Students in Focus
Alana Horwitz, the College of Arts and Science's fall 2020 outstanding graduate, says she has her late father to thank for her success.
Autumn Tyler traveled 4,395 miles and took over a thousand photographs of Black LGBTQ+ artists for an exhibit. Now earning her PhD in media studies, Tyler writes the experience taught her that to move forward and grow, sometimes you must return to your roots.
Adam Forreider had been working toward a career in business when he began to doubt it was the right path for him. He changed his major to geology and transferred to CU Â鶹ӰԺ.
College students across Colorado are building science experiments that will travel into the stratosphere—and they are doing all the work at home.
Back in March, Teagan Browne’s phone rang from an unknown number. The call was to inform her she was a finalist for the prestigious Department of Defense SMART Scholarship. She gets her college costs covered and a job commitment upon graduation.
Jaret Anderson, a senior studying aerospace engineering, developed an interest in studying software engineering after adapting to online courses during the school year.
After graduating in May, Gabriella Abello spent the summer weighing all her options from graduate school to finding a job and more. Though creating a lot of uncertainty, the pandemic has also given many people time to reflect on what they really want.
Mariah Green moved to Â鶹ӰԺ for the CU Museum of Natural History's graduate program in museum and field studies. She ended up spending part of spring and the summer learning how to produce podcasts, as well as advancing her own paleontology research.
Adam Chehadi is an internship pro—he’s participated in technical internships since he was a junior in high school—but even he’s been thrown for a loop by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a new course, designed in part by students, participants delve into the interrelationship between COVID-19 and systemic racism. Anthony Fauci will be a special guest speaker.