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Graduate students and artists Alejandra Abad (MFA’21) and Román Anaya (MFA’21), known as Abad Anaya, created colorful art flags to inspire hope after the challenges of 2020. The duo hopes to change the perception of divisiveness often associated with flags as symbols. Their flags contain uplifting phrases in multiple languages that were painted, printed, sewn or ironed on by members of the Boulder and Denver communities. Earlier this year, the flags were on display in Denver's Art District on Santa Fe and the Boulder One Plaza.

Alejandra Abad FEATURES EDITOR’S NOTE

In 2020 the U.S. saw record wildfires and hur- ricanes. NASA reported it as one of the hottest years in recorded history. As a public research institution, CU is called to address global challenges. The Coloradan aims to examine and celebrate how the university is influencing the world and shaping a better future. To align with this vision, each issue moving forward will feature stories that examine a topic affecting our world and highlight how CU is creating impact through its collective work and research. This spring, the topic is climate change. To further engage readers, the new Coloradan Conversations series will expand on the magazine topics, gathering thought leaders to discuss the most pressing issues of our day. If the topic and the COVER Members of CU 17 33 stories pique your Boulder’s multi-disciplinary Frozen in Ice, Frozen in Time Sweet Gig MOSAiC research study ven- In the name of climate change research, hundreds of A fifth-generation candymaker, Jessica Dee interest, join the next Coloradan tured into the Arctic to learn CU researchers and students spent time frozen into Sawyer (ArtHist’03) is helping bring the family Conversa- more about climate change. the Arctic sea ice on the RV Polarstern. business into the 21st century. tion for a larger climate Photo by Lianna Nixon. change dialogue with other readers. For ABOVE World-class saxophon- 23 A Walk in Two Worlds 35 How to Cope in a Pandemic more information, visit: ist and CU Boulder alum Tia American Indians and archaeologists have had a The pandemic has worsened an already precarious colorado.edu/coloradan/ Fuller (MMus’00) shows off long and often fractious history. Carlton Shield mental health crisis. CU psychology professors conversations her talent in the Disney/Pixar Chief Gover (PhDAnth’22) is trying to change that. share tools to improve mental health in isolation. movie Soul. In her Coloradan interview, she delves into Maria Kuntz jazz, performance, teaching 25 39 and soul. Photo courtesy Breath of Fresh Air Full of Soul CONTACT THE EDITOR AT © 2020 Disney/Pixar. Jessica Gilman (PhDChem’06) gives a bird's-eye World-renowned saxophonist Tia Fuller [email protected] view of how wildfires and the pandemic are (MMus’00) shines as the instrumental talent changing the climate and affecting our health. behind Pixar’s new movie Soul. DEPARTMENTS

1 NOW 7 Campus News 15 ORIGINS 45 CU Around 55 Class Notes Flags of Hope University Portfolio 8 Boulder Beat 47 Chancellor’s Essay 61 Feedback 5 INQUIRY Pearl Street 31 Infographic Sun Research Shelly Miller 49 Sports 65 THEN Memory Lane 13 LOOK Alamo Bowl 43 Alumni News

3 COLORADAN SPRING 2021 44 INQUIRY Shelly Miller

that kind of interaction we don't know about. In way to cleanse the air. is by wearing well-fit- fact, my friend, whose There are a lot of ionizers ting masks at all times. daughter plays oboe at a being sold, and there’s no The second (long-range college in Minnesota, said, scientific support for their transmission) requires ‘Oh, my daughter is using efficacy. In fact, some data cleaning the air and mak- your mitigation strategies.’ show that they can cause ing sure good ventilation I didn't even know, so that worse problems. So, it’s systems are in place. was pretty cool. important to try and help people understand which What should people be Since the pandemic types of air cleaner are ef- doing at home? Make started, you’ve been fective versus which ones sure you can open your busier than ever. Your are just a marketing hoax. windows — even small email signature alludes openings will help. If to the fact that you What changes do you your exhaust hood vents are juggling hundreds anticipate happening outside, turn it on with a of emails a day, work, in indoor environ- window open. Also, run family, sleep and well- ments post-COVID? I your furnace, because the ness. How have people hope people understand air will circulate through a responded to your that their environments pretty coarse filter. If you endeavor for balance? affect their health, and don't have an air cleaner, At first, so many of my your home is not guaran- stay socially distant and colleagues — especially my teed to be a healthy place wear masks if sharing the female colleagues — got — you need to work to air with others that might back to me and said, ‘I love make it healthy. Instead When it be infectious. your signature. I'm going of just making buildings comes Aerosol Superstar to live per- to do that,’ and they did. I thermally comfortable, we In 2020, you did formance, Shelly Miller solves problems she cares about. As a safety COVID-centered re- CU Boulder mechanical engineering professor, her comes first. search related to the YOUR HOME IS NOT expertise on aerosols, indoor air pollution and urban performing arts. What air quality catapulted her to a global spotlight in 2020, do you think the future GUARANTEED TO BE A giving her the chance to make huge world changes, looks like for musi- Shelly Miller HEALTHY PLACE — fast. She discusses her work, the pandemic and what cians? We have been it’s like being suddenly in high demand. really successful mitigat- YOU NEED TO WORK TO ing risk in music classes and marching bands. We MAKE IT HEALTHY. When you ﬁ rst be- What are aerosols and ing, ‘This looks airborne. haven’t had a single report- came an engineer, how do they impact We have to tell people ed transmission to date in what were the prob- health? Aerosols are sim- how to keep themselves music programs following thought that was a really im- need to provide enough lems you cared about ply particles suspended in safe indoors.’ Outbreaks our guidance. Mitiga- portant statement to make. outside air ventilation and are now trying to a gas. The particles can be led us to quickly realize tion measures are quite and good filtration in solve? Growing up in made of anything and can that most transmission limiting, but I wouldn’t Some might call you energy-efficient ways to California, we were sent be solid or liquid. They are was happening indoors. recommend playing an aerosol superstar. I maintain health. home from school for a main cause of adverse music without them. I think don’t know if I feel like a bad air quality days. In health effects and a major What are the biggest professional musicians are complete superstar, but I What do you hope environmental engineer- contribution to air pollution. challenges facing going to need to be tested do feel that I have a way we learned from this ing classes, it really schools? Schools need daily or weekly to be able of communicating science pandemic about how clicked for me that my When did you realize to understand the two to do their work. that speaks to a lot of peo- indoor spaces impact interest in air pollution the link between your main routes of aerosol ple. There’s an audience health? I hope we learn was related to growing work and COVID-19 transmission and how How many schools that really learns from to trust science again up in California. research demands? I to mitigate those routes. have you been working what I have to say. That and know that there is I think of the envi- worked on engineering The first is short-range with locally or national- feels important to me. a scientific process we ronment as a shared controls for tuberculosis exposure. This happens ly? When we first shared go through that evolves resource. I want to transmission for my PhD within personal spaces — our research, people were What new directions and new answers come preserve and improve dissertation. After COVID a teacher standing over calling from places like are you taking with from it. I feel like we’ve the quality of the air, showed up in the U.S., my a student or kids working Germany, France and your research? I would moved away from that. water and environment colleagues and I started on a project together. Florida. There are proba- be interested in doing INTERVIEW BY MARIA KUNTZ. for everybody. emailing each other say- The only way to mitigate bly hundreds of schools research showing the best CONDENSED AND EDITED.

5 COLORADAN Glenn Asakawa SPRING 2021 6 CAMPUSnews BOULDER BEAT Pearl Street Paving the Way Former CU Postdoc Wins 2020 Nobel Prize Jennifer Doudna smashes the glass ceiling with her historic recognition in chemistry.

fter biochemist Jennifer Doudna learned she had won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry at 2:53 a.m. on Oct. 7, the first thing she did was make A co£ee — then wake up her teenage son. “I said, ‘Guess what? I just won the Nobel Prize,’” she laughed. “You don’t hear that every morning.” Doudna, a former CU Boulder postdoc, won the prize for co-development of the genome editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 with French microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier — the first time a science Nobel had been won by two women together. “It’s really important for people that have been traditionally un- derrepresented in certain fields to feel appreciated, to feel like their 1970s Boulderites stroll down the newly paved Pearl Street pedestrian walkway. work can be recognized,” she said. “This prize in particular makes that statement.” In 1963, Boulderites Street in an old VW van. ribbon-cutting, but Boulder Now a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Doudna’s started thinking about im- Following us was a public residents and CU students career began at CU in 1991 in the lab of Thomas Cech, a distinguished proving Pearl Street with works crew that closed were already flocking to it professor of chemistry, who had won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry a pedestrian mall. each block — the last car by the thousands. two years earlier. But just why did Pearl to drive down Pearl Street The next few years “He built an amazing group of people and an incredible lab filled Street need attention? — as we rode past. were sheer magic as Pearl with smart, hardworking, interesting people, many of whom are still Boulder, which banned Today, that stretch Street came to life. some of my best friends in science,” she said. alcohol sales in 1907, is graced by Beat Book New restaurants and Decades later, the Nobel Foundation honored Doudna and Charpen- was still dry in the early Store, the County Court- businesses opened. tier for their discovery that a gene-cutting molecule known as Cas9, 1960s. Unfortunately, house and the Avanti The Häagen-Dazs ice Biochemist which is used naturally by bacteria to kill viruses, can be re-engineered this meant all of the post- indoor food court. cream shop replaced the Jennifer as a precise gene-editing tool. World War II commercial Within days, crews venerable Valentine’s Doudna won the prize for The technology is already being used in labs around the world, with growth took place outside began digging up the Hardware store on the co-devel- potential to treat genetic diseases and cancer, engineer crops and city limits. street’s decades-old southwest corner of opment of address climate change. Then, the Crossroads water, sewer and gas Pearl and Broadway — a genome “A few years ago, it sounded like science fiction,” said Doudna. “But Shopping Center opened lines before the city spent but not before the sheriff editing tool. now it’s actually happening.” BY EMILY HENINGER in 1962, sucking business millions paving over new carried a box of crystal- from downtown Boulder infrastructure with the lized dynamite out of like a black hole. now-famous red brick. Valentine’s basement. Years passed, and city On Halloween 1976, So many musicians want- council members began several hundred cos- ed to perform on the mall, to wonder if the historic tumed pedestrians the city created a two-musi- streets of downtown ventured downtown to cian-per-block limit. still held interest for the inspect the work and Boulder discovered it community. strut their stuff. This had not just improved In 1976, ten years after was the impetus of Pearl Street — it had built the original idea, the City a now long-standing a sprawling village square Council agreed to the annual tradition; today, that redefined the look, feel walkway. I had just joined a trip to Pearl Street and character of the town. the council and was able Mall on Oct. 31 is sure to In retrospect, I think it to cast a vote in favor of delight even plainclothes did something else: The building the mall. tourists or locals. Pearl Street Mall drew On a glorious morn- The final brick was laid Boulderites and the uni- ing in June of 1976, a in the spring of 1977. In ear- versity community closer friend and I cruised Pearl ly August, we had a formal together. BY PAUL DANISH

7 COLORADAN Innovative Genomics Institute, UC Berkeley Downtown Boulder Partnership SPRING 2021 8 WHAT’S IN MY PHONE Stefanie K. Johnson CAMPUSnews APPS

