Alumni in Focus
For years, the Taliban banned music in Afghanistan. Now the country's first dedicated music school has debuted an all-female orchestra, with CU Â鶹ӰԺ music alumna and mentor Allegra Boggess to thank.
Two bodies of work exhibited in an official satellite site of Venice Biennale 2017, the oldest and arguably most prestigious visual arts event in the world, share close ties to CU Â鶹ӰԺ.
There are nearly 300,000 CU Â鶹ӰԺ alumni today. For a few moments on a spring day in 1882, there was just one: Henry Alexander Drumm.
Be part of the story: Use the hashtag #ForeverBuffs to be featured in the 2017 Spring Commencement Storify page.
CU Â鶹ӰԺ alumni Dale Grant and Julie Dutton, as part of one of the world's best-equipped earthquake teams at the National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC), are among the first to gather key details in a quake's immediate aftermath.
In 1959, the folk music craze sweeping America prompted several CU affiliates to produce a record titled "Folk Song Festival at Exodus," which would later propel one featured group to the Billboard charts and a young employee, Judy Collins, to true superstardom.
While Joyce Earickson's career focus has varied, her goals have remained constant: teaching, helping others and leading a meaningful life. "I think I’ve had to come to terms with wondering if everybody might have a wandering life like I’ve had . . . where they start out in something and then it morphs into something else and leads here and there."
For CU alumnus Michael P. Huseby, it’s always about education. "I came to Barnes & Noble because of the opportunity to improve our country’s higher education system . . . I wanted to do something that I could really feel good about in terms of making a contribution."
Alumna Ulyana Horodyskyj just spent 30 days in a 636-square-foot pod with three strangers and no internet access as part of NASA's Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA) project. Now she's one of 120 finalists, out of 18,300 applicants, under consideration for the real Astronaut Candidate Program.
At the end of August, Chris Lehnertz (EPOBio’85) became the 19th superintendent of Grand Canyon National Park, one of the most famous and visited in the National Park system. The first woman to oversee Grand Canyon since it was first set aside as public space more than 100 years ago, Lehnertz is at home in America’s magnificent public spaces.