In June 2017,聽Alison (Ali)聽Bay聽(Jour) was appointed deputy press secretary in the Office聽of California Governor Jerry Brown Jr. Before that, she served as the deputy director for the California Department of Public Health鈥檚 Office of Public Affairs. Alison has lived in California for 20 years.
Posted Jun. 1, 2018
Cassandra Volpe Horii聽(Phys) was elected president of the Professional and Organizational (POD) Network in Higher Education, a professional organization dedicated to educational development. She will serve through spring 2019 then will join the executive board. In 2012, she became the founding director of the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Outreach at the California Institute of Technology.
Posted Jun. 1, 2018
Keith Schroeder (Kines) and his family returned to their home in Rushville, Ill., in late April after completing a fifth month-long mission trip to Togo, Africa.聽Keith, who is a physical therapist, spent three weeks at the Hospital of Hope in Mango teaching anatomy and physiology for nursing students. His wife Jennifer, who is a physician, and their two daughters, Olivia and Emma, worked at Hospital Baptiste Biblique in Adeta, Toga. 鈥淲e always enjoy our trips to Togo, seeing old friends, making new friends, and working with the great people of Togo,鈥 said Keith.
Posted Sep. 1, 2018
Heather Younger (Law) gave a TedX talk in Colorado Springs May 12 titled 鈥淒on鈥檛 Let Adversity Stop You.鈥 Heather is the author of the best-selling book The 7 Intuitive Laws of Employee Loyalty and founder of Customer Fanatix, a consulting and training firm. She lives in Aurora, Colo. with her husband and four children.
Posted Jun. 3, 2019
Steve Ziegler鈥檚 (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
Allison Case (ArchEngr) of Oak Park, Illinois, left a career in corporate real estate to start her own jewelry business. Allison鈥檚 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.聽
Posted Feb. 1, 2020
Former Denver Public Schools board of education director Arturo Jimenez (EthnSt; Law鈥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.聽
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.聽
Posted Feb. 1, 2020
President of Let鈥檚 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 鈥渟tems back to my CU days studying leadership and human organization in my PoliSci classes and within the PLC community.鈥 He lives in Denver.
Posted Jun. 1, 2020
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鈥檚 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 鈥渨orking 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.鈥
Posted Nov. 11, 2020
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 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鈥檚 creation of Clean Zonez Panels, which filter air at individual workstations, rooms and other spaces.
Posted Mar. 4, 2021
This January, Billy Humphrey (Engl) was featured on the Travel Channel鈥檚 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鈥檚 Finding Bigfoot on Valentine鈥檚 Day.
Posted Mar. 4, 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
Always working to keep his roots in the arts, Giovanni 鈥淕ino鈥 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.聽
Posted Jul. 2, 2021
Producer Michael Scheuerman鈥檚 (MTeleCom) film Hunger Ward was nominated for the 2021 鈥淏est Documentary Short Subject鈥 Academy Award. The 40-minute film examines the fallout from the six-year war in Yemen 鈥 specifically, the starvation of children. This was Scheuerman鈥檚 first production role. Sheuerman told the engineering college in April: 鈥淚 want to help tell stories that bring attention to important matters and help bring change.... Film is a powerful storytelling tool.鈥澛
Posted Jul. 2, 2021
In July, David Sholl (PhDApMath) became director of the Transformational Decarbonization Initiative at the U.S. Department of Energy鈥檚 Oak Ridge National Laboratory to elevate the lab鈥檚 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.聽
Posted Nov. 5, 2021
Solar physicist Martin Snow (PhDAstroPhys鈥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
搁耻尘补颈丑听础濒-搁耻尘补颈丑听(PhDElEngr鈥95) was appointed as Saudi Arabia鈥檚聽deputy minister of聽transport and logistic services. Rumaih was also聽assigned by royal decree as president of the Public聽Transport Authority,聽which oversees the kingdom鈥檚 land, railway and聽maritime transport.
Posted Nov. 7, 2022
Jenn Spinelli (Econ鈥95)聽is CEO of Watson Buys, a聽Denver-based home-buying company. In August,聽she was featured in an聽article, published聽by Wealth of Geeks, a聽financial education and聽pop culture site.
Posted Nov. 7, 2022
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