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Download Issue PAID PPCO U.S. Postage U.S. Non Profit Org. Alumni Magazine Summer 2017 THIS IS A CRICKET COULD IT BE THE FUTURE OF FOOD? Alumni Association 459 UCB 80309-0459 CO Boulder, ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: MYSTERIES OF THE TEENAGE BRAIN GIRL POWER: ALLEGRA BOGGESS (MUS’07) TRAINS AN ALL-FEMALE AFGHAN ORCHESTRA CU’S FIRST SUPREME COURT JUSTICE BRUCE LEE: SYMBOL OF THE MODERN WORLD NOWMARCH 2017 Wildfires burned about 2 million acres in the United States in the early months of 2017. Here a slurry bomber drops retardant on the Sunshine Canyon fire west of downtown Boulder on Sunday, March 19. No one was injured and no buildings were destroyed. Firefighters fully contained the 74-acre fire by the next afternoon. But residents of more than 400 homes were forced to evacuate temporarily. The wildfire likely began as a campfire, investigators said. Indeed, humans start most U.S. wildfires — 84 percent of them from 1992 to 2012, according to recent research by CU Boulder scientists. See page 7. 1 SUMMER 2017 Coloradan PhotoColoradan by Paul Aiken/ SUMMERDaily Camera2017 2 FEATURES EDITOR’S NOTE It was a Sunday morning 15 Superfood in April, sunny, not quite Will Americans eat insects? Dave Baugh warm. I was casting (Mgmt'10) and twin brother Lars are betting on it. about for an adven- ture for myself and my daughter Waverly, now 21 American Eclipse almost two. CU astronomer Douglas Duncan has some advice Might CU’s Museum of about this summer's total eclipse: Don't miss it. Natural History be open? Indeed, 10 to 4! Off to campus we 23 Mysteries of the Teenage Brain zoomed in our bright Teenagers think and act differently from grownups. orange Subaru. CU's Marie Banich is helping us see why. We parked at the alum- ni center, marched up Broadway, then weaved 27 Enter the Biography southeasterly past cam- In Kung Fu film star Bruce Lee, CU's Daryl pus cottages, brooks and Maeda sees a symbol of the modern world. bicycle racks. Beneath the climbing sun, remnant snowfall van- 29 No Piano? No Problem ished into crackling earth. Kristof Klipfel's (TAM'17) musical gloves turn There was no one around. any surface into a keyboard. By the museum entrance we paused to soak in the silence of 33 The Risk of Being Undistinguished the adjacent amphithe- Two CU Boulder scholars, one named Zax, find ater, vacant. We bathed value in having a last name that starts near A. in sunshine amid drip- ping snowmelt. Then we communed 37 Girl Power with fossil forms and For years, the Taliban banned music in Afghanistan. butterfly wings. Now the country has its first all-female orchestra — Waverly patted and Allegra Boggess (Mus’07) to thank. petrified wood. I pho- tographed her beside a Triceratops skull. She COVER Among people who eat insects, beheld a scarlet macaw. crickets are a common choice. Photo by All for the first time. iStock GlobalP (cricket) and Givaga (plate). What a place to be a child this university is! LEFT The 69th annual Conference on World Or a full-grown adult. Affairs brought thousands of people to cam- pus April 10-14 for nearly 200 talks, panels Eric Gershon and performances, including an improv aerial dance featuring Lena Gutschank, left. She is a founding member of the German circus research and lobby group Netzwerk Zirkus. Photo by Patrick Campbell. DEPARTMENTS 1 NOW Wildfire 8 BOULDER BEAT 35 INFOGRAPHIC 49 Sports 65 THEN Paul Danish Sleep Boulder in Summer 5 INQUIRY 55 Class Notes Lucy Sanders 11 LOOK Class of 2017 45 Alumni News 62 Letters CONTACT ERIC GERSHON AT 7 Campus News 13 ORIGINS CU in Court 47 Q&A with the Chancellor [email protected] 3 SUMMER 2017 Coloradan Coloradan SUMMER 2017 4 INQUIRY LUCY SANDERS COMPUTING POWER You served as R&D vice president How is CU Boulder doing? stand — homogenous cultures lead to Women represent more than half of all new and chief technology officer at Bell CU Boulder has been a long-time and group-think. Corporations need to look U.S. college graduates but receive fewer Labs. How’d you get into computing, active member of NCWIT. The Col- at diversity and inclusion as integral to than 20 percent of computer and informa- and did you ever find yourself think- lege of Engineering and the computer their business practices, not as some- tion science degrees. Former Bell Labs ing, ‘Where are all the other women?’ science department track and analyze thing optional. executive Lucy Sanders (MCompSci’78), My father ran a corporate computing data metrics, consider different approaches leader of the CU Boulder-based National center and my older sister got an early to recruiting, develop new curricular Are any industries or prominent Center for Women & Information Technolo- computing B.S. degree. So it was part of approaches and encourage student companies notably better at recruit- gy (NCWIT), is trying to fix that. our family conversation. I also had a high persistence. They also have amazing ing, retaining and promoting women school math teacher who taught us how outreach efforts that help build the in computing than others? There’s huge demand in our econ- to program BASIC and FORTRAN — she computing/engineering K-12 pipelines. Some are starting to make progress omy for workers with computing encouraged curiosity in us. Recently the College of Arts and Sci- and we are encouraged, but there is still skills and growing interest among Working at Bell Labs was an honor. ences introduced a new B.A. program a distance to go. We advocate public students. Why aren’t there more Although women and other minority that allows even more students to enroll transparency and publication of technical women in computing? groups never achieved representative in computing-related disciplines. CU un- diversity data as a first step. Several interrelated theories exist. First, parity, we were pretty darn close and derstands this is a long-distance race. society has associated computing with much better than what many organiza- What do young women interested in something men do — it has been gen- tions achieve today. What should industry be doing computing ask you most often? dered male. This means society harbors differently? I get a lot of questions about my early an unconscious bias about ‘who does What’s NCWIT’s general strategy for The cultures at many companies, large technical work. It’s pretty amazing tech,’ and it influences what we do: Who drawing women into computing and and small, have been justifiably criti- that a high school student today cares we encourage, who we hire, who we give helping them succeed? cized over the last few years. Often, about the history of the C programming visible technical jobs to, who we promote. NCWIT unites nearly 900 organizations members of historically marginalized language or the UNIX operating system. Second, the popular media has por- across the computing ecosystem to groups are finding unwelcome, if not They want to know everything about trayed technologists in less than flattering significantly increase girls’ and women’s hostile, cultures and find it hard to ‘how it was then’ at Bell Labs. It’s a lot roles — remember the computing geek in meaningful participation. NCWIT serves contribute their ideas. It’s critical that of fun to be around them. One of our Jurassic Park? as a ‘personal trainer,’ providing advice, technical products and services are students was funded by Mark Cuban on Finally, some argue the advent of the resources, tool kits and plug-and-play created by diverse engineers — if many Shark Tank, others started a tech com- home PC led parents to encourage their programs to help them achieve their di- types of people are involved, we will pany that won a best of show award at sons more than their daughters not only versity and inclusion goals. Both women solve problems differently and we will SXSW. They are amazing. to learn more about how to use a com- and men are involved as leaders, essen- solve different problems. puter, but to explore how it works. tial to achieving lasting outcomes. It’s really not that hard to under- Condensed and edited by Eric Gershon. 5 SUMMER 2017 Coloradan Photograph by Christopher Carruth Coloradan SUMMER 2017 6 BOULDER BEAT By Paul Danish SUMMER OF '67 About the only people who showed up “GREAT CAESAR’S GHOST!” THUNDERED more or less in real time were the hippies. Editor Eric. “This is the 50th anniversary Most CU students barely noticed. of the Summer of Love! Write something During the spring semester, some Col- about how it came down in Boulder!” orado Daily stories were still putting the Easier said than done, chief. The word hippie in quotation marks. Summer of Love — 1967, in case you’ve The real issues at CU were student forgotten, or weren’t born yet — happened power, education reform and the Viet- SUMMER 2017 on Hippie Standard Time (HST). nam War (which was taking place in News In Hippie Standard Time, things that Terrible Urgency of Now Time). happened last month really happened Students were starting to sweat over next Tuesday. And vice-versa. During the draft. Wildfire’s Human Touch the Summer of Love, things that The Student Peace Union was organiz- happened next Tuesday in Boulder hap- ing teach-ins. WILDFIRES CAN HAPPEN NATURALLY — BUT IN THE U.S., HUMANS START pened last month in San Francisco. And Paul Talmey (A&S’67; MBA’78) and MOST OF THEM con-versa. Got it? I (then a grad student) ran for student Boulder’s Summer of Love started in body president and vice president on a San Francisco in the dead of winter, on student power platform.
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