Students in Focus
Joelle Westcott is using high-speed centrifuges to study soil during earthquakes.
Whitney Knoop, an undergraduate in the Environmental Engineering Program, spent her summer creating pasta-shaped 3D-printed plastic for use in water reclamation efforts.
“American Ninja Warrior” tests physical and mental toughness. And, thanks to his training regime at CU Boulder’s Leeds School of Business, Nate Hansen has both.
The recent unexpected and turbulent times have been difficult for many students, but international students have often been met with even more challenges and considerable roadblocks. Chieri Kamada is among them.
Like many college students, Giovanni Hernandez has a lot on his plate. He’s excelling in challenging engineering coursework as a civil engineering major, with an emphasis in construction engineering and management, and maintaining a 4.0 GPA.
Growing up in Southern California, Holly Hunter faced her share of naysayers. Hunter, who was born 100 percent deaf in both ears, was told by some she wasn't going to be able to keep up in school. But those doubters just served as fuel.
For her honors thesis, media production major Taylor Passios turned her apartment into an immersive exhibit to illuminate the role of online information overload in COVID-19-related hypochondria.
A doctoral student and Microsoft research fellow, Scheuerman has worked with companies such as Facebook and Google to spot social issues within technology design, such as how race and gender are represented.
Briana Aboulache and Karolin Luger won the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam fellowship, which looks to build a more inclusive scientific environment.
CU Boulder’s Kelly Zepelin won the David M. Schneider Award from the American Anthropological Association.