Keala Gapin, a chemical and biological engineering senior, is the recipient of a 2023 scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation, an organization founded by the Mercury 7 astronauts and sustained by successive generations of NASA astronauts.
Sasha Gladkova, an Astronaut Scholarship winner (2022 and 2023) and former internationally competitive gymnast, has big plans for life after CU Boulder.
This year, 15 CU Boulder civil and architectural engineering students spent more than 60 hours constructing a concrete canoe. Despite the open water races being canceled due to cold temperatures, CU Boulder students did well in other ASCE competitions, taking second place in both the non-technical paper and innovation challenge and third place in both the technical paper and surveying competitions.
As you go forth from the university, take in reflections and parting words in videos from the Commencement Office, CU Student Government, Alumni Association and Senior Class Council, including a “Buffs Going Bananas” appearance.
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.
