North Carolina native and former NFL running back Lee Rouson (A&S) visited the McMichael Youth Football Camp last summer in Mayoden, N.C., to share some of his sports experience. While playing for CU in 1981, Lee earned Freshman All Big Eight honors. He played for the New York Giants from 1985 to 1991 and the Cleveland Browns from 1991 to 1992. Lee works as a motivational speaker for Sports World Ministries, traveling to U.S. schools and churches. He and wife Lisa have four children.

Posted Dec. 1, 2017

Chett Rubenstein (Acct) is a group lead and principal architect at Cloud Technology Partners. CTP was recognized as the world’s leading enterprise cloud consulting firm and successfully completed a merger with Hewlett Packard Enterprise. In addition to helping large enterprise clients with cloud architecture, Chett oversees development efforts for the internal portfolio of software that supports overall service delivery.

Posted Dec. 1, 2017

Denver ABC-affiliate KMGH hired Holly Gauntt (Jour) as news director. Holly has worked in newsrooms across the country, including in Seattle, Philadelphia and Baltimore. She is a regional chairperson for the Radio Television Digital News Association.

Posted Mar. 1, 2018

Musician Geary Larrick (DMus) wrote a review of a book about jazz flutist Herbie Mann published in the December 2017 issue of Music Educators Journal. Geary performs on solo marimba each week in Stevens Point, Wisc., where he is a retired music professor from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.

Posted Mar. 1, 2018

Denver International Airport said Kim Christiansen (Jour) will be the new female voice of the airport’s “Train Call” announcements. The competition was open to full-time television anchors and reporters in Denver who have spent at least seven years in the city. Kim, who grew up in Colorado, has spent her entire career at 9News, working as a news writer and producer, general assignment reporter and news anchor. Kim has won seven Heartland regional Emmy awards for spot news, news writing and news reporting.

Posted Jun. 1, 2018

Eric Claman (PolSci) won a seat on the New Hartford, Conn., Board of Selectmen. Prior to entering the political arena, Eric owned and operated two fitness facilities in Connecticut, which he has since sold, and worked as a sales consultant for Twin Oaks Software.

Posted Jun. 1, 2018

For the past four decades, photographer and graphic artist Robert B. Decker (Comm) has been exploring and photographing America’s national parks toraise awareness for their continued protection and operation, and to inspire the next generation of national park supporters. He has been photographing national parks since he was 19, when he studied under Ansel Adams in Yosemite National Park. This summer he’ll photograph the Great Basin and Redwoods parks. Robert, who lives in Longmont, donates 10 percent of his annual profits to organizations supporting the parks.

Posted Jun. 1, 2018

For 50 years, Geary Larrick (DMus) has been writing citations in The Music Index. He wrote a book review of James Strain’s new Percussion Dictionary in the Spring 2018 issue of the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors (NACWPI) Journal. Geary, who is a retired music professor, has written for the NACWPI Journal since 1984. He currently resides in Stevens Point, Wis.

Posted Sep. 1, 2018

Tracy Lehr (Jour) received the California State Capitol “Woman of the Year” award for her coverage of California’s devastating Thomas Fire and Montecito mudslides on Santa Barbara’s ABC-affiliated TV station KEYT and social media. Tracy, who started her journalism career in Vail, has won two Murrow Awards and received three regional Emmy nominations.

Posted Sep. 1, 2018

“I’ve traded the Rockies for the Cascades, of which I have a beautiful view during the few weeks per year when the weather clears!” writes Noel Ludwig (Geol), forest watershed program manager for the Mount Baker- Snoqualmie National Forest in Washington.

Posted Sep. 1, 2018

Chett Rubenstein (Acct) left Hewlett Packard Enterprise to join Cisco as director of Cloud Services Incubation. In this role, Chett is utilizing his decades of experience in web-based software and enterprise cloud services to help Cisco expand its enterprise. “I’ve come a long way since I wrote software on punch cards at CU in the early ’80s!” said Chet, who wrote the first portfolio management system ever used to manage the CU Endowment Fund back in 1983.

Posted Sep. 1, 2018

Chett Rubenstein (Acct) left Hewlett Packard Enterprise to join the networking and IT company Cisco as director of cloud services incubation. Chett helps the company build their portfolio of services for helping customers leverage hybrid cloud technologies. “I’ve come a long way since I wrote software on punch cards at CU in the early ’80s!” said Chett, who wrote the first portfolio management system ever used to manage the CU Endowment Fund back in 1983. 

Posted Nov. 30, 2018

Kathryn Tobey (ChemEngr; MEngrMgmt’94) joined CU as a scholar in residence in the College of Engineering & Applied Science. Previously an executive at Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, Kathryn is developing and teaching courses for the graduate engineering management program. In 2016, she received the university’s George Norlin Award, which celebrates recipients for excellence in their careers and devotion to the betterment of society and community.

Posted Nov. 30, 2018

After working for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in Colorado, Utah and California and serving in the Peace Corps in Cameroon, David Woodward (CivEngr) is now a hydraulic structures engineer at Black & Veatch’s Sacramento office. He focuses on the safety of spillways and outlet works for dams.

Posted Nov. 30, 2018

Frank Abramonte (AeroEngr) joined the Seattle office of Cozen O’Connor, where he is part of the intellectual property practice. Frank specializes in patents in various areas of engineering and previously worked as an engineer in the fields of electrical systems, propulsion, fluid mechanics, surface geometries and structures. 

Posted Nov. 30, 2018

Samuel Austin (Bus; MArch’93) won a Best of Show Award at the 61st Annual Mystic Outdoor Arts Festival in Connecticut. He has been an architect and artist in Boulder for 25 years.

Posted Nov. 30, 2018

Julie Baldwin (MCDBio) was promoted to the rank of Regents’ Professor at the University of Northern Arizona University, the highest rank a faculty member there can achieve. Julie is founding director of the Center for Health Equity Research and lead principal investigator for the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative. Her work includes community-based participatory research with Native American tribes, public health, substance abuse prevention, diabetes and cancer prevention and behavioral and oral health.

Posted Jun. 3, 2019

Tony Evans (Anth), award-winning reporter and columnist at the Idaho Mountain Express in Ketchum, published A History of Indians in the Sun Valley Area in 2017 in collaboration with the Blaine County Museum.

Posted Jun. 3, 2019

Andrew Kelsey (ArchEngr) founded and manages Ascent Group Inc., a structural engineering firm in Boulder. In his free time, he enjoys skiing, mountain and road biking, backpacking and traveling. He and his wife, Amanda, live in Erie, Colo. They have two children in college, one at Montana State University and the other, Courtney (AeroEngr’19), at CU.

Posted Jun. 3, 2019

Noel Ludwig (Geol) joined the U.S. Forest Service’s Mountain Resorts Team at the Rocky Mountain Regional Office in Lakewood, Colo., as the team hydrologist. His work focuses on the impacts of ski area development on water resources in Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico.

Posted Sep. 30, 2019

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