Julie Marshall (MJour’95) initiated a ballot measure for the state of Colorado to end trophy hunting of mountain lions and fur trapping of bobcats. The effort now has the endorsement of more than 80 organizations, including the Colorado Sierra Club. As a homegrown journalist, Marshall has covered this issue for 30 years, including as a former opinion editor for the Boulder Daily Camera. She recently won first place for her lion columns from the Colorado Press Association. The campaign is called “Cats Aren’t Trophies,” and the website is . She encourages everyone to sign up and volunteer. Colorado voters will decide on the issue during the upcoming November election. Marshall is a public relations director for Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy, based in Washington, D.C. 

Posted Jul. 15, 2024

Rob James (Biochem, MCDBio’95) opened the Ramblebine Brewing Company in Grand Junction, Colorado, with a business partner in July 2020. The brewery is an integral part of the Grand Junction business community and is housed in a historic building that honors Grand Junction’s past. The brewery aims to be creative in both its style and recipes. Rob lives with his wife, Amanda Bailey James (EPOBio’95), in Grand Junction.

Posted Mar. 4, 2024

Attorney Monica Hartman Bullock (Engl, PolSci’95) of law firm Jackson Lewis was named principal. She works in the firm’s Riverside, California, office where she represents public and private employers in labor and employment law matters.

Posted Jul. 10, 2023

Joe Novak (MBA’95) and his wife, Whitney, of Atlanta, Georgia, are owners of Kazoo Toys, which celebrated its 10th anniversary in April. Kazoo Toys — named the Buckhead Business Associations’ Business of the Year in 2018 — provides the community with a selection of premium toys that allow for educational opportunities and fun. Joe sits on several committees for the American Specialty Toy Retailing Association, and the store is a member of The Good Toy Group. The Novaks, along with daughter Sierra, still love to visit Boulder and hit the slopes at Copper with friends.

Posted Jul. 10, 2023

¸éłÜłľ˛ąľ±łóĚý´ˇ±ô-¸éłÜłľ˛ąľ±łóĚý(PhDElEngr’95) was appointed as Saudi Arabia’s deputy minister of transport and logistic services. Rumaih was also assigned by royal decree as president of the Public Transport Authority, which oversees the kingdom’s land, railway and maritime transport.

Posted Nov. 7, 2022

Jenn Spinelli (Econ’95) is CEO of Watson Buys, a Denver-based home-buying company. In August, she was featured in an article, published by Wealth of Geeks, a financial education and pop culture site.

Posted Nov. 7, 2022

Solar physicist Martin Snow (PhDAstroPhys’95) became the first SARCHI research chair at the Space Weather Centre of South Africa (SANSA) in Hermanus, South Africa, in 2021. Martin researches ultraviolet solar spectral irradiance and serves as an investigator and instrument scientist for space missions. He was also a part of the Solar-Stellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment (SOLSTICE).

Posted Jun. 21, 2022

In July, David Sholl (PhDApMath) became director of the Transformational Decarbonization Initiative at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to elevate the lab’s prominence in carbon capture, conversion, utilization and storage. He is author of Success and Creativity in Scientific Research, a book which offers career advice to young scientists. 

Posted Nov. 5, 2021

Always working to keep his roots in the arts, Giovanni “Gino” Greco (Thtr), CEO of the American Red Cross of Colorado & Wyoming, was elected chairman of the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD), a special tax district authorized by Denver metro-area voters. With just a penny collected on every $10 spent in the district, the SCFD grants over $60 million annually across nearly 300 cultural organizations in support of arts and culture in the Denver metro area. Gino serves as the Jefferson County appointee to the SCFD Board. 

Posted Jul. 2, 2021

Producer Michael Scheuerman’s (MTeleCom) film Hunger Ward was nominated for the 2021 “Best Documentary Short Subject” Academy Award. The 40-minute film examines the fallout from the six-year war in Yemen — specifically, the starvation of children. This was Scheuerman’s first production role. Sheuerman told the engineering college in April: “I want to help tell stories that bring attention to important matters and help bring change.... Film is a powerful storytelling tool.” 

Posted Jul. 2, 2021

While living in Hawaii, Lisa Lucas (EnvCon) published her book, Seed to Sea: Kumulipo Connections Volume 1. She writes that she misses Colorado, her old home.

Posted Mar. 4, 2021

This January, Billy Humphrey (Engl) was featured on the Travel Channel’s Expedition Bigfoot for an encounter he allegedly had with the creature on his West Virginia property near the New River Gorge Bridge. Billy was a nonbeliever before the sighting, when he says he and his wife saw Bigfoot at about a 30-foot distance. He was also featured on Animal Planet’s Finding Bigfoot on Valentine’s Day.

Posted Mar. 4, 2021

As a junior at CU, Sande Golgart (Mktg) was a forward on the varsity basketball team. Almost 27 years later, as the president of California-based company Zonez, he has helped in the company’s creation of Clean Zonez Panels, which filter air at individual workstations, rooms and other spaces.

Posted Mar. 4, 2021

Adam Bedard (CivEngr), co-founder of ARB Midstream, was named a finalist for the Entrepreneur of the Year 2020 Mountain Desert Region Award, which honors entrepreneurial business leaders whose ambitions deliver innovation, growth and prosperity while creating companies that transform our world.

Posted Mar. 4, 2021

As a public librarian and arts advocate Cathy McKee, now CJ Di Mento, (Psych) led the designation effort for, and is now leader of, one of California’s first cultural districts, the Oceanside Cultural District in Oceanside, California. The designation effort was a competitive process with state legislators naming only 14 districts in the entire state. She writes she is “working in a vibrant community to help increase opportunities for arts and culture to thrive equitably without generating displacement in a time when arts organizations are severely impacted by COVID-19.”

Posted Nov. 11, 2020

President of Let’s Grow Leaders David Dye (PolSci) published a book, Courageous Cultures: How to Build Teams of Micro-Innovators, Problem Solvers and Customer Advocates, based on research from the University of Northern Colorado. Leadership is important to David, who wrote that his interest “stems back to my CU days studying leadership and human organization in my PoliSci classes and within the PLC community.” He lives in Denver.

Posted Jun. 1, 2020

Allison Case (ArchEngr) of Oak Park, Illinois, left a career in corporate real estate to start her own jewelry business. Allison’s love for crafting jewelry began on Pearl Street at the local bead shop and in Sewall Hall, where she would string together her own creations. 

Posted Feb. 1, 2020

Former Denver Public Schools board of education director Arturo Jimenez (EthnSt; Law’98) published his first book, Dreamers Nightmare: The US War on Immigrant LatinX Children. With more than 20 years of experience as an immigration attorney, Arturo examines political and social realities for DACA recipients. He lives in Denver. 

Posted Feb. 1, 2020

In October, Emily Wortman-Wunder (EPOBio) of Centennial, Colorado, won the 2019 Iowa Short Fiction Award for her book of short stories, Not a Thing to Comfort You. Emily teaches scientific writing at CU Denver. 

Posted Feb. 1, 2020

Steve Ziegler’s (Mktg) Denver-base recruiting firm, Z3 Talent, was named Best Staffing/Recruiting/Executive Search firm by Colorado Biz magazine. Steve founded Z3Talent in 2013 as a small boutique firm leveraging his 18 years as an entrepreneur and executive in the human capital industry. He is active in the Denver-Boulder business community and serves on a handful of advisory boards.

Posted Sep. 30, 2019

Pages