Nick Houy

Making movies that people love watching

Jan. 22, 2024

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.

Paul Zaborac with a saxophone, Cecilia Lo-Chien Kao at piano, and Colleen White with a flute

Alumni launch the Scheherazade Music Festival

Dec. 13, 2023

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.

Dylan Fixmer

Alumnus Dylan Fixmer—composer with a cause

Dec. 6, 2023

College of Music alumnus Dylan Fixmer’s varied and prolific career aims to inspire empathy and advance community engagement.

alumnus Markos Scheer with kelp spools

Kelp and oyster farm yields jobs and hope

Nov. 16, 2023

With help from National Geographic, CU Boulder alumnus Markos Scheer expands a kelp farm to include oysters, and he touts the babyֱapp and environmental benefits of the venture.

Gary Wall receives the Los Alamos Medal

Pursuing purpose through physics

Nov. 10, 2023

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 and President Joe Biden

Alum’s invention of 3D printing recognized by President Biden

Oct. 31, 2023

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.

Indigo Fischer

Alumna spotlight: Indigo Fischer

Oct. 18, 2023

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.

Mike Moreau

Aerospace graduate played leading role in asteroid mission

Sept. 26, 2023

CU Boulder alumnus Mike Moreau has had a major role in ensuring the success of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission and most important challenge.

Zoe Rom running on a trail in the mountains

The sustainable runner: Alumna pens a ‘guide to climate advocacy’

Sept. 12, 2023

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

CU Boulder engineering grad builds world-leading materials science company

Aug. 3, 2023

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.

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