Composer and multi-media artist Pamela Z (MusEdu) was awarded the Frederic A. Juilliard/Walter Damrosch Rome Prize for musical composition last April. The prize includes an 11-month fellowship in the Italian capital. Pamela is considered a pioneer of digital looping, and won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004.

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Former Buffs football player and assistant coach Brian Cabral (Rec) retired last year, but that doesn’t mean he’s fin-ished with the program. New head coach Mel Tucker considers Brian a mentor and character coach to the players and staff. To underscore his lifetime of service to the football program, Brian was elected to the CU Athletic Hall of Fame last November.

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Carolyn J. Stefanco (Hist), president of the College of Saint Rose, was elected to the Commission on Independent Colleges & Universities (CICU) board of trustees.

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The Academyof Legal Studies in Business presented Lucien Dhooge (Hist) with its distinguished career faculty award at its annual conference. Lucien is the Sue and John Staton Professor of Law at Georgia Tech, where he teaches international business law, legal aspects of business and ethical decision-making.

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As part of her semi-retirement, Sheryl Dumont (PE) writes that she New CU Ƶ students performed the wave at the “Welcome to Our Herd” event in August.spends half of her year in Firestone, Colo., and the other half in Boston, where she manages a personal pet and in-home housesitting service.

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CU Ƶ’s David Plati (Jour) was inducted into the Collegiate Sports Information Directors of America Hall of Fame. He has worked as CU Director of SportsInformation for 35 years.

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This year Anamaria Kazanis (MEcon) was appointed to the American Statistical Association Board of Directors. Anamaria, a resident of Ann Arbor, Mich., joined the association as a graduate student at the University of Michigan. After years of conducting research studies, she founded ASKSTATS Consulting to work as a statistical consultant.

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Deborah Yardley Beers (DMus) performed her original piano piece “Variations on a Laundry Song” at the Women, Feminists and Music: Transforming Tomorrow Today conference, held at Berklee College of Music in June. Deborah is a faculty member at Rivers School Conservatory in Weston, Mass.

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Marquis Who’s Who recognized Geary Larrick (DMus) with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award this year for excellence in the fields of music and education. Geary is a retired professor of music at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, and still performs in the area.

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A group of alums traveled to Martha’s Vineyard this summer, wrote Katharine Montstream (Soc) of Burlington, Vt. The Buffs included Jen Barrow (Econ’90;MPubHealth’98) of Denver, Charlotte Dworshak (Engl’13) of Burlington, Mike Quas (Kines’92; MD’97) of Burlington, and Sydney Montstream-Quas (IntlAf, Hist’91; MPub-Health’97) of Barrington, R.I. Katharine writes, “We were there to boogie board, fish, swim, hang out on the dock and visit with family and friends.”

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Bradford Geiger (Phil;Law’88) of Highlands Ranch, Colo., was confirmed by the Colorado Senate to serve as a citizen member of the state’s Juvenile Parole Board. Originally appointed by Governor Hickenlooper in 2017, Bradford was reappointed by Governor Polis in 2019 and will serve a four-year term.

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Durango, Colo., resident Tim Thomas (Jpn) teaches wilderness medicine and serves as a senior polar tourism guide in Antarctica. Last fall he worked for the U.S. Antarctic Program, helping with safety issues along the highway connecting McMurdo and Amundsen-Scott South Pole Stations. He considers himself semi-retired.

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After graduating from CU, Bill Schoewe (PolSci) received his law degree from the University of Denver. Among other professional experience, Bill ran his own firm for 15 years as a criminal defense lawyer and worked as a senior attorney for the Colorado Public Defenders office for 10 years. He writes, “I would love to hear from my old friends, especially those I worked with in the Peer Counselors Office in the College of Arts and Sciences.” His email is wild4533@aol.com. He lives in Colorado Springs. 

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Francie Ernest Low (Mktg) published Alive and Fixable, a memoir about her and her husband Tony Low (ElEngr,Mktg’87), who met at CU. Francie writes that Tony was in a near-fatal cycling accident in 2010 and spent 15 months recovering. He was desperate to return to cycling despite the harrowