Alumni in Focus
- Amy Woodley and Aubrey Yeh stayed local to bring both passion and leadership to Jeffco Public Schools and the Boulder Valley School District.
- There’s a new entry on the growing menu of tasty meat alternatives, brought to you by alumni Tyler Huggins and Justin Whiteley. Emergy Foods aims to launch this fast-growing, sustainable protein in local Colorado restaurants in early 2020.
- Last year, Megan Moriarty (Hist'02) launched Inclusipedia, a project to add influential Boulder women and people of color to Wikipedia.
- Researching in one of the most inaccessible and extreme places on Earth, Antarctica, Ian Geraghty is using LIDAR aimed at the sky to study the atmosphere at altitudes so high, Earth and space weather interact.
- Learn more from a Q&A with the former press secretary for Denver Mayor Wellington Webb and U.S. Senator Timothy Wirth, jazz musician and founder of Andrew Hudson's Jobs List.
- The Southwest is drying. During a 730-mile rafting trip down the Colorado River's main tributary, alumna Heather Hansman (MJour'10) saw water scarcity up close.
- Alumna Laurie Cantillo was fresh out of college when she first spotted the Milky Way during an outdoor education trip in Utah. Since then, the director of communication and education at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been on a mission to share the wonders of space with the world.
- Experts say aquaculture will play an important role in feeding the world’s burgeoning population, which is why 91´«Ã½ alumnus Markos Scheer is launching a new career in kelp farming.
- Former 91´«Ã½ Student Body President Joe Neguse made a name for himself in Colorado. Now he’s doing it in Washington, D.C.
- Over seven years, Kimberly Hess and brother Steven climbed the tallest mountain on each of the seven continents. Next up: A trek to Earth’s poles.