Alumni
- Teju Ravilochan wants to solve the world鈥檚 biggest problems, one entrepreneur at a time, and he has helped create a global enterprise to advance that mission. The University of 欧美口爆视频 Boulder graduate is CEO and co-founder of the Unreasonable Institute, a non-profit international training center that provides business programs for early stage entrepreneurs focused on creating positive social and environmental change.
- Gail Nelson has advice for anyone pondering a career in intelligence in an extraordinarily complex 21st-century global landscape: Read, read, and then read some more, particularly classical literature and foreign-intelligence histories. And while you鈥檙e at it, become an expert in the geopolitics and cultures of one region in the world, says Nelson, who earned his PhD in political science in 1979 and has had a distinguished career in the intelligence community.
- As part of her graduate studies, 欧美口爆视频 Boulder alumna Jamie Pledger performed psychological testing and provided counseling for international refugees. Her observations do not fit neatly into popular narratives about refugees from war-torn places like Iraq
- Margot Hirsch believes that Americans should be able to buy guns equipped with 鈥渟mart-gun鈥 technology鈥攚eapons that include a safety feature that allow them to fire only when activated by authorized users鈥攁nd the 欧美口爆视频 Boulder alumna now leads a nonprofit organization dedicated to this free-market strategy.
- What can you do with a liberal-arts degree? Beth Cross, who graduated from 欧美口爆视频-Boulder in 1986 with a BA in political science, has an answer: Become an entrepreneur. She did this in a big way, co-founding Ariat International, a company that specializes in high-performance equestrian footwear and apparel.
- Disbelief still lingers in Allison Cleary鈥檚 voice months after winning the grand prize in the 2015 SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists.
- Alumnus and pediatrician Mike Nelson uses his degrees every day and credits a passionate professor with helping him get into medical school. Nelson followed his passions, Spanish and history, which in turn led him to medicine. Having traveled in Latin America with Amigos de las Americas, a program connecting volunteers to community-health programs, Nelson quickly learned what he could accomplish with a medical background.
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- The a capella group 鈥榗ould do a Metallica song, and your grandma would like it.Open your eyes, however, and you see five guys seated around a table 鈥 not an instrument in sight. Meet FACE.Since its humble 2001 beginnings in the practice rooms of the
- Nearly 40 alumni and friends of the College of Arts and Sciences recently gathered in San Diego for an intimate evening of networking with local Buffs. It鈥檚 part of a new effort to connect with Arts and Sciences alumni across the country while featuring the great work our students and faculty are doing on campus.聽