Most-used apps Are Our Kids Stefanie K. Outlook Email Johnson is an associate pro- Tech Obsessed? fessor at Leeds and director of CU research finds technology use in children and teens the CU Boulder may not be as dire as many assume. Center for Text Messages Leadership. ut your phone away!” “No more video games!” “Ten more minutes of She is an expert “ YouTube, and you’re done!” on leadership, P Kids growing up in the mobile internet era have heard it all, often inclusion and uttered by well-meaning parents fearing too much screen time could mitigating bias Find my iPhone spur lasting problems. in the work- But a series of studies by CU Boulder sociology professor Stefanie place. Her Mollborn suggests such fears may be overblown. book Inclusify, “What the data suggests is that the majority of American teens are not released by becoming irrevocably addicted to technology,” said Mollborn. HarperCollins For her multi-year project, Mollborn analyzed national surveys, inter- in June, hit Most-used viewed kids and young adults and followed 20 families over the years as the Wall Street emoji their technology use changed. Journal Nation- Since 1997, she found, digital technology use has risen 32% among 2-to- al Bestseller List 5-year-olds and 23% among 6-to-11-year-olds. Even before the pandemic, in its ﬁ rst week adolescents spent 33 on the market. hours per week using it outside of school. Model: Such trends have iPhone XS with a led to what Mollborn credit card case describes as a “moral panic” much like that which arose with the birth of comic books, radio and TV. “We see that everyone is drawn to it, we get iPhone Insights scared and we assume it is going to ruin today’s How soon after waking up do you dressed up as pirates and took pho- youth,” she said. look at your phone? It’s usually the tos of ourselves. Apparently pirate is But as it turns out, first thing I look at after hugging the not a good look for me. teens have, in many ways, kids, feeding my cats breakfast and just swapped one form Children drinking a glass of water. What’s the main thing you use your of tech for another — streaming YouTube instead of watching TV or texting phone for? may be less Mostly email. If I kept my tech-ad- instead of talking on the phone. Compared to 2002, teens spent only about Last person you called: One of my email open while I worked, I would do dicted than 40 minutes more per week in technology-focused activities in 2016. former PhD students, now a Univer- nothing but email. So, I try to do it on previously And in most cases, the research found, tech use does not crowd out sity of Memphis professor, to talk my phone when I am taking a break perceived, sleep or exercise. about a study we are doing on wheth- or done with work for the day. says CU Surprisingly, things like setting time limits or prohibiting kids from er sexual harassment exists in the Boulder watching shows during mealtimes appear to have no e£ ect on how time of COVID. Spoiler — it does. Lock screen or background image? research. much those kids use technology as adults. A picture of my kids and I on the beach “What we do as parents matters less than most of us believe it will,” Duration of longest call last week: last January in Cozumel, Mexico. Mollborn said. An hour. All this is not to say that no one ever gets addicted, or that parents How many hours were you on your shouldn’t talk to their kids about tech’s pros and cons. Location of last selﬁ e: My kids’ phone last week? One hour and 46 But amid a pandemic, when even playdates have to happen on playroom at home. My son Kyle and I minutes per day. screens, her work suggests parents may have one less thing to worry about. BY LISA MARSHALL

9 COLORADAN Courtesy Stefanie K. Johnson Courtesy iStock/nazar_ab SPRING 2021 10 ARTIFACT Slide Rule Better Accuracy Slide rules increased the CAMPUSnews Complex Math speed and accuracy of More elaborate slide rules mathematical calculations allowed for calculations previously done by hand. Created by Fuse Studio DIGITS such as square roots, from the Noun Project Leeds + Techstars of her lifelong career in SWEAT EFFECTS exponentials, logarithms and Elevate education teaching students trigonometric functions. Human sweat and A new partnership created in the South during the Jim bleach cleaners mix to in November 2020 be- Crow era and in Chicago create new airborne tween the Leeds School of public schools. Temporary chemicals in gyms. One Business and Techstars, a Building 1 will be renamed CU study says this could startup accelerator, o£ ers “Albert and Vera Ramírez affect air quality. CU students and graduates Temporary Building 1” to thousands of job opportuni- honor the academic and ties with companies in the community engagement Techstars Portfolio, like the contributions of Professor email platform SendGrid Emeritus Albert Ramírez and the ﬁ tness subscription and his late wife, Vera. 90%Approximate amount of platform ClassPass. The time people spend indoors program also o£ ers stu- Electronic Skin dents the chance to become — the New FitBit? Person associates of Techstars’ CU chemistry and mechan- exercising accelerator teams around ical engineering researchers emits as many the world. Sharon Matusik, have developed an “elec- chemicals dean of the business school, tronic-skin” made from Mid-Century as five resting described the program as screen-printed wires and Decline people a “game-changer” for both self-healing material that Slide rule use declined students and alumni. could potentially replace as computers and wearable ﬁ tness devices. scientific calculators 1 became more widely Honoring Inclu- According to the research, available to technical led by CU mechanical engi- sive Excellence workers during the In February, the CU Board neering associate professor 1960s and 1970s. of Regents approved a Jianliang Xiao and CU Additional airborne resolution to rename two chemistry professor Wei Six buildings honoring alumni Zhang, this electronic skin compounds created from A Versatile Tool sweat-produced amino who embody inclusive can help quell electronic With its range of accuracy (the acids and bleach products excellence. The education waste, which is projected to The Size manufacturer claimed up to five building will be renamed for pass 55 million tons by 2021. This specific cylinder is 4 significant figure precision), this scale Lucile Berkeley Buchanan “We want a device that is inches in diameter and 18 appealed to engineers, architects, (Ger1918) in recognition easy to recycle,” said Xiao. inches in length. businesspeople and scientists.

Created by Iconstock from the Noun Project Heard Around Campus “THE U.S. IS RESPONSIBLE Computing Before Unique compounds directly FOR ABOUT 25% OF HIS- 69emitted from people exer- the Computer cising in gyms TORIC CO2 EMISSIONS AND Before the rise of scientiﬁ c calculators and computers in the 1960s NEEDS TO TAKE LEAD- and 70s, cylindrical slide rules were used to complete multiplica- Forty-Nine ERSHIP IN ADDRESSING tion, division and other complex mathematical operations. Unique compounds This particular slide rule — known as Thacher’s Calculating originating from personal CLIMATE CHANGE. WE HAVE Instrument — was donated to the university by the late William care products released ALREADY EXPERIENCED J. Hanna (ElEngr’43; MS’48; PhD’51), an engineering professor by people exercising who taught at CU Boulder for 46 years. It was purchased in the SEVERE IMPACTS, INCLUD- early 1920s. Edwin Thacher, a computing engineer who designed railway ING EXTREME STORMS, bridges for Pittsburgh’s Keystone Bridge Company, ﬁ rst patented EXTENSIVE DROUGHTS AND this slide rule in 1881. The model pictured above was produced by Keu£ el & Esser Co. in New York in 1902-03 and cost $35. Today, its 78%of deodorant applied in RECORD WILDFIRES.” estimated value is $1,050 and it is part of the CU Heritage Center the morning evaporates — Professor Charles Kutscher in an interview with CU Boulder Today collections. from the body by noon published on Dec. 16, 2020

11 COLORADAN Mona Lambrecht SPRING 2021 12 LOOK Alamo Bowl

Alamo Bowl Though many Forever Buffs had to watch the game from afar, they still found creative ways to cheer for their team at the 2020 Valero Alamo Bowl in San An- tonio, Texas. Over the winter holiday weekend, these tried-and-true fans proved holiday cheer and team spirit are one and the same, as alumni, family, friends, students and pets all donned Buffs gear to show their support. Pandemic or not, Buffs pride can’t be stopped.

13 COLORADAN (From top, left to right) @massecarrie; University of Colorado; @ktrhandler; SPRING 2021 14 @caseydonnelly618; @Jaredepsny; @lauralopp ORIGINS University Portfolio

Harold Thompson

Henry Drumm

Helen Beardsley

Reporting from CU

n December 1879, CU Boulder classes were just over two years into exis- Several of the businesses and individuals who paid for advertisements tence. The newly constructed $40,000 Old Main building sat on 51 acres of in the newspaper were among the 104 original donors who secured the I land donated to the university. Buckingham Library, situated on the second university for Boulder. fl oor, had 1,500 volumes. Seventy-eight students attended the university. After ceasing publication in 1885 for budgetary reasons, the paper It was time to report the news. was revived as The Portfolio in 1889 for another three-year run after the “We have not a large number of students and no loyal alumni to whom Regents approved $100 in annual fi nancial support. That year, Helen we can look for assistance,” declared CU’s fi rst student newspaper, Beardsley (A&S1889) became the paper’s fi rst woman editor-in-chief. Read University Portfolio, in its inaugural issue. “But we feel sure that there are Student literary and poetic writings became a staple aspect of the paper. today’s many warm friends of the University and students in all parts of the State.” The Silver and Gold took over as CU’s student newspaper in Septem- CU Boulder University Portfolio initially ran from December 1879 through October ber 1892. It printed weekly at the request of then-CU president James H. student 1885 and ranged from three to six issues per school year. An annual Baker, who wanted the publication to better keep pace with the news from news at thebold subscription cost $.25, and a single copy cost $.05. Harold Thompson the growing university. Silver and Gold left behind much of the student cu.com or The Portfolio (A&S1882) and Henry Drumm (A&S1882), among CU’s fi rst six gradu- literary submissions carried to free space for advertisements cuindepen ates, served as editors. and news about sporting events, clubs and on-campus activities. dent.com. “To all healthy college humor we will gladly open our columns. To Its fi nal issue printed Aug. 22, 1952, giving way to the Colorado matters of educational and literary interest we will devote what space Daily, which thrived for 20 years on campus before becoming an inde- we can,” the sta£ wrote in their opening letter. pendent paper, and later, part of Boulder’s Daily Camera newspaper. The Portfolio’s fi rst issue lamented the lack of a university glee club, Today, CU Boulder has two student newspapers, The Bold, funded reported anticipation for the upcoming Christmas holiday and ex- by the College of Media, Communication and Information, and the CU claimed that Dr. Sewall — CU’s fi rst president — would work the eight Independent, which is currently seeking funding sources separate from chemistry students 15 hours a day if he could. the university. BY CHRISTIE SOUNART

15 COLORADAN Carnegie Library for Local History Collection SPRING 2021 16 A CU team froze their ship in Arctic ice in the name of science and storytelling. BY KELSEY SIMPKINS

