Mike Carter-Conneen (Jour), a former D.C. TV reporter and anchor, is now director of corporate communications at CarbonCure Technologies. In April, the company won the $20 million Carbon XPRIZE for its innovations in carbon dioxide removal, transforming concrete into a climate solution.

Posted Nov. 5, 2021

Dave Simeone (Engl) was recently hired as a digital project manager at Loptr LLC, western New York’s leading cybersecurity firm. 

Posted Mar. 4, 2021

To say that Kyla Duffy (Mktg, Span) has been keeping busy since graduation would be an understatement. After a two-year stint as the national sales manager at Eldorado Climbing Walls in Boulder, Kyla started a publishing company, earned a master’s degree and began teaching sales management at CU. In 2012, Duffy joined a circus in Japan and stayed with it for seven years, meeting her husband. Most recently, she moved to Mexico, launched her own business and wrote Launch a Powerful Job Search in 7 Days, released in 2020.

Posted Mar. 4, 2021

While his grandmother battled COVID-19, Corey Cappelloni (Law) dropped everything and ran — literally — to be there for her as best he could. An experienced ultra-marathoner, Corey spent seven days running the 220 miles from Washington, D.C., to his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, which was the equivalent of an ultra-marathon each day. In the process he raised over $25,000 for his nana’s nursing home. He spoke to her through a megaphone from outside her fifth-floor window when finished his quest. “I think this will be the highlight of my running career,” he told Runners World this summer. 

Posted Nov. 11, 2020

In April, Corry Lee (ApMath, EngrPhys) published her first novel, Weave the Lightning. The fantasy novel tackles issues of authority, revolution and trust, set in a backdrop of romance and magic. Corry lives in Seattle.

Posted Jun. 1, 2020

Matthew Arentsen (IntlAf) has been named shareholder of Denver’s Brownstein Hyatt Farber and Schreck law firm.

Posted Jun. 1, 2020

Super Lawyers magazine named Colin Boyle (Phil) one of its 2019 Massachusetts Super Lawyers for his work at Boston labor and employment law firm Morgan, Brown and Joy. 

Posted Feb. 1, 2020

For the second year in a row, Alex Howell (Mktg) was named one of Forbes’ Best-in-State Next Generation Wealth Advisors for his work at the La Jolla, California, branch of UBS Global Wealth Management. 

Posted Feb. 1, 2020

Ashesh Thaker (BioChem, Engl) and Anuradha Kumar (CompSci’05) gave birth to their second son, Valmik, in October 2019. They recently moved to Denver, and Ashesh is a physician and faculty member at the School of Medicine at CU Anschutz.

Posted Feb. 1, 2020

Boston-based attorney Colin Boyle (Phil’04) was selected as a 2018 Massachusetts Super Lawyer. Colin, an associate at the law firm Morgan, Brown & Joy, was selected as a “Rising Star” for his practice in collective bargaining and labor law. 

Posted Mar. 1, 2019

Brandi N. Ring (MCDBio, EPOBio) was elect National Junior Fellow Vice Chair for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). Her term began in April 2018 and will run for three years. Brandi is an obstetrician and gynecologist for Mile High OB/GYN in Denver.

Posted Jun. 1, 2018

Crystal R. Watson (MCDBio) is a senior scholar at the John Hopkins Center for Health Security and assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She specializes in public health risk assessment, crisis and risk-based decision making, public health and healthcare preparedness and responses, biodefense and emerging infectious disease preparedness and response. From 2012 to 2013, she served as the program manager for the Integrated Terrorism Risk Assessment program for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Posted Jun. 1, 2018

Film editor Nick Houy (Art) won the 2017 Emmy Award for Outstanding Single- Camera Picture Editing for a Limited Series or Movie for the miniseries The Night Of. Nick lives in New York.

Posted Dec. 1, 2017

In August, attorney Patrick A. Salvi II (Mgmt) won a record-breaking $148 million jury award for a young woman who was paralyzed when a pedestrian shelter outside O’Hare International Airport collapsed on her in 2015. It is the most a jury has awarded in a personal injury case against the city of Chicago, the Chicago Tribune reported.

Posted Dec. 1, 2017

San Francisco resident Max Kiefer (Mgmt) was named director of business development for Healthy Buildings, a consulting firm. Max, who is currently pursuing a master’s degree in sustainability from Harvard University, is a member of the U.S. Green Building Council, the Building Owners and Managers Association and the National Resource Defense Council.

Posted Sep. 1, 2017

Denver resident Jonathan M. Lucero (Fin; Law’07) was appointed to sit as a part-time magistrate in Denver County Court. Outside his judicial duties he continues in his private practice as a senior associate with the law firm of Hernandez & Associates.

Posted Sep. 1, 2017

J. Ernesto Ortiz-Diaz (MSpan) has received tenure at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn. His interests include Latin American and 19th-century literature with a focus on narrative and poetry.

Posted Jun. 1, 2017

In January attorney Aron Beezley (PolSci) was made partner at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP in Washington, D.C. Aron focuses his practice on government contracts and construction law.

Posted Mar. 1, 2017

Alexander J.A. Garcia (Acct, PolSci) has been named partner in law firm Perkins Coie’s trademark, copyright, media and brand protection practice. He helps clients in the selection, clearance and maintenance of trademarks in the United States as well as abroad. Alex and wife Jennifer live in Denver with their two children.

Posted Mar. 1, 2017

In September Giordin Perlman (AeroEngr) gave a talk at the CU Discovery Learning Center on autonomous systems. Giordin is the chief engineer for Northrop Grumman. Her team made aviation history in April 2015 with the first autonomous aerial refueling demonstration of an unmanned air vehicle. Giordin and husband Steven married late last year. They live in California.

Posted Dec. 1, 2016

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