Alumni in Focus
- Barbara Pierpoint reflects on the importance of the arts in communities and how her love of the oboe lead her to a passion for music education.
- While researching for her dissertation, Evelyn Skoy found that Black Lives Matter protests are not associated with upticks in crime but are linked with fewer police killings of Black people.
- Learn about the work and achievements of several distinguished members of the CU community in a special series of videos. The series showcases how CU women have made a positive impact both on campus and in their own communities.
- Gerardo Muñoz says his favorite experience at ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï was simply discovering professors who "genuinely cared" about teaching. Muñoz himself now cares about teaching so much that he was named Colorado’s teacher of the year.
- Rock climber and ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï alumnus Garrett Cease uses wellness techniques with his students to bring a sense of balance into the classroom.
- Through his research, a ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï history graduate inspired the removal of a "Lost Cause" scholar’s name from a prestigious Civil War book award.
- Akhil Rao has won a dissertation award of which only two are given annually in recognition of unusually significant contributions to one's discipline.
- As research emerged showing wind and brass instruments could produce COVID-19-laden aerosols, ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï alumna Maddie Levinson began sewing French horn covers for school band programs across the state.
- On this episode of CU at the Libraries, alumnus Dan Fong and Megan Friedel, head of the University Libraries Archives, discuss Fong's work as a rock 'n' roll and counterculture photographer.
- As principal and co-founder of Empower Community High School, alumnus Wisdom Amouzou's goal is not just to ensure students progress from one grade level to the next, but to gradually give them the tools to run the school alongside parents and educators.