Students in Focus

  • Founders and employees of ShineOn
    A year and a half after starting the company, ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· startup ShineOn has grown to five employees and is preparing to launch its first product for cycling enthusiasts.
  • Hallie Adams
    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.
  • Shane Smith in Army ROTC greens
    With a political science degree and experience as the battalion commander of ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Ʒ’s Army ROTC unit, Smith will continue training as a logistics officer before joining the 16th Combat Aviation Regiment at Fort Lewis.
  • Claire Lamman
    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.
  • School of Education building
    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.
  • Curtis Gile and team in front of water catchment system
    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.
  • ATLAS Center on campus with Flatirons in background
    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.
  • Daniel Senior
    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.
  • Valeria Praga-Rodríguez
    An educator, mother, advocate and learner, Praga-Rodríguez worked to support English learners of all linguistic backgrounds during her time in the Educational Equity and Cultural Diversity master’s program.
  • Esmeralda Castillo-Cobian teaching in classroom
    A passionate advocate and student of students, Castillo-Cobian has brought her experiences as a first-generation college student to her studies at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· and into her K-12 classrooms.
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