (Mktg’04) was appointed managing director for the western division of Trammell Crow Residential, a company specializing in the development of multifamily rental and condominium communities nationwide. He is responsible for land acquisition and all phases of multifamily real estate development. He previously served as vice president of acquisitions at Strata Equity Group in San Diego.

Posted Sep. 1, 2014

While sad to leave Boulder, Elliott Hood (Comm’04) and his wife Caroline Smith Hult (Hum’04) moved in March to Oklahoma City where Elliott got a job as federal clerk on the 10th circuit court of appeals. Caroline works for Teach For America and is featured in this issue.

Posted Jun. 1, 2014

At Lockheed Martin, Davin Anderson (MechEngr, MS’04) works as electrical test conductor for MAVEN, the $671-million mission to Mars that launched last November. He does planning, implementing, testing and documenting of the MAVEN subsystems and systems. He also solves hardware and software interface problems, defines input and output parameters and ensures integration of the entire MAVEN spacecraft. He lives in Colorado Springs and serves on the CU-Boulder Engineering Grads of the Last Decade (GOLD) board.

Posted Mar. 1, 2014

In Orange County Nicholas Kiefer (Mgmt’04) works as director of business development for the sustainability consulting firm Healthy Buildings. The company focuses on sustainability and LEED certification for commercial real estate and corporations. While at CU-Boulder Nicholas studied abroad with Semester At Sea and now works on projects internationally in South America, Africa, Europe and Asia. He is involved in the professional mentorship program at the Leeds School of Business. Nicholas lives in Laguna Woods, Calif.

Posted Mar. 1, 2014

±Ęłó´ÇłŮ´Ç˛µ°ů˛ą±čłó±đ°ůĚýBrian Peterson (EnvSt, Geol’04) co-created Photohoku to help disaster-plagued families restart their photo albums that were lost in the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in March 2011. A Tokyo resident of 10 years, he and teams of professional photographers visited families who lost their photos in the tsunami-ravaged regions and helped them start new albums by making family portraits on instant film. After the tornadoes hit Oklahoma last spring, Brian started Photoklahoma. Brian lives in Tokyo with his wife and family.

Posted Mar. 1, 2014

Last summer Kevin Reilly (MBA’04) launched a destination weight-loss organization in Denver called KoruCenter, which focuses on the holistic approach to an individual’s weight-loss journey. KoruCenter offers an all-inclusive and immersive environment to help clients achieve their fitness goals with nutrition, behavior management, clinical diagnostics and training. Learn more at . Kevin lives in Pueblo, Colo.

Posted Mar. 1, 2014

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