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Timothy William Stanton matriculated at the University of Colorado Boulder on Sept. 5, 1877, the school’s first day of classes — ever. Stanton was a senior in high school, attending a college-prep school located in Old Main, the only building on campus.

Turns out, it took a physicist to unlock some key findings about how cells actually divide, and Robert Blackwell, who recently received his PhD in biological physics from the University of Colorado Boulder, apparently stepped up to the plate in a big way.

Hamstra will one day be an ecocriticism scholar for an English department not unlike the one here at ����������ý�Ļ���Ʒ, “or maybe this exact one,” said Hamstra.

Simple twists of fate propelled Joyce Earickson toward the study of Italian, then English, divinity and psychology. She has taught Italian, French, English, and world religions; comforted families of those who were critically injured and gravely ill; and worked with autistic and disabled children.

Two-time Emmy-winning producer and University of Colorado Boulder alumna Alexis Martin Woodall (BFA-film production, BA-film studies ’02) says ����������ý�Ļ���Ʒ’s film-studies program gave her the power to craft compelling stories on the editing floor.

Dave Woodall, once an aspiring lawyer, says ����������ý�Ļ���Ʒ education gave him the tools to open a from-scratch, comfort restaurant that ‘recalls glamour of mid-century Hollywood.’

John Warner is a dentist who’s climbed and skied mountains in the United States, Canada, South America and Europe, raced motorcycles and mountain bikes, and, incidentally, served as a town mayor, search-and-rescue volunteer, orchestra backer, and dentist-of-mercy in Guatemala.

Five alumni and one student from ����������ý�Ļ���Ʒ’s College of Arts and Sciences were recognized for their outstanding service to the campus and community at the 87th annual alumni award celebration of the Alumni Association of the University of Colorado Boulder.

Tina Goldstein, associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh and a ����������ý�Ļ���Ʒ alumna, has won the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Goldstein is one of a select group of researchers chosen by President Barack Obama to receive this honor.

����������ý�Ļ���Ʒ alumna Jade Cooley begins her science talks to students throughout Washington by saying, “My name is Jade, and I once set off explosives in Antarctica for science. Now I’m going to tell you about glaciology.” Cooley, a physics graduate, spent six weeks conducting research and camping on Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf last November.