17 COLORADAN SPRING 2021 18 When the sea ice shifted beneath him, But MOSAiC had many more moving sending a crack straight between his pieces. Shupe, who co-coordinated the two feet, Matthew Shupe didn’t panic. expedition, and his colleagues gathered He calmly looked at his precious sci- funding from 20 nations and made entific equipment — installed only four sure that over 400 people — many of feet away — and debated the merits of whom had never been to the Arctic moving or leaving it. This was just one of before — could travel to and from the RV Polarstern on one or more of the five transports that occured between Sep- tember 2019 and October 2020. IT WAS A ONCE- Scientists from 37 nations covering di£erent disciplines and a wide range of IN-A-LIFETIME career stages — including 35 researchers from CU Boulder and its Cooperative EXPERIENCE FOR Institute for Research in Environmental Studies (CIRES) — came together for THE SCIENTISTS this once-in-a-lifetime chance to tell stories of the Arctic. ON BOARD... “It didn’t matter if you were from China, Russia, the U.S. or Germany. the daily dilemmas he and his team faced We were all a team,” said Shupe, senior atop the Arctic Ocean. research scientist at CIRES and the Tomorrow, they would head out onto National Oceanic and Atmospheric the ice and do it all again. Administration (NOAA). “It teaches us In fact, Shupe (MAtmos’06; PhD’07) about humans and our ability to work to- was in one of the safest places in the world gether on shared priorities and interests.” at the time. As the COVID-19 pandemic Researchers brought cutting-edge tech- developed and spread across the world in nologies to the ice, opening new avenues late 2019 into 2020, he and hundreds of of scientific insight and gathering almost a others purposely froze themselves into the thousand di£erent types of measurements. Arctic Ocean sea ice on the RV Polarstern, Atmospheric scientists like Shupe worked thousands of miles from land. Their only unplanned visitors were the occasional wandering polar bear or fox. A MISSION TO The crew conducted groundbreaking scientific research, studying everything from the atmosphere above their heads to GATHER AS the sea ice beneath their feet during the largest expedition of its kind in history. MUCH DATA AS MOSAiC, the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Cli- POSSIBLE ABOUT mate, was an international e£ort led by the Alfred Wegener Institute with a mission to THE ARCTIC gather as much data as possible about the Arctic while deliberately stuck in it. WHILE DELIBER- It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience for the scientists on board, and for science ATELY STUCK IN IT. worldwide, as climate change rapidly threatens the existence of Arctic sea ice, alongside those who study everything which may disappear entirely in the sum- from physics to biology, a rare interdisci- mer by 2035. plinary experience in the Arctic that will allow for deeper insight into the data. An Icy Oasis Transporting five groups of crewmem- MOSAiC was an international feat and bers back and forth safely during a global the culmination of more than 12 years of pandemic — without an outbreak on the work. The expedition was modeled on ship — was perhaps the most ambitious sci- Shupe’s first time in the Arctic 22 years entific experiment of the entire expedition. ago, when he spent seven months on a While most of the world was living in ship frozen in sea ice. quarantine, the isolated researchers only

19 COLORADAN Lianna Nixon SPRING 2021 20 wore masks to guard their faces from the in hindsight. “Getting on the ship and “I realized, there's nothing I can do. Telling the Arctic Story cold. They could hug each other, shake starting an expedition, I had no thoughts But what can I do to make the best of With the mission complete and the crew hands and share meals indoors. “There that anything would be disrupted.” this moving forward?” Jozef said. “It’s home, they face a new kind of challenge: a were days I did not think one bit about In the weeks to come, she would find improved my ability to just accept things world still facing the e£ects of COVID-19. the virus,” said Shupe. herself and many others huddled in the and not try to fight the situation, which Nixon remembers the last time she The first time Gina Jozef (PhDAt- stairwell of the resupply ship, searching was very helpful in these times.” could hug anyone freely. In October, crew- mos’24) heard about COVID-19, she was for a signal on WhatsApp to find out Most days the air was thick with fog, mates squeezed each other tight knowing sitting in a hotel lobby in Tromso, Nor- how quickly the world south of them was a challenge not only for the scientists that once they left the ship, they would way. It was January 2020 and MOSAiC’s changing. It was taking twice as long as but also for the photographers and film- enter a socially distanced world. third crew was preparing to head north expected to reach the Polarstern and Jozef makers on board. Now, MOSAiC’s legacy lives on through feared they might have to turn back. Luck- Tasked with documenting the work on its data, its relationships and its eye-open- ily, and despite arriving behind schedule, board to educate the public about MO- ing message for the public. their leg of the mission was extended. SAiC’s scientific mission, Amy Richman “We’re all part of the Arctic story, no mat- YOU NEVER KNEW (MFA’19), who filmed the first leg of the ter where we live. And I think that we have Everyday Adventures expedition, struggled to keep camera a responsibility now that scientists have WHAT WAS GOING Jozef and her team, who needed to gather batteries warm long enough to capture key brought back this knowledge to continue to meteorological measurements of the atmo- shots. Lianna Nixon (Class’17; MEdu’21), be part of that narrative,” said Nixon. TO HAPPEN WHEN sphere, were initially threatened by minus who filmed and photographed the mission For Shupe, the planning and fieldwork 40 F temperatures. Luckily they resumed for CIRES and the Alfred Wegener Insti- is done, but a wealth of data now waits to YOU STEPPED ON their drone flight work when it warmed up tute, fell through the ice more than once be explored — a crucial part of the scien- to a balmy minus 22 F. — but only up to her knees. tific process. THE ICE. “Every single day was a new, very Despite the ever-present challenges, “There’s so many fantastic stories in that exciting adventure,” said Jozef. “You never Nixon was inspired to capture “the joy and data that we just have to reveal, we have to on a resupply vessel to the Polarstern. knew what was going to happen when you passion of scientists on the field every day.” find them,” said Shupe. “Now is a time to The latest news about the virus flashed stepped on the ice.” “We were out there to get the story of really look forward to.” across the lobby TV: Still mostly in China. She kept busy gathering data out on the Arctic, and then tell that story and what MOSAiC was funded in part by the “I remember thinking, I hope that the ice, but there were weeks when might happen to the Arctic using the data,” National Science Foundation, National doesn't get to the U.S., but it's probably Jozef was left wondering how they said Jackson Osborne, an associate scientist Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration fine,” recalls Jozef, laughing nervously would ever return home. for CIRES during MOSAiC. and the U.S. Department of Energy.

21 COLORADAN SPRING 2021 22 ust after World War II, Carl- Today, he sees that di£ erence as an ton Shield Chief Gover’s asset. As a graduate student in Wyoming (PhDAnth’22) grandfather was and now at CU, he’s made the case that facing an uncertain future in archaeologists need to do a better job of Oklahoma. Philip Gover was a incorporating Indigenous oral traditions member of the Pawnee Nation of Okla- into their research. homa, an American Indian nation outside He touched on the Pawnee story of Tulsa. He had lost his arm fi ghting in Closed-Man — a leader who, according to Italy and was struggling to complete his tradition, gathered communities of Amer- undergraduate degree. ican Indians in what is today Nebraska That’s when one of his professors pulled to found the Skidi Federation, one of the him aside and delivered the blunt assess- four tribes that comprise the modern-day ment: “What is a one-armed Indian going Pawnee Nation. to do without an education in this country?” Archaeologists have unearthed evi- Philip Gover doubled down on his dence of the cultural shift that followed studies. He fi nished his degree in roughly 600 years ago at places like the elementary education, then went on Lynch Site. It’s marked by a transition to teach English to Navajo children — from communities living in small, square- carving a path between the worlds of the shaped homes to much larger earth Pawnee, or Chaticks-si-Chaticks (which lodge towns. But spoken stories fi ll in translates to “Men of Men”), and the details that are beyond the scope of those Chaticks-Taka (“white man”). chronological records: the names of peo- “My grandfather was born in a tent ple like Closed-Man, why the groups came in 1906, wasn’t even a U.S. citizen until together to form a federation and, even the 1920s,” Shield Chief Gover said. “My more broadly, what these early Americans family has always strived to be worthy of thought and what motivated them. his sacrifi ces.” “Archaeology is really about trying to It’s a tightrope act that Shield Chief fi gure out human behavior,” Shield Chief Gover continues to walk two generations Gover said. “But people’s thoughts and later. He’s a PhD student in the CU beliefs, their dreams, don’t preserve in Boulder anthropology department. The the archaeological record. If we talk to the researcher is among the fi rst Pawnee descendants of these communities, we can citizens to ever pursue graduate training fi nd a modern analogue for those questions.” in archaeology. The road hasn’t always been easy. As Shield Chief Gover explained: Roger Echo-Hawk (Hist’90; MA’94), a “Archaeology is an inherently colonial Pawnee citizen and historian living in practice.” But the young researcher joins Boulder, agreed. He’s collaborated with a growing number of Indigenous ar- Shield Chief Gover, and they both argue chaeologists who are working to change that taking oral traditions seriously can that — embracing knowledge from both make archaeological research better. Indigenous communities and the halls of “The more we know about history, the American academia. more ways we have to be ourselves,” Echo- Archaeology has also given Shield Chief Hawk said. “If we just have the archaeology Gover a way to connect with the past, pres- or oral traditions, those are interesting in- ent and future of his people. Since coming sights. But together they tell a richer story.” to CU Boulder, for example, he’s worked at As Shield Chief Gover has pursued the Lynch Site, a 13th-14th century town in his graduate training, he’s also tried to eastern Nebraska that was once home to spend more time in Oklahoma visiting his the ancestors of today’s Pawnee. relatives. He sits on the board of directors “I get to walk on the same surfaces that for the Museum of the Pawnee Nation my people walked on and pick up their in Pawnee, Oklahoma. And his family, things,” Shield Chief Gover said. motivated by the life of his grandfather, has been supportive of his choices. On one such visit, Shield Chief Gover’s Born in New Mexico, Shield Chief Gover uncle gave him a piece of advice that the moved to the suburbs of Washington, young researcher has taken to heart. D.C., when he was in second grade. "You come from two worlds,” his uncle “As a young kid, I was always doing told him. “Archaeology has taught you Indian stu£ like going to powwows,” the Chaticks-Taka way, the white man Shield Chief Gover said. “I never saw way. You need to come back home to myself as di£ erent until I moved to Pawnee to learn about the Chaticks-si- Northern Virginia.” Chaticks way, the Pawnee way.”

23 COLORADAN Matt Tyrie SPRING 2021 24 BREATH OF FRESH AIR Jessica Gilman takes to the skies to understand how unprecedented wildfires and the global pandemic are changing the climate and affecting our health.

By Daniel Oberhaus Illustrations by Jeffrey Smith 25 COLORADAN SPRING 2021 26 When Colorado went on lockdown last machine to the future. Chemically March, Jessica Gilman (PhDChem’06) was speaking, taking all the gas guzzlers in her lab analyzing air samples from wild- o£ the road is comparable to replacing fire plumes. Gilman had spent the previous them with electric vehicles. This would summer in a plane, dive bombing into trigger a dramatic drop in greenhouse wildfire smoke to understand its chemistry gas and smog-forming emissions from and how it can a£ect human health. combustion engines, which is a critical Gilman, a research chemist at Boul- element in mitigating climate change der’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric and improving air quality. But at the Administration (NOAA), put the work same time, people’s consumption habits on hold when the organization ordered were changing as they sheltered at home. They were using more hand sanitizer and cleaning products, for example, which YOU HAVE TO TRY TO produce a lot of VOCs. In the atmosphere, vehicular emissions TAKE ADVANTAGE interact with VOCs in complex and often surprising ways, and Gilman wanted to un- OF THESE REALLY derstand how this dramatic shift in human behavior a£ected atmospheric chemistry. “You have this di£erent mix of VOCs,” TERRIBLE SITUATIONS said Gilman, who lives in Boulder. “We don’t know yet how that a£ects ozone FOR FUTURE BENEFIT. or particle formation di£erently than a more traditional mix.” all its scientists to quarantine at home It may be hard to believe that hand indefinitely. But as the shock of the situa- sanitizer and other common products like tion wore o£, Gilman realized the global paints or perfumes could be a significant pandemic had created an unprecedent- variable in climate change and public ed scientific opportunity to study the health, but it’s even harder to argue with atmosphere, climate change and human the data. Car engines were once the health when there were hardly any cars dominant source of VOCs, but according on the road or planes in the air. It was a to Gilman’s research, a number of regula- situation that only a few months earlier tion changes and technological advances would have been entirely unimaginable. over the past few decades has lowered “It was this big national experiment vehicular VOC emissions significantly. that nobody anticipated or wanted,” In 2018, Gilman and her colleagues Gilman said. “You have to try to take ad- discovered that consumer products like vantage of these really terrible situations hairspray and deodorant are producing for future benefit.” nearly half of all VOC emissions that Gilman’s expertise is in volatile organ- create ozone smog in urban areas. ic compounds, or VOCs, a gaseous class “Air pollution is a result of emissions of molecules released by everything from from both human activities and natu- forest fires and car engines to hairspray ral sources,” said Brian McDonald, a and freshly cut grass. research scientist at the Cooperative “Nearly every decision we make in- Institute for Research in Environmental volves VOCs,” Gilman said. “They really Sciences (CIRES). “The reason we need are just surrounding us on a daily basis.” to understand the types of things that Jes- Some VOCs, like benzene and the sica measures is to know what emission particulates produced by wildfires, are sources are getting into the atmosphere.” directly harmful to human health. But all So while most of the U.S. was VOCs, including oil-based and naturally quarantined at home, Gilman and her occurring compounds in deodorants, colleagues at NOAA went to work. She cleaning products and fragrances, react designed an experiment to collect air with sunlight and gases from cars and samples around the clock near the NOAA other combustion engines in the atmo- lab in Boulder and help analyze samples sphere to create ozone and particulate collected from a small plane doing laps matter, the main ingredients in smog. over New York City. Gilman fed the air The pandemic created an environ- samples into custom-built instruments ment that was almost like taking a time in her lab that acted like robotic noses,

