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Amid countless challenges, Leeds graduates transformed the school, campus and world through their work. And they’re just getting started.​ Here are some of their stories.

Brian Tan taught himself calculus at 13, took the SAT at 14, got a GED at 16 and got his associate's degree in computer science in the same year. Tan is young, but it is also his contributions to his classes and research groups on which his collaborators and mentors remark.

Rita Garson, now 76, will celebrate her special day at CU Boulder with her sister, adult children and grandchildren, two of whom are also alumni.

Read words of wisdom from some of the many talented and innovative students who are graduating and starting on their next adventures. As they become Forever Buffs, they leave their inspirational legacies—with advice and reflection—for those who follow.

Flute performance major Andrea Kloehn is this semester's Outstanding Graduating Senior. Learn more about her and the other College of Music winter graduates.

Shloka Dhar, who majored in art practices and molecular, cellular and developmental biology, is the College of Arts and Sciences’ outstanding graduate for fall 2022.

Rylee Vogel is an actor and a communicator. This year, she’s also the recipient of the William W. White Outstanding Graduate Award, an honor bestowed to the student graduating with the highest GPA in the College of Media, Communication and Information.

College of Engineering and Applied Science senior Emma Andreasen went from a high school student who had not been exposed to any software to teaching the intro to engineering computing course.

It wasn’t enough for Benjamin Chilton to study chemical engineering at CU Boulder. While at the university he became a firefighter, a course assistant and student ambassador, as well as studied subjects far outside the breadth of engineering.

Sarah Luettgen is building a future as an aerospace professional, studying the space domain of satellite orbits in the extreme upper reaches of Earth’s atmosphere.