Sean Matthews (Fin) joined Rovi Corporation in Santa Clara, Calif., as executive vice president for strategy and corporate development. He is responsible for the company’s strategic growth opportunities. Previously, Sean worked in leadership roles with Google and Motorola.

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Tracy Wahl (Comm) is executive producer for National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition,” which reaches more than 13 million listeners. She joined NPR in 1997 and has produced radio and multimedia pieces all over the world. She was a key player in building “Morning Edition’s” social media operation.

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Paul Zaidins (Acct) and Sharon Morris Zaidins (Fin’88) were part of a group that acquired DataSpan, a Dallas-based provider of data storage, protection, data center infrastructure and wireless communication solutions. Paul was named chairman of the company’s board and is also the founder and managing partner. Sharon is managing director of BoneFish Capital, which sourced, negotiated and arranged financing for the transaction. The couple lives in Coppell, Texas.

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Heath Prince (IntlAf), an education and workforce development researcher, was named director of the Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources in the University of Texas at Austin’s Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. He joined the center in 2012 as a research scientist and associate director.

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Abe “Quint” Shafer (PolSci) was appointed by the governor of Missouri as an associate circuit court judge for Missouri’s sixth judicial circuit. He resides in rural Weston, Mo., with his wife, Christy, and their two children. Quint also serves as an adjunct professor in the MBA program at Benedictine College, where he teaches business law and ethics.

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Steve Zemanick (ElEngr) opened a solo law practice specializing in trademark and copyright law called Four Reasons Legal. He lives in Denver with his wife and three children, who inspired the firm’s name.

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Moyra Knight (Jour) joined the pharmaceutical company Astellas as head of corporate and employee communications. Moyra is responsible for developing and leading corporate brand initiatives across North and South America. She has more than 20 years of communications experience in the healthcare and consumer industries. She lives in Glenview, Ill.

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Last year Sabine Kortals (Bus, Mus; MJour’96) traveled to Ghana with Project C.U.R.E. and to Uganda and Rwanda with the Wirth Chair in Sustainable Development and the Global Livingston Institute as a field reporter to support humanitarian relief efforts. The Denver Woman’s Press Club awarded Sabine’s poem about Ghana, “Stop Trying,” first prize in its 2014 In-House Writers’ Contest. She also has launched an eZine about women driving social change,Woman ChangeMAKER. Find out more at womanchangemaker.net.

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What would it be like for ten present-day people to be transported into the dinosaur age? Check out Geoff Jones’ (Engl) book, The Dinosaur Four. Geoff received inspiration for his book after visiting the University of Colorado Natural History Museum.

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Free time is rare for Esther Manheimer (Anth), mayor of Asheville, N.C. She’s also a mother of three and works as a commercial litigation attorney at Van Winkle Law Firm. As mayor, she is a proponent of affordable housing in and of growing the city’s economy.

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Will Newcomer (Mktg) owns a sports marketing company and organizes adventure, mountain bike and running races throughout the Rocky Mountains. He lives in Durango, Colo.

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Shane M. Niebergall (PolSci) has been named partner at law firm Perkins Coie. He is a member of the firm’s intellectual property practice in the Denver office. He has prepared and prosecuted hundreds of patent applications in diverse technologies, including in the petroleum, medical devices, robotics and telecommunications industries.

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Puget Sound Energy, Washington state’s oldest local energy company, named Jason Teller (PolSci) to its senior leadership team as vice president of customer solutions. Jason and his wife, Amy Teller (Acct’96), a full-time mother, live in Sammamish, Wash., with their three daughters, Lauren, Ava and Genevieve.

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After graduating from CU, Alexander Schuler (Bio, EnvCon) left Boulder for nine years, then returned with the goal of owning his own small business. Now he owns two — Arugula and Tangerine restaurants.

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Former English teacher Melinda MacInnis’s (MEngl) trip to Swaziland seven years ago led her to take an eye-opening trip around the globe to film The Price a documentary about rhino poaching and the issues that arise from it. She was honored as one of National Geographic’s 2014 Travelers of the Year for her efforts. Melinda lives in Boulder.

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CU couple Dipesh Amin (Bio, Econ; MD’05) and Sita Kedia (MCDBio, Ger’01, MD’05, MPubHealth’14) are physicians by day, restaurant owners by night. The duo and a friend opened Table Top last summer in Denver’s Park Hill neighborhood. The restaurant focuses on new American cuisine and craft beer.

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Carlos Hernandez (EnvDes) joined William Fox (CivEngr’86) and Steve Tuttle (CivEngr’94) as partner in the Fox Tuttle Hernandez Transportation Group. The firm is based in Boulder County and provides transportation planning and engineering support to communities across Colorado.

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Lindsay McKae (Econ, PolSci) of Denver was elected partner of the law firm Lewis Roca Rothgerber. She represents lending institutions in complex finance transactions. She also advises ‎private and public clients on acquisitions, dispositions, development and leasing of real estate assets, in addition to business formations, corporate ‎compliance and stock and asset sales and purchases.

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After serving as a communications officer in the U.S. Marine Corps, working for Space Systems Loral in Palo Alto, Calif., and for Eaton Corporation in Costa Mesa, Calif., Adam Brammer (Mgmt) was promoted to plant manager at a $300-million, 900-person Parker Hannifin aircraft actuator manufacturing plant in Irvine, Calif. The plant manufactures aileron, rudder and stabilator actuators for almost all existing military aircraft.

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After nine years in Oregon, two-time Olympian Kara Wheeler Goucher (Psych) and husband Adam Goucher(Comm’98) decided to move back to Colorado. Kara’s running career has been complicated by injuries, and she is eager to train again under her former CU coaches, Mark Wetmore and Heather Burroughs.

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