Students in Focus
- Minnesota native McKinley Wright IV is the All-Pac-12 First Team point guard on the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ men’s basketball team. The 6-foot junior shares his thoughts on toughness, leadership and managing high expectations.
- Senior Class Council sat down with Tiara Stephan for this senior student spotlight. She dishes on what she’s up to this year, talks graduation plans, offers advice for freshmen and more.
- A year and a half after starting the company, ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder startup ShineOn has grown to five employees and is preparing to launch its first product for cycling enthusiasts.
- Hallie Adams is returning to grad school for a PhD in geography and ecohydrology. This year she received a Graduate Research Fellowship Program award from the National Science Foundation.
- With a political science degree and experience as the battalion commander of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder’s Army ROTC unit, Smith will continue training as a logistics officer before joining the 16th Combat Aviation Regiment at Fort Lewis.
- The College of Arts and Sciences outstanding graduate turned out to be much better at science than she’d thought possible. With physics and astronomy degrees in hand, she heads to Harvard this fall.
- The first cohort of master’s in higher education students graduated this spring. The School of Education program is a collaboration with departments across campus that combines scholarly work and experiential learning.
- Engineers Without Borders led Gile to Rwanda, where he developed a system for collecting clean water, and earned him Mechanical Engineering’s outstanding graduate for international engagement award.
- The dissertations of the five 2019 graduates—all women—of ATLAS’s technology, media and society doctorate program emphasize empowering groups that tend to be less engaged in engineering fields.
- After serving in the Air Force, college life didn’t challenge Senior the way he’d hoped; so he sought out a job in University Libraries, where his supervisors say he always went above and beyond.