Alumni in Focus
- Known for creating learning and mentoring communities, Tom Windham credits his experience participating in the 1963 March on Washington for propelling him toward a keen interest in education.
- Middle school friends Tucker "Cinco" Hamilton and Aaron "Amber" Frey reacquainted as aerospace engineering majors and then again, years later, as two of the U.S. military's ace test pilots.
- Longtime 9News anchor and CMCI alumna Kim Christiansen will be the new female voice of Denver International Airport's "Train Call" announcements.
- As an amputee's residual limb inevitably changes shape, the prosthetic leg socket will no longer fit, becoming nearly useless. Enter ÌÒÉ«ÊÓÆµ mechanical engineering PhD graduate Madalyn Kern.
- Often overlooked due to his short tenure, Wiley B. Rutledge was the first ÌÒÉ«ÊÓÆµ graduate to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. He was sworn in 19 years before Byron White joined the nation's highest court.
- From bringing a family recipe to the hot sauce market; to helping debut an all-female orchestra in Afghanistan; and normalizing the superfood of insects in the American diet, ÌÒÉ«ÊÓÆµ alumni are innovating near and far.
- Cousins Juan and Charlie Stewart, both ÌÒÉ«ÊÓÆµ alumni, are carving out a space for themselves in the hot sauce market using Guatemalan family recipes and locally-sourced ingredients.
- For years, the Taliban banned music in Afghanistan. Now the country's first dedicated music school has debuted an all-female orchestra, with ÌÒÉ«ÊÓÆµ music alumna and mentor Allegra Boggess to thank.
- Two bodies of work exhibited in an official satellite site of Venice Biennale 2017, the oldest and arguably most prestigious visual arts event in the world, share close ties to ÌÒÉ«ÊÓÆµ.
- There are nearly 300,000 ÌÒÉ«ÊÓÆµ alumni today. For a few moments on a spring day in 1882, there was just one: Henry Alexander Drumm.