27 COLORADAN SPRING 2021 28 sni¶ng out the di£erent chemicals in man. “It’s dark, it’s hot, it’s really bumpy Gilman’s atmospheric cocktails, showing and you’re doing all this crazy maneuver- how atmospheric chemistry was changing. You’re just toast by the end of the day.” ing by the minute. Yet Gilman said it was this kind of The experiment went well for the first fieldwork that attracted her to atmo- few months of the pandemic — until the spheric science in the first place while wildfires started. obtaining her PhD at CU Boulder. After Gilman has spent a lot of time around she completed her doctorate, she became wildfires, but even she has never seen any- a researcher at CIRES in 2006 and joined thing quite like the blazes that consumed NOAA as a federal scientist in 2016. the Western U.S. last summer. In many Since then, she has spent time monitor- states — including Colorado — the 2020 ing air quality from ships in the Arctic wildfire season was the most devastating ocean to remote forest research stations. on record. The wildfires burned a com- “She’s highly motivated to do atmo- bined area larger than Connecticut and left spheric research and willing to do whatever a thick haze hanging over the entire West it takes to get the work done,” said CU Coast for weeks. The smoke in Colorado chemistry professor Veronica Vaida, who quickly overwhelmed Gilman’s local mea- introduced Gilman to atmospheric re- surements for COVID-related changes in search. “She’s a natural for fieldwork.” VOC levels, so she pivoted the experiment For the past 15 years, Gilman’s to study the wildfires until they died down. research on VOCs has been a valuable Gilman knows the grim e£ects wild- contribution to our understanding of the fires have on air quality. In 2019, she spent complex relationships between human her summer dive bombing in and out of activity and climate change. Gilman and wildfire plumes in an old passenger airlin- her team are still parsing the data from er converted into an aerial laboratory. The program was a joint experiment by NASA and NOAA to study the impact of wildfire IT’S NOT A COMFORT- smoke on air quality in order to improve weather and climate forecasts. Scientists ABLE RIDE BETWEEN from around the U.S. flew over 100 fires collecting air samples and studying the THE QUICK AERIAL MA- blazes with sophisticated instruments packed into the body of the plane. Gilman participated in five flights before she re- NEUVERS, TURBULENCE, turned to Boulder to analyze the samples. Each mission started at a National HEAT AND SMOKE. Guard hanger in Idaho, where Gilman and three dozen other scientists spent both the 2020 wildfire and COVID ex- several hours calibrating their instruments periments. But one surprising result they in NASA’s winged climate lab. When the found, she said, was that the pandemic instruments were prepped, the scientists roughly halved the amount of VOCs and flew up to eight hours at a time to the primary pollutants from car engines in largest wildfires burning in the Western Boulder’s atmosphere compared to pre- U.S. Once they were in range of a fire, vious years, but the e£ect on ozone levels the pilots swung the jet low through the in many cities — including Boulder — smoke plumes so Gilman and her team may not have changed or even increased could collect samples. The air was pumped due to complex chemical e£ects. in through specially designed window Their research will be critical for plates outfitted with large, straw-like inlets making informed decisions about connected to bespoke air storage contain- how to keep people safe in our cli- ers inside the plane for storage. mate-changed future. It’s not a comfortable ride between “This shows the impact that humans the quick aerial maneuvers, turbulence, have on the atmosphere and gives us the heat and smoke. Often, it smelled like sense that we can change the trajectory,” someone was burning a campfire right in she said. “I hope what we learned from the fuselage, Gilman said. COVID will help improve the choices “It can be really stressful when you’re that are made in the future to keep the on one of these air campaigns,” said Gil- air quality gains.”

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31 COLORADAN NASA; Information Sources: NSO, NASA, NSF, Maria Kazachenko, Adam Kowalski As a CU undergrad, Jessica Dee Sawyer New Jersey to work at the factory the While the brand has added prod- and when the Necco company (ArtHist’03) studied the bold black lines next year. Liz and Sarah followed soon ucts, like tropical and sour fl avors and a ceased production of its popular of Piet Mondrian and Wassily Kandin- after in 2005. On-the-job training meant popular megaroll, the fl agship product’s Sweethearts candy, Smarties Love sky’s striking use of color. When it came working machines, doing order entry recipe hasn’t changed since 1949, when Hearts filled the space on the Valen- time to redesign the logo and packaging and digging into research to understand the fi rst pellets came out of the presses tine candy shelf. The new presidents for Smarties, the beloved crunchy candy the inner workings of the company. (the original machine was a repurposed updated the sayings stamped on the pellets that have remained unchanged “We did everything. Sarah was driv- World War II gunpowder pellet press). hearts with “YOLO,” “On Fleek” and since the 1950s, Jessica tapped into her ing a forklift. We would dig through the Billions of rolls are produced each year, “Text Me.” background as an art history major. accounting fi les to fi gure things out. We and the factory runs 24 hours a day. In 2019, to celebrate the company’s Jessica, along with her sister, Liz asked a lot of questions,” Jessica said. Still, the new presidents recognized 70th anniversary, Smarties added a Dee, and her cousin, Sarah Dee, is Soon, each of them gravitated to the brand needed a makeover. gummy-like candy called Squashies to co-president of the Smarties Candy the area they were most interested in, “We like retro, but it was feeling a its line. With fl avors like raspberry and Company, with factories in Union, New creating a division of labor. In 2017, they little bit too retro,” Jessica said. cream, Squashies are made in England Jersey, and Newmarket, Ontario. (In became co-presidents, with Jessica in They studied the shape and twist of by the Swizzels company, which is, Canada, the candy is called “Rockets.”) charge of sales, HR, design and logistics; the plastic packaging — “We looked They are the third generation to helm Sarah heading up production and oper- at so many twists!” — and added a tiny the iconic brand. ations; and Liz running food quality and Jessica’s grandfather Edward Dee safety and communications. moved to the United States from England in 1949 and started the company, known

incidentally, run by the son of Jessica’s grandfather’s cousin. wink in the twist and in the “R” in the “My kids love them. I can’t keep Smarties logo. them in the house,” she said. “I got more involved in packaging “It’s like a smile,” she said. “Our dads Sawyer lives in New Jersey with and design and hired an in-house art- ran the company for so many years. We her husband, Donald (Hist’05), who then as Ce De Candy. Edward came from ist,” said Jessica. “Color was the thing I wanted to put our own stamp on it.” she met at CU. They have two kids, a family of candymakers, so Jessica is was most interested in and how it plays Before the new generation took over, the Madeleine, 7 (“like the cookie”), and actually a fi fth-generation candymaker. into packaging for brand recognition.” company’s fi les were paper and stored in Theodore, 4, who act as taste testers Michael Dee, Jessica’s dad, and Jon- Since the company reins were handed fi ling cabinets. The women overhauled the for new products. athan Dee, her uncle, are known to the over to the next generation, the dads system by making fi les digital, creating an “Kids are honest,” Jessica said. current leadership as “the dads.” have stepped aside, though they still accounting system and hiring an IT person. “They say whatever they want.” “I always wanted to work with my dad. serve as consultants on the board. They also added 2,000 solar panels Jessica hopes her children and Sarah’s And the dads always hoped we’d end up “They have o¶ ces,” said Jessica, “but on the roof of the New Jersey factory, twin girls will take over the company running the company,” Jessica said. “The we use them as storage.” next to the giant silo where some 50,000 someday, making Smarties a fourth-gen- dads had an unwritten rule that you had to Before Jessica’s grandfather died last pounds of dextrose is blown in each day. eration family-run business. work outside the company for at least a year.” year at age 95, he would come into the The solar panels o£ set half the factory’s “We feel so lucky to do what we do Jessica spent that year working at the factory every day. energy usage. every day and to work with family,” Denver Art Museum. But she was eager “He’d give us a report from the fl oor,” Since the 1990s, Smarties has also Jessica said. “The best part is knowing to join the family business, returning to she said. “He was our eyes and ears.” had a heart-shaped candy in its line, we bring joy to people.”

33 34 COLORADAN Nick Cabrera SPRING 2021 HOW TO COPE IN A PANDEMIC CU psychology professors share tools to improve mental health amid COVID-19. By Doug McPherson Illustrations by Brian Stauffer

