Alumni in Focus
- When the 2024 Academy Award nominees for best film editing are announced, Nick Houy is widely expected to be one of them for his work editing “Barbie.†Houy is a 2004 graduate of CU Boulder.
- Three College of Music alumni recently started the Scheherazade Music Festival—an incubator for innovation and connection through chamber music, pushing the art form forward and bringing performers, composers and audiences together.
- College of Music alumnus Dylan Fixmer’s varied and prolific career aims to inspire empathy and advance community engagement.
- With help from National Geographic, CU Boulder alumnus Markos Scheer expands a kelp farm to include oysters, and he touts the economic and environmental benefits of the venture.
- Gary Wall, a 1970 CU Boulder physics graduate, won the Los Alamos Medal in recognition of more than 50 years of distinguished work at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
- Charles Hull—a CU Boulder alumnus who invented stereolithography, commonly known as 3D printing—was named among the 2023 recipients of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
- College of Music alumna Indigo Fischer reflects on her time at CU Boulder and discusses her new role at the Music Academy of the West.
- CU Boulder alumnus Mike Moreau has had a major role in ensuring the success of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission and most important challenge.
- Zoё Rom, environmental journalist and editor-in-chief of Trail Runner magazine, leverages stories from running and other endurance sports to start climate discussions.
- Paul Lichty’s journey from doctoral student to running one of the world’s top atomic layer deposition companies was shaped by his time at CU Boulder.