Jenny graduated in 2019 with a major in Chemical and Biological Engineering. She is originally from Goleta, California but moved to Boulder, Colorado as a kid. In her free time, she enjoys reading, playing video games, and generally being a massive nerd. Jenny spent two summers as a lab assistant in an ovarian cancer lab at the Anschutz Medical Campus. That experience made her realize that she could apply her...
Maria is a Latina scholar from a little town in Colorado who graduated in 2019 with a degree in International Affairs. She was part of many student groups and fellowship during her time at CU Boulder. Maria hopes to become an example for her younger brother and other minorities to show them that it’s possible to be successful despite being first-generation students. In her free time, she watches The Office,...
Jeremy graduated in 2019 with a degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. FDuring his time at CU, he built predictive models related to the occurrence, management, and impacts of natural disasters. This involves using satellites, weather records, and Twitter in artificial intelligence models deployed on cloud servers across multiple cores. He finds it really fulfilling to make tools that can help prepare and deal with devastating events, and he hopes...
Kellie is originally from Greeley, Colorado, but in the past she has lived in Chicago, England, and Steamboat Springs. She loves to travel, and also enjoys archery, hiking, playing the flute, reading, board games, and sushi. Kellie received her associate’s degree from Colorado Mountain College in Steamboat Springs before transferring to the University of Colorado Boulder. The focus of her research at CU was to see if it is possible...
Kaitlingraduated in 2019 with a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and plans on attending graduate school in Munich, Germany. While at CU, she conducted research on automating thresholds for machine learning, and sworked in a lab on campus that sets up WiFi long distance and micro-grid power systems for developing communities. Her lab group worked on providing 24/7 power to a refugee camp in Zambia. Kaitlin traveled to this...
Yosan graduated in 2019 with a degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He was born Ethiopia and his interests are in medicine. His research area at CU was the connection between rising inflammation and the rising risk of stress-related psychotic disorders. The project he completed tested the hypothesis that immunization with a heat-killed preparation of an immunoregulatory bacterium, Mycobacterium Vaccae, can induce a shift toward a more proactive behavioral response...
Aaron graduated in 2019 with a degree in Chemical Engineering. He grew up and spent the first 21 years of his life in the small town of Washington, Missouri. His parents encouraged him to be active in sports, scouts, and school, and this encouragement helped him find some of his first interests in outdoor recreation and chemistry. After moving to Colorado, he was able to better develop his outdoor interests...
Maya graduated in 2019 with a degree in Astronomy and a minor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. She conducted various research projects at both CU and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). She enjoys baking, video games, and crafting, and loves when science and art combine and the fact that we are answering life- and world-changing questions by approaching things from multiple disciplines. Maya is pursuing a PhD in Earth Sciences...