35 COLORADAN SPRING 2021 36 As the world plunged into the “We know that being involved in in the past and why it was successful,” RENÉE CROWN COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, activities that give us a sense of accom- Kaiser said. Sona Dimidjian knew a parallel and plishment, enjoyment and control is Next, brainstorm how you might WELLNESS INSTITUTE more silent crisis was brewing in men- critical to a positive mood,” she said. adjust your coping strategies to the tal health. BA invites people to research the con- pandemic. If exercise helps but your The Renée Crown Well- Dimidjian, a CU Boulder psychology nection between their daily habits and gym is closed, see if you can find a ness Institute at CU professor, immediately saw a trifecta of moods: Which activities are draining? workout online. Boulder opened in 2019 trouble: COVID-19 disrupted our basic Which ones add pleasure, enjoyment or to perform research and daily routines, upended socializing and a sense of mastery? BA participants then YOU MAY FIND THAT delivered a flood of uncertainty. add at least one pleasurable and one mas- offer programs that devel- “People were challenged to navigate tery activity to their schedule every day to YOU DISCOVER NEW op healthy young people each of those issues right from the get-go, make them a normal part of their lives. and the adults who sup- and we know they’ve led to more depres- Dimidjian is seeing BA work — even RESILIENCE-BOOSTING port them. sion, anxiety, substance abuse, domestic without the aid of mental health pro- violence … a whole host of problems,” fessionals — in research at the Crown SKILLS THAT SERVE It recently unveiled the said Dimidjian, also the director of the Institute, where new and expectant YOU NOT ONLY DURING following resources on Renée Crown Wellness Institute, which women su£ering from perinatal depres- its website related to focuses on research and programs to sion help each other apply BA skills. 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Dimidjian said a third tool, mindfulness, A SEPTEMBER 2020 ACKNOWLEDGMENT is a way to stay grounded in the present Wellness Practice Tools: The second coping tool is to acknowl- moment. “Mindfulness helps us become SURVEY FROM THE edge how the pandemic is disrupting aware of our thinking patterns and re- Explore booklet and your life. orients us toward the present,” she said. audio sessions that cover COLORADO HEALTH “It’s normal to grieve for lost experi- “And that frees us from that sense of wellness practices like FOUNDATION FOUND ences, to feel uncertain about the future dread about the future.” compassion, emotions, and to be angry about the state of the To become more mindful, Dimidji- relationships, mindful- world,” said Roselinde Kaiser, assis- an suggests taking a few minutes each 77% OF COLORADANS tant professor in CU’s Department of day to notice your breath, sensations in ness and more. 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37 COLORADAN SPRING 2021 38 CU Creates New Soon after Tia Fuller (MMus’00) myself, ‘Who am I helping? How am vamped the red carpet at the Grammy I tapping into my purpose? Is this in Awards in March 2019, she got a call alignment with my crystallized vision from a casting agent representing the for myself?’” Most of the time, the an- animated Pixar film Soul. swer is “Yes.” “They were looking for a saxophone Like Joe, the main character in Soul player to play the music for a character (played by Jamie Foxx), Fuller’s parents (Dorothea Williams) who is a ‘badass’ were public school teachers. They re- and has her own band in New York that hearsed in the basement and played gigs every musician wants to be a part of — on weekends, while both becoming assis- which was ironic,” said Fuller, because tant principals with Denver Public Schools. her own quartet got its start in New “I’m from a spiritual and praying York, and she, too, has a strong presence family,” she said. “There’s a saying that’s in the jazz community. been etched into my psyche since I Without missing a beat, Fuller jumped was 3. It’s on a poster that’s still on my at the chance. bedroom door: ‘If you can imagine it, you For her ensemble role in Soul, Fuller can achieve it. If you can dream it, you flew to Los Angeles. “We received the can become it.’ When I asked my mother music, rehearsed for a moment and then later, she said that she was positively recorded it on the brainwashing us!” spot,” she said. “I After high school thought, ‘Oh man, in Aurora, Fuller this is major! This earned her BA in is where all the music magna cum work and the sac- laude at Spelman rifice, hustle — all College and her of the tools we’ve master’s in jazz developed over pedagogy and per- the years — come formance summa together. It is a cum laude at CU blessing that I have Boulder. At CU, this opportunity.’” she began direct- While the Soul From Beyonce to Pixar, Tia ing jazz ensembles story was powerful Fuller shines her light on jazz. and hosting master for Fuller, she also BY BARBARA BROOKS classes and clinics celebrates Pixar’s as a teaching assis- commitment to cultural authenticity. tant. She learned to teach theoretically, “The story is deep,” she said. “It visually and analytically. challenges us to look at our purpose “In honoring that each student learns and our spark. It really tapped into the di£erently, it is always my goal to present essence of my life, and many of our lives material at least three di£erent ways,” as artists — especially now.” she said. Fuller has known since she was 23 About the relationship between per- years old that her purpose is to “be light forming and teaching, Fuller said, “I think for others.” one complements the other. In perfor- As a rising-star performer and edu- mance, we are in a state of transcendence cator, she illuminates the jazz world. of communication, spirit and creativity. Back in 2006, she cut a very long Teaching is a mirror; it allows for us to audition line to earn a coveted spot truly reflect on our process, and then in Beyonce’s all-female touring band. articulate it to others.” With her fifth LP, Diamond Cut, she be- Fuller tells her students, “Music teach- came the second-ever female artist to es life skills. It’s an aural art form that be nominated for Best Jazz Instrumen- activates seamless communication and tal Album. Today, she holds a full-time interaction. When we go beyond playing After two years of research, a pair of CU professorship at the esteemed Berklee the notes and melodies and tap into the faculty members have created a set of best College of Music, while continuing to self, we become vulnerable and transpar- practices — the Colorado Theater Standards — record and tour. ent. We are able to inspire and empower to foster safe places for performance artists. But to live her truth, Fuller can’t each other in a metaphysical way.” improvise. “With every decision, I ask Now, that’s Soul! 39 40 COLORADAN Courtesy Tia Fuller SPRING 2021 A Win-Win for You and CU

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Travel entrepreneur Funmi Oyatogun (EnvSt, Geog’12) ForeverGold, lives in Lagos, Nigeria. When COVID-19 put her African travel business, TVP Adventures, on hold in early 2020, she created “Fill in the Black” to keep people connected Forever CU Boulder in a casual and insightful way. The card game focuses on Alumni Association group aims to support CU Boulder’s future. Black histories, places, inventions and stories. Words in Apulia: the game celebrate Black culture and foster learning. Undiscovered Italy “The game is relevant for everyone, no matter your Oct. 20–28, 2021 hen Christine Hylbert and her late husband Peter Dietze (A&S’59; race or background, who Law’62) joined ForeverGold, they were in search of the sense of cam- wants to celebrate Blackness,” W pus belonging they once had. Oyatogun said. “We wanted to have fun and pretend we were still students,” said To play the game, a group Hylbert. “We had many friends who had close ties to CU and wanted tries to guess a word a teammate to continue to support and be a is describing while that person part of the university.” avoids saying the other forbid- Chilean Wonders: For the alumni, parents and CU den words listed on their card. Lake District and friends who have joined Forever- Buy the game at ﬁllinthe Patagonia Gold, it has delivered an integral black.myshopify.com. Oct. 27–Nov. 7, 2021 and intimate connection with the Read a Q&A with Oyatogun campus through exclusive academ- at colorado.edu/coloradan. ic, athletic and social activities like symposiums, retreats, tailgates, JOIN THE FOREVER the annual Homecoming behind-the-scenes campus tours BUFFS NETWORK weekend ceremony. and more. The Forever Bu£s Learn more and submit “You learn everything that you Network, a free online nominations by May 17, never knew about CU,” said For- community exclusively 2021, by visiting colorado. Cruising Tahiti and French Polynesia everGold member Lynne Barnett for CU Boulder a¶liates, edu/homecoming/ Nov. 2–12, 2021 (Edu’69). helps alumni grow a range alumniawards. ForeverGold is a campus move- of professional connec- ment composed of two former tions and reconnect with ALUMNI CAREER CU Boulder Alumni Association former classmates. The SERVICES groups: over 1,000 Directors Club platform o£ers job post- Starting in April, you members and over 2,000 Life- ings and campus news can create a more time Members. along with networking, fulﬁlling career plan for “Everyone is just fabulous,” volunteer and mentorship yourself. The Colorado Antiquities of said Barnett. “Every time you get opportunities. There’s also Career Design Fellow- the Red Sea and together with alums on a committee a business directory with ship — open to all CU Aegean Sea Oct.29–Nov.11, 2021 or at a party, they all have the same Bu£-owned businesses Boulder alumni — runs interest of supporting CU. It’s just a in a given area. Join at April 17-May 16 and pro- common spirit.” foreverbu£snetwork.com. vides guidance aimed Both social and philanthropic, at helping you clarify ForeverGold works to support the ALUMNI AWARDS your next career move. future of the university on both the NOMINATIONS OPEN There is a $50 discount individual student level — 12 schol- Are you making a if you register by March arships are awarded a year — and a positive impact in your 27, and the deadline to Holiday Market grander scale. So far, ForeverGold community? Do you know enroll is April 12. More Cruise ForeverGold members have given more than $220 million to scholarships, capital an outstanding Bu£? information is available Dec. 11–19, 2021 members and their improvements and programs to impact CU Boulder. Let CU know! Nominate at bit.ly/CCDF21. In the coming year, ForeverGold is focused on outreach to new yourself or fellow alumni Also, alumni receive For more information families en- about the Roaming Buffs members, expanding events and programs, and increasing scholarship for one of six Alumni two free career counseling joy togeth- travel program, email erness and endowments to o£er additional student scholarships. Awards. As the second- appointments a year. Make roamingbuffstravel@ Buff Pride at “ForeverGold is not just an organization, but a movement with longest standing tradition an appointment with one colorado.edu, call the 2019 tail- the goal of continuing to move CU forward,” said ForeverGold at CU Boulder, Alumni of CU’s alumni career 303-492-8484 or visit gate event. President Colin Finch (PolSci’05). “We are always looking for Awards recognize CU’s advisors at colorado.edu/ www.colorado.edu/ individuals to join, so please get involved!” Find out more at best and brightest during career/alumni. alumni/travel. colorado.edu/alumni/forevergold.

43 COLORADAN Matt Tyrie Courtesy Funmi Oyatogun SPRING 2021 44 CU AROUND Music Expansion

The Imig of Innovation The newly U Boulder’s College of Music celebrated its 100th birthday in style Innovation was at the forefront of this project, with spaces remodeled last year with a stunning 64,000-square-foot, $57-million expan- speciﬁcally devoted to exciting new arms of the department: En- Imig Music C sion funded by numerous private donors and a university matching trepreneurship, wellness, music technology and interdisciplinary Building capital grant. collaboration. stands as The Imig Music Building expansion was a long time coming. Showing off CU Boulder’s trademark sandstone brick, lime- an example Students struggled to ﬁnd enough practice rooms, and rehearsal and stone trim and red clay roof tile, the new building offers beautiful of CU’s concert spaces were too tight. gathering places for students, faculty and music lovers complete commitment The expansion includes brand-new rehearsal and recital facil- with sweeping views of the iconic Flatirons. Construction broke to excellence ities, an upgraded chamber hall, a rehearsal-performance space ground in early 2019 and wrapped just in time for students to in the arts. with retractable seating, a state-of-the-art recording studio and a cross the new sandstone entrance on 18th Street to start the Fall dance studio. 2020 semester.

45 COLORADAN Glenn Asakawa SPRING 2021 46 CHANCELLOR’S ESSAY Climate Change Alumni Gear available at the CU Book Store Shop cubookstore.com or visit the store in the UMC

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As the Coloradan pivots top research universities in the world for to examine the ways in geoscience and climate science. which the university is We have deep partnerships with a host addressing pressing is- of federal labs right in our backyard ad- sues of our time, we need dressing this crisis, including the National alumni, now as much as Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra- Philip P. DiStefano ever, to understand and tion, the National Renewable Energy engage in the powerful re- Laboratory and the National Center for search and education happening every day Atmospheric Research. We are in a unique at CU Boulder. The fall issue of the maga- position to address this generational emer- zine examined racism and anti-racism on gency and it is incumbent on us to do so. and around campus through the personal We are leading by example — building stories of students and your fellow alumni. one of the most sustainable campuses in This issue, we’re tackling climate change. the country — perhaps the world — and Why climate change? It’s simple: One we are also working on the human side of of the core missions of our university the problem, impacting behavior through is to positively impact humanity, and work at the new Center for Creative humanity faces the existential crisis of a Climate Communication and Behavior warming planet caused by human beings. Change. In short, we are a global leader in It is essential that we do everything in climate change research and education. our power across the university with the The way forward to a more sustainable resources available to us to be part of future runs right through CU Boulder. the solution. Anything less would be a The current Coloradan highlights some disservice to our history, our future and of the most fascinating people at CU to all those who call themselves Bu£ s. and the problems they’re addressing. It’s It’s important to reﬂ ect on this even — also an unambiguous statement of CU’s especially — when the world seems to be commitment to reverse the damage being distracted by the news of the day. done to our planet. No matter the politi- At CU, internationally recognized cal or policy headwinds, CU will continue climate scientists are utilizing the most to do what it has always done and tackle compelling resources available to create the most di¶ cult challenges of the day. solutions to complex interlocking and PHILIP P. DISTEFANO IS THE 11TH CHANCEL- overlapping problems. We are one of the LOR OF CU BOULDER.

47 COLORADAN Glenn Asakawa SPRING 2021 48 SPORTSnews Bu aloes Return Bu alo Bits STATS By Andrew Daigle (PhDEngl’16) to the Alamo Bowl CU Athletics signed a fi ve- Colorado football (4-2) year corporate sponsorship earned a trip to the agreement with gaming Valero Alamo Bowl for operator PointsBet in Sep- First College victory for alpine the second time in fi ve tember. The partnership skier Filip Forejtek years. The Bu£ aloes rode is one of few in existence (CompSci’22) Jan. 13 at a strong ground game between a sports betting the Spencer James Nelson to a 4-0 record and No. operator and a Division-1 Memorial Invitational 21 AP National Ranking. Athletics Program. However, CU dropped McKinley Wright IV its fi nal two games: 38-21 (Ethn’21) became men’s to Utah and 55-23 to basketball’s all-time Texas in the Alamo Bowl. assists leader when he 3.153 Fall 2020 GPA of stu- After missing his fi rst two delivered his 563rd assist dent-athletes, the highest seasons to injury, tailback in the Bu£ aloes’ win over semester GPA on record Jarek Broussard (Ethn’23) Cal State on Jan. 14. garnered Pac-12 O£ ensive Frida Formann (Env- Player of the Year and St’24) was named U.S. Mayo Clinic Comeback Basketball Writers Associa- Player of the Year honors. tion and Pac-12 Freshman The Double His 301-yard rushing e£ ort of the Week after leading Dec. 5 at Arizona was the women’s basketball to J.J. Tompkins is CU soccer’s all-time leader in wins. Now fourth 300-yard game in victories over Cal State and James Stefanou’s the goalkeeper plays professionally in Norway. CU history. Linebacker Stanford in mid-January. 33(Jour’21) age when he Nate Landman (Mgmt, Soccer’s Stephanie Zu- retired Nov. 9 as college oalkeeper J.J. Tompkins (Psych’19) is CU soccer’s all-time leader in Mktg’21) made All Pac-12 niga (Comm’19) signed her football’s oldest player wins with 49 total. Her standout performance, however, came in defeat First Team Defense, de- fi rst pro contract, joining G Nov. 22, 2019, as she made several highlight-reel saves when North spite rupturing his Achilles Cruzeiro Sports Club in Carolina eliminated the Bu£ s 1-0 in the NCAA Tournament. tendon against Utah. Head Brazil for the 2021 season. The Phoenix native wasn’t done. She began exploring profession- coach Karl Dorrell was Nordic skier Magnus 36th al opportunities for after her December graduation. She considered named Pac-12 Coach of Boee (IntlAf’23) won Tyler Bey (Ethn ex’21) leagues in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Israel. the Year and the Football three of his fi rst four selected overall Tompkins earned a tryout with Vålerenga Fotball Damer, a top-tier Writers Association of spring races. After gold (by 76ers before trade team in Norway. She bought a one-way ticket, passed the trial and America’s “First Year” medaling once and win- to Mavs) in November’s signed in February 2020. Coach of the Year. He was ning Skier of the Meet for NBA draft In her first year playing After moving into East Oslo, she joined club practices. She trained with hired on Feb. 23, but was the RMISA Invitational in Norway, the starting goalie, Hannah Seabert, the only other American on the 20-play- unable to hold his fi rst at Utah, Boee earned two former Buffs er roster. In March, though, the pandemic forced Vålerenga into lockdown. practice until Oct. 9 due more victories Jan. 22-23 soccer Three weeks into her pro career, Tompkins was receiving unemployment. to the pandemic. Dorrell at the Denver Invitational. 77-72 Women’s basketball’s goalie J.J. She walked the city, kept in touch with family and connected with described his abbreviated CU Boulder’s Center for overtime win over Tompkins similarly isolated teammates. fi rst season: “We have our Leadership honored golfer the then-No. 1 Stanford helped “I was a bit shy, so it gave me time to meet them. We really bonded ground fl oor established (StComm’22) Alisha Lau Cardinals on January 17 bring her during quarantine,” Tompkins said. now, and we can work our as a 2020-21 Student Lead- team two After six weeks, Vålerenga began practices and the team resumed way forward.” er of the Year. major championships. games July 5. Tompkins got her fi rst start Aug. 16. She dedicated it to Bu£ s associ- Coach Talk 3,846 ate head coach Jason Green’s late mother Donna. Points scored by pen- “She was always a number-one fan. Such a special woman,” Tompkins “CERTAINLY, WE CELE- tathlon winner Avery Mc- said. With “Mama Green” written on her hand, she earned a shutout. BRATED. BUT THE BIGGEST Mullen (IntPhys’23) in the Tompkins stayed in goal. She collected several more shutouts. On women’s track’s opener at Dec. 6, Vålerenga won the league championship. Meanwhile, the club THING NOW IS TO FIGURE the Air Force Invitational also began play in the Norwegian Cup — a prestigious nationwide club tournament — and won its Champions League qualifi ers. OUT WHAT WE DID SO A week later, Vålerenga won the Norwegian Cup with another shut- WELL SO WE CAN CONTIN- $73,000,000 out by Tompkins. Derrick White’s Said CU coach Green: “One trophy was huge, but to bring a double UE TO DO THOSE THINGS.” (Mgmt’17) four-year con- in her fi rst season — it’s why she is now regarded as the best goalkeeper — Women’s basketball head coach JR Payne after the Buffs tract extension with the upset #1 Stanford on Jan. 17. playing in Norway.” NBA’s San Antonio Spurs

49 COLORADAN Vegard Wivestad Grott/Bildbyran SPRING 2021 50 SPORTS Q&A Jaylyn Sherrod

You’re known to say, get lost in having more mythology and Shake- Will Over Skill “It’s will over skill.” skill instead of that speare. I have a tattoo What motivates you? fight, that toughness from Shakespeare on Sophomore Jaylyn Sherrod (Soc’23) is CU women’s basketball’s first–ever My will is what got me and that grit. me. When I have free player from Alabama. Named CU’s Most Improved player and selected for the here, the intangibles. I time, I’m normally read- Pac-12 All-Freshman Team, the 5'7" Birmingham native reflects on leading as don’t need to score 30 What’s one thing ing a book. It’s crazy a point guard, choosing the Buffs and communicating on and off the court. points. I don't need to Buffs fans would be because I really do not have a great three-point surprised to learn like school. INTERVIEW BY percentage. Honestly, about you? I am ANDREW DAIGLE. CON- You became the Did you ever play the team and have her so many people now a nerd. I like Greek DENSED AND EDITED. Buffs’ starting basketball with Ja- own children. It’s the point guard after meis? We did play. It mental toughness of six games last year. was me and a couple of all the coaches really, What was it like my old teammates and because they have directing the offense a couple of guys who their own lives and as a first-year play- we worked out with. families, too. er? It was tough having There’s video out there. to learn so much. But If you lost, you had to Why did you change at the same time, it run. We won, so that your number from was an experience that was good. 1 to 00 over the I needed, and it helped offseason? In high me grow as a player What’s something school, I did the same and as a person more you make sure to thing. I really grew than anything. do when you’re in as a leader and as a Birmingham? I eat at communicator on my What were the places that I don’t get high school team. And biggest takeaways the chance to eat at I saw myself doing that from your first year? up here. A place called as a sophomore here. Learning how to lead, Granny’s, a food truck. I thought: why not re- be more vocal and They do shrimp and mind myself what I went communicate with my grits, and it’s really, through and how I came teammates and coach- really good. There’s a up out of it? es to get us all on line down the street. the same page. We all Junior Lesila Finau have different personal- You’re the first play- (Psych’22) began last ities. It was figuring er in program history season as the start- out how to get the best from Alabama. Why ing point guard. This out of each person on did you choose CU? season, you’re both the team. Because they were starters in the same really invested. They backcourt. How does How did offseason showed the most inter- that work? It has made training go for you? est in getting to know it a lot easier for our When I got home, I me and not just me, but offense because it puts worked out with my also my family and the in another ball handler. trainer. I met him when people around me. I'm You have basically two I was in ninth grade. not a fan of the snow, point guards out on the I went to Florida with but I love the people. I floor. Sila brings a lot to him a couple of times love the atmosphere. I this team. and worked with love the energy. [Saints quarterback] How do you stay in Jameis Winston. With Can you share some- control? That’s what I the [CU] team, it was thing you’ve learned bring to the table. My Zoom. We did a lot from Coach JR job is to bring ener- of calls, a lot of film Payne? I told Coach, gy and just do what sessions, trying to find ‘I don’t know how you I do because I'm not ways to learn, even do it.’ It seems so 6'4." I’ve gotten a lot though we couldn’t be stressful to be a sec- better at how to change training in person. ond mom to 16 girls on speeds at times.

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53 COLORADAN SPRING 2021 54 CLASSnotes Western Nevada College happy to report that his in 1996, Anthony Calabro long-standing research WE WANT (SocSci) served as a and writing project regents professor in the Beethoven in Russia: YOUR NEWS! College of Education Music and Politics will at the University of be published by Indi- Write the editors at Nevada, Reno. He was ana University Press. Koenig Alumni Center, granted emeritus status Frederick writes that Boulder, CO 80309, or in 2005. his study covers “the [email protected] While studying abroad reception of Beetho- at the University of Fri- ven’s music in Russia bourg, Switzerland, and since 1801, with a focus the University of Oslo, on the revolutionary Norway, in 1959–60, Ro- movement and ancillary mayne Troost Kazmer cultural and political (DistSt) wrote letters developments.” to her family about her travels. Now, she has To docu- compiled those letters into ’65 ment the a memoir titled Letters lives and stories of now on display at the That Moved My Father. African Americans Smithsonian’s National throughout Colorado Museum of American After graduat- history, Clementine Art exhibit and Museum ’64 ing from CU Pigford Washington of Musical Instruments and getting her mas- (CommDisor) has been in Phoenix, Arizona. ter’s degree from The working on a self-pub- Ohio State University, lishing project that she After getting Charlotte Roe (A&S) hopes to finish in 2021. ’69 his master’s in went on to become English from UC Davis, a leading activist in A resident Tom Chase (Engl) labor organizing and ’67 of Boulder spent 40 years teaching union support. Today, County since 1965, at a community college Charlotte is a nation- Bonnie Carol (Psych) in Corvallis, Oregon — al field rep for the has been a valued though music has been American Federation of member of Colorado’s his most treasured Labor and Congress of musical community for hobby. Tom writes Industrial Organizations decades. She is one that his love for music and a diplomat with the of only a half-dozen helped him adjust to State Department, serv- female dulcimer build- the COVID-19 pandemic ing on four continents. ers in the U.S., having as he played with his Professor emeritus of won or placed in most band over Zoom and history at the University dulcimer contests since made recordings while of Montana, Freder- she started in 1971. in quarantine. He and The frosty Flatirons make for a glorious view outside of the CU Events Center. ick Skinner (Hist) is Bonnie’s dulcimers are his bandmates even made an album titled Pandemic Blues. When Walter CU English nearly 50 articles. Paul TOM CHASE’S LOVE FOR it is safe to travel, Tom ’56 Kurtzman ’57 professor was also responsible for and his wife plan to take (PolSci) published emeritus Paul Levitt the restoration of the rep- MUSIC HELPED HIM AD- a trip to Colorado so he his first novel, titled (Phil; MHist’61) and late utation of Morris Judd, can show her campus Diamonds in the Rough, alum S. Sue McMillan a former CU philosophy JUST TO THE COVID-19 and the Rockies. in 2019. It is available (A&S’51) co-authored the instructor who was fired PANDEMIC AS HE PLAYED With greetings to from Amazon and other book Yana: A Historical in the early 1950s for his classmates and friends, major bookstores. Novel, which was refusal to answer FBI WITH HIS BAND OVER ZOOM Robert Hoge (Anth) released in 2020. While questions about commu- writes that he now READ THE OTHER working at CU, Paul nist affiliations. AND MADE RECORDINGS spends his time be- DECADES OF CLASS wrote plays for the BBC, tween his wife’s home NOTES ONLINE AT authored more than 20 After retiring WHILE IN QUARANTINE. outside Barcelona and COLORADO.EDU/COLORADAN books and published ’61 as president of his home in the Bronx.

55 COLORADAN “ex” indicates a nondegree and the year of expected graduation. Glenn Asakawa SPRING 2021 56 Both are now retired: slated for publication Workers: Tales from a she, as a university pro- in 2021. Working Man’s Shrink, fessor emerita and he, intertwines Bob’s own as a museum curator When he experiences with real emeritus. ’73 marched with stories of cops, fire- Jerold Zimmerman the Golden Buffalo fighters, bank tellers (Acct) is a professor Marching Band in 1970, and more. emeritus at the Univer- Bob Larsen (MCDBio) John Poimiroo sity of Rochester Simon played the French horn. (MJour) was named Business School, where Now, he is excited to Writer of the Year by he has taught since be starting his term the Outdoor Writers As- 1974. His new book, as a board member sociation of California. Relentless: The Fo- of the Silver Buffs He was recognized for rensics of Mobsters’ Marching Band Alumni. his many achievements, Business Practices, is Bob’s book, Wounded including four first-place

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awards: Best Outdoor Don Dethlefs (EnvDes; research scientist and Feature Photograph, MArch’79) and Joseph managing associate for Best Outdoor Photo- Dyer (MArch’08), U.S. and international graphic Series, Best recently landed on research and training Outdoor Video and Best the Sports Business projects. She also Outdoor Internet Site. Journal’s “Power served as interim Players List.” director at the National Perkins&Will After completing her Evaluation Data and ’77 Denver is an master’s degree at CU, Technical Assistance architectural design Melody Moore (Soc; Center and as an ad- firm that specializes in MPubAdmin’87) studied junct faculty member at sports, recreation and protocol at the White Georgetown University. entertainment facility House during the Carter She retired in 2017 from design. The firm, which administration, then the University of North Chip follows physical distancing guidelines on campus. employs the talent of began her career as a Carolina, Chapel Hill.

57 COLORADAN “ex” indicates a nondegree and the year of expected graduation. Glenn Asakawa SPRING 2021 58 CLASSnotes (Advert) submitted many also the co-founder and patent disclosures for co-chair of Arizona Kids WE WANT the IBM Call for Code Build, an award-winning Embrace initiative, which student mentoring pro- YOUR NEWS! seeks to support racial gram aimed at teaching justice by calling on elementary school Write the editors at Congress for change. students how the built Koenig Alumni Center, Jennifer writes that it was environment affects both Boulder, CO 80309, or very rewarding to con- their well-being and the [email protected] nect with others and use world around us. technology to make the In the Bay Area, world a better place. Jean Walsh (Hist) was In February 2020, elected director of Boulder native Alexan- Alameda-Contra Costa der Munn (Hist) was Transit, the bus operator hired as chief legal officer of the East Bay in Cali- of BBPOS, a worldwide fornia. Jean writes that manufacturer of point- she ran against a 20- of-sale terminals and year incumbent and won software for global with 76% of the vote. In panies, hedge funds and banks, merchants and her new role, she will be private equity firms. distributors. Prior to this representing more than With over 20 years of new position at BBPOS, 285,000 residents. experience representing Alexander was senior Katie Writer (Geog) clients, Cynthia Hegarty litigation counsel at BPE has been pursuing (PolSci) has been hired Law Group, PC, based in her journalism career as legal counsel for Sacramento, California. documenting climate Winthrop and Weinstine. change in Alaska. Her She is also the chair of Linda Pelaez recent art and pho- the Minnesota State Bar ’90 Hattenbach tography show River Association’s Bankruptcy (Psych) of Lakewood, Shadows and Bush- Law section. Colorado, is beginning wheels was on display Faegre Drinker partner a new venture design- at The Hanger in Talk- Heather Carson Per- ing collegiate jewelry eetna, Alaska, through kins (Acct; Law’98) has — starting with her alma February 2021. been elected to the gov- mater. She invites you to erning committee of the visit revelrydesigns.com Combining American Bar Association for her CU- and Rocky ’92 hospitality Forum of Franchising. Mountain-inspired jewelry. expertise and design She also co-presented at savvy, Amy Shapiro the 42nd Annual Forum Kim Dvorchak Morris (Econ) founded on Franchising and ’91 (WomSt) is her own design firm in served a three-year term The frosty Flatirons make for a glorious view outside of the CU Events Center. executive director of the 2019. The Morris Project, as editor-in-chief of the National Association of based in Brooklyn, New forum publication The Counsel for Children, a York, helps hospitality Franchise Lawyer and Cynthia Hafner Stinson (Engl) released in September 2020. Denver-based nonprofit professionals think ho- associate editor of The ’82 Clark (Econ; the 25th anniversary edi- Daniel is a UCLA pro- dedicated to legal advo- listically about strategy Franchise Law Journal. Law’85) recently pub- tion of her novel Martha fessor in ecology and cacy for children across and design. Frances Tourtelot lished her second novel, Moody. The book was first evolutionary biology and the country. (Advert) and Allison Dirt Road Main Street, a published by Spinsters Ink a member of the Institute Last August, Michelle In 2020, Langeler Hastey suspenseful romance. and is now being sold by of the Environment and Ray (Arch) was named ’93 Kenneth (Ken) (Soc’04) recently Small Beer Press. Sustainability. He spends workplace studio leader Frenchman (Mktg) celebrated six years of In December his summers in Gothic, for SmithGroup’s Phoe- joined several colleagues owning Merritt+Grace, a ’83 2020, Susan The Nature of Colorado, studying yel- nix, Arizona, office. Her to launch their own Denver-based marketing ’86 Fear: Survival low-bellied marmots. work will include building law firm, Cohen Ziffer agency. They write that READ THE OTHER Lessons from the Wild, design teams to solve Frenchman & McKenna. they use their combined DECADES OF CLASS Daniel Blumstein’s While work- the complex challenges The firm plans to contin- 35+ years of marketing NOTES ONLINE AT (EPOBio) most re- ’89 ing at IBM, presented by mixed-use ue representing a client expertise, which started COLORADO.EDU/COLORADAN cent book, came out Jennifer Hatfield projects. Michelle is base of Fortune 500 com- while they were stu-

55 COLORADAN “ex” indicates a nondegree and the year of expected graduation. Glenn Asakawa SPRING 2O21 56 was a forward on the varsity basketball team. CURRENTLY THE Almost 27 years later, as LONGEST-TENURED the president of Cali- fornia-based company COLLEGE PRESIDENT Zonez, he has helped in IN THE STATE OF WIS- the company’s creation of Clean Zonez Panels, CONSIN (24 YEARS), which filter air at individual workstations, rooms and PATRICK T. FERRY other spaces. (PHDHIST) WILL RETIRE This January, Billy Humphrey (Engl) was AS PRESIDENT OF CON- featured on the Travel Channel’s Expedition CORDIA UNIVERSITY Bigfoot for an encounter WISCONSIN AND ANN he allegedly had with the creature on his West ARBOR IN JUNE 2021. Virginia property near the New River Gorge Bridge. Billy was a nonbeliever dents at CU, to serve Midstream, was named a before the sighting, when a variety of clients, finalist for the Entrepreneur he says he and his wife including the Colorado of the Year 2020 Mountain saw Bigfoot at about a Department of Public Desert Region Award, 30-foot distance. He was Health & Environment, which honors entrepreneur- also featured on Animal former office of Gover- ial business leaders whose Planet’s Finding Bigfoot nor John Hickenlooper ambitions deliver innova- on Valentine’s Day. Students bundled up and donned their masks this winter for snowy days on campus. and Cirque du Soleil. tion, growth and prosperity While living in Hawaii, while creating companies Lisa Lucas (EnvCon) Adam Bedard that transform our world. published her book, Seed writes that she misses State University Hollis Police Accountability ’95 (CivEngr), As a junior at CU, to Sea: Kumulipo Con- Colorado, her old home. Robbins (MEngl) has Project, where she was co-founder of ARB Sande Golgart (Mktg) nections Volume 1. She published her sixth book, the first female and the Currently the Forms of Contention: first person of color to be ’96 longest-ten- Influence and the African named president. ured college president in American Sonnet the state of Wisconsin, Tradition. Hollis credits Caryn Patrick T. Ferry Professor Kelly Hurley, ’99 Hartman (PhDHist) will retire as Professor Nan Goodman (Anth, RelSt) of Denver president of Concordia and Professor Katherine won the 2019 Nautilus University Wisconsin and Eggert for helping her to Award for Best Children’s Ann Arbor in June 2021. hone the craft of studying Illustrated Fiction Book When he retires, Patrick literature while she was a for Dorje the Yak, a will have served 24 student at CU. dual-language story in years as president of the After leaving her job English and Tibetan. Mequon-based school, at Samsung in Seoul, Hunter Sykes (Geog, with seven of those also Julia Yoo (Law) earned Hist) produced and di- at the helm of the Ann her law degree at CU and rected an award-winning Arbor campus. founded the Law Center conservation documen- Dawn Davis Loring for Women Prisoners, tary, The Hunter Legacy. (MDance) has co-written a nonprofit focused on The film examines 80 a textbook titled Dance assisting and advocating years of conservation Appreciation that was for incarcerated women. and change in Kenya published by Human Three years later, she through the eyes of the Kinetics in January 2021. joined the law firm Ire- descendants of big game dale & Yoo in San Diego. hunters. The production Dean of the She continues her work was filmed in part by ’98 School of Arts fighting police miscon- fellow Buffs alum Darren Chip plays a game of physically distanced Spikeball with CU students. & Humanities at Sonoma duct at the National Campbell (EnvCon’94).

57 COLORADAN “ex” indicates a nondegree and the year of expected graduation. Glenn Asakawa SPRING 2O21 58 CLASSnotes the proud mom to CU Japan and stayed with it student Henry Ediger for seven years, meeting WE WANT (Econ, PolSci’22). her husband. Most Payal Salsburg recently, she moved to YOUR NEWS! (MCompSci) was named Mexico, launched her among the Top Women own business and wrote Write the editors at of Law in Massachu- Launch a Powerful Koenig Alumni Center, setts Lawyers Weekly Job Search in 7 Days, Boulder, CO 80309, or last November. This released in 2020. [email protected] recognition celebrates Dave Simeone (Engl) the achievements of was recently hired as a “exceptional women digital project manager at lawyers as pioneers, Loptr LLC, western New educators, trailblazers York’s leading cyberse- and role models.” curity firm.

To say that Travis Macy ’04 Kyla Duffy ’05 (Hum) grew up (Mktg, Span) has been watching his dad com- keeping busy since pete in Ironman races hosted by Bear Grylls on graduation would be an and ultra-marathons, Amazon Prime. understatement. After eventually following in a two-year stint as the his father’s adventurous Lucy Ohanian national sales manager footsteps. To date, he ’07 (Law) and Effie at Eldorado Climbing has completed over 120 Seibold (MJour’03; Law) Walls in Boulder, Kyla ultra-endurance events were both recipients started a publishing in 17 countries. In 2019, of Colorado Law’s Dan company, earned a mas- Travis and his father Barash Scholarship, ter’s degree and began teamed up with several which is awarded to teaching sales manage- others to compete in students who hope to be ment at CU. In 2012, World’s Toughest Race: public defenders. Now, Duffy joined a circus in Eco-Challenge Fiji, Lucy is chief deputy

Students bundled up and donned their masks this winter for snowy days on campus.

Berklee pro- at Earlham College. Rio Paralympics. Melis- ’00 fessor and CU His book All Politics sa’s memoir, The Power alum Tia Fuller (MMus) Are God’s Politics: of Choice: My Journey is the saxophonist behind Moroccan Islamism from Wounded Warrior the music of Dorothea and the Sacralization of to World Champion, was Willams, a character in Democracy was pub- published in 2020. Pixar’s new film Soul. lished in January. In 2004, Melissa The past year Writer and Stockwell (Comm) ’03 brought a major ’02 assistant pro- became the first woman move, new job and new fessor of politics Ahmed to lose a limb in the Iraq marriage for Maureen Khanani (IntlAf) serves War when she lost her leg (Johnson) Rikhof as co-director of the to an IED during a routine (PolSci; MPubAd’05). She Center for Social Justice patrol in Iraq. After a long was named the director and challenging recovery, of international relations READ THE OTHER Melissa went on to win at Otero Junior College DECADES OF CLASS three paratriathlon world in La Junta, Colorado, NOTES ONLINE AT championships and a and was married in COLORADO.EDU/COLORADAN bronze medal at the 2016 November. Maureen is Chip plays a game of physically distanced Spikeball with CU students.

55 COLORADAN “ex” indicates a nondegree and the year of expected graduation. Glenn Asakawa SPRING 2021 56 her masks and covers While studying en- 25&Y Publishing, The active member of to communities in need, gineering at CU, Tyler Secret of the Green the Silicon Flatirons MADDIE HAS DONATED with the mission of bring- Huggins (MEngr’13; Anole, embodies a cross student group. Now, as MANY OF HER MASKS ing band programs back PhDCivEngr) and Justin between the writing of an associate attorney to schools. “If there’s Whiteley (MMechEn- Stephen King and Jordan at the global law firm AND COVERS TO COM- anything I can do to bring gr’14; PhD) bonded Peele. Jake’s goal as a DLA Piper, she advises joy back to musicians, over their mutual love writer is to “offer readers a telecommunications MUNITIES IN NEED, WITH I’m on it,” she said. for science and passion phenomenal story that al- industry members on for creating change. In lows them to escape their compliance issues. She THE MISSION OF BRING- In May 2020, 2014, the duo founded daily lives and explore the also does pro bono work ’11 Christine Meati Foods, an alter- possibilities of what lies representing clients in ING BAND PROGRAMS Thai (Fin, IntPhys; native meat company just beyond our vision.” immigration cases. BACK TO SCHOOLS. MBA’17) co-founded that makes steak- and and became the CEO of chicken-like products While studying Rhodes Scholar Therapeasy, a mental from fungi. The company ’17 at Colorado ’19 Serene Singh health organization raised $28 million in its Law, Ariel Diamond (Jour, PolSci) was of the Colorado State Rajesh Bagchi helping people find Series A funding round. (Law) served as ed- crowned the 2020–21 Public Defender’s Office, ’08 (DBA) was therapists. To date, the Alabama native Jake itor-in-chief of the National All-American where she recruits named the R.B. Pamplin platform has on-board- Shuford (Psych) writes Colorado Technology Miss, winning the and hires our state’s Professor of Marketing ed over 140 Colorado that his new novel from Law Journal and an world’s largest pageant. public defenders. Effie by the Virginia Tech mental health providers is the training director Board of Visitors in July and facilitated over 830 for the Colorado State 2020. The American client matches. Public Defender’s Office Marketing Association and has worked with ranks Rajesh among the In December, three-quarters of the top 20 marketing schol- ’13 Kaitlin lawyers who have also ars worldwide, based on LaFlamme (Fin) grad- received the Dan Barash publications in market- uated with an MBA in Scholarship. ing’s top journals during leadership and change Clay Pruitt (Film, the past decade. management from CU Thtr) wrote and directed Julia Rhine (Class) Denver, where she was a short film, Our Place was promoted to share- an outstanding graduate. Together, starring a holder in Brownstein’s She wrote, “I will always Tony Award nominee. Denver office in January be a Buff, but I am now a The film held its North 2021. As a member of the proud Lynx, too.” American premiere firm’s Energy & Natural in August 2020 at the Resources Department, In January Outfest Los Angeles Julia helps her clients ’14 2021, Kissinger LGBTQ Film Festival. traverse Colorado’s oil & Fellman P.C. an- The film follows two and gas landscape. nounced that attorney young husbands as Brandon Dittman (Law) they confront a diagno- Drawing expe- had become a share- sis and its ramifications. ’09 rience from her holder in the law firm. Clay writes that the film Colorado upbringing, Brandon joined Kissinger was inspired by both Stephanie Harper (Engl) & Fellman in 2015. of his parents’ cancer wrote a novel, Wesley diagnoses and corre- Yorstead Goes Outside, Sam sponding struggles. released in October 2020. ’16 Goodman Law firm Holland Lifelong horn play- (PhDChemEngr) writes & Hart welcomed 15 er Maddie Levinson that he has authored attorneys, including (MMus) has sewn over a book on “climate Colorado Law alumni 1,300 French horn bell change, how we can Brad Williams (Law), covers and “brass take action on it right Jordan Bunch (Engl’08; masks” to prevent the now and how that Law’11), Kevin McAd- spread of COVID-19 while will impact society.” am (Law’10) and Nathan allowing wind and brass Titled Beyond Carbon Mutter (Law’15), to the musicians to continue Neutral, his book is firm’s partnership in playing together. Maddie slated to be published January 2021. has donated many of in April 2021. The frosty Flatirons make for a glorious view outside of the CU Events Center.

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59 COLORADAN SPRING 2021 60 FEEDback as Facebook, Google and Twitter. Interesting- ly, CU professors Hopp and Ferrucci write that Facebook now removes news it deems inaccurate and sends out warnings to those who have liked or shared it. The ques- In our Fall tion I would ask — who 2020 issue, Forever is to judge our freedom Buffs — of speech? Short of students obscene content, I would and alumni say it is entirely up to — shared the reader to decide, not deeply per- journalists, professors or sonal sto- tech giants. ries about Pete Rabbitt (Mktg’64) systemic "When everything is true, nothing is,” Newport Beach, Cali- Coloradan. racism and asserted one article in the injustice on fornia and around changing how we deal globalism, name your cam- The issue of mislead- with this attack on our ism — is all the media pus and ing the public through information systems, will show. illuminated incorrect informa- with intent to disrupt, I hope universities, the pathways tion or deliberate manipulate and tear news, social media and forward. disinformation cannot apart our society. tech companies start be overemphasized. John Radley Matis re-embracing a respect I grew up in Boul- COVID Economy Tiny, local events (Geol’67) for the free exchange der in the 1940s Thanks for the feature can be magnified and Loveland, Colorado of ideas that the First and 50s, living in on Richard Wobbekind. I dispersed as “national Amendment protects, the rooming and first met Rich news” via a simple post I wanted to respond to boarding house in the late on the internet. Fabri- the article titled “Fake my mother ran for 1980s cated posts — designed News.” Unfortunately, college students when I to distort facts and this article misses the on the Hill. The began my inflame human emotions point. No doubt there Coloradan always career in — are used to distort are many fake stories brings back pow- local and our values as a nation of the kind the author erful memories. regional and incite distrust and points out — I do not Richard Wobbekind The Fall 2020 economic hostility among our question those. But issue with its em- development. We’ve citizens. what the author, and phasis on racism been collaborators The “Fake News” most likely the universi- was particularly ever since and now are article in the fall issue ty, fails to recognize is meaningful given friends, too. Much of of the Coloradan only that most mainstream my subsequent what I know about the touches the surface of media has gradually involvement with Boulder and Colorado this clear and present become fake — the civil rights economies I learned from danger to our democra- meaning they Beyond a movement. During him. “First and foremost cy. I suggest developing only espouse and Moment, a vacations with the CU an educator,” indeed! a focus group — made endlessly push Movement dorms closed, my moth- Clif Harald (DistSt’75) up of individuals at CU one left-leaning What a phenomenally er would feed those Boulder in collaboration with ideology. powerful piece! As a (mainly international) other institutions in the When I was a multi-generation CU students who were not Fake News state — to develop a journalism student at Buff, these essays will able to return home, I take issue with the concerted effort and CU in the early 90s, we open up some import- with a special meal “Fake News” article in strategies to help turn discussed concerns ant conversations with at Thanksgiving. I got the recent Coloradan. this around. It’s not about concentration of my family. an amazing education There have been recent enough to just sit back ownership, but nothing Kristi Bishop eating with them. congressional hearings and think or write about was done about it. And (Mktg’07; MBA’10) Ray McKinnis (Phil’61) on the unmitigated pow- it. Our “best and the here we are, where one Erie, Colorado Raleigh, North Carolina er of organizations such brightest” need to start idea — progressivism,

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then start rejecting the Social Bu s concept of “safe spaces” Volume 25, Number 2 where no one can even ’Tis the Spring 2021 Season for consider ideas to wran- Coloradan aims to inform, inspire gle the best ones. Buffs Pride and foster community among Laura Wright #skobuffs alumni, friends and admirers of the @elerik University of Colorado Boulder, (Jour’92) and to engage them in the life of Fort Worth, Texas ledezma the university. Published by the CU Boulder Alumni Association, the magazine appears in print Yard Signs three times annually, and online at With CU being a forerun- colorado.edu/coloradan. ner on environmentalism, How to Reach Us I would have hoped that [email protected]; 303-492-8484 the “Yard Signs” article Koenig Alumni Center, University of Colorado, Boulder CO 80309-0459 would have noted the massive downside of all Update Your Address [email protected] those signs. So. Many. Signs. 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Though Pearl Street wasn’t always so developed, it has been a Boulder hub since 1859. The thoroughfare began as a muddy road — patrons ambled down wooden sidewalks, and miners in wagon convoys paraded past storefronts on their way into the winding canyon. Automobiles arrived in the early 1900s, and this popular street became the first paved road in Boulder. Though it has changed over the years, two things have remained: Pearl Street is the heartbeat of the city and has always held the same sweeping Flatirons views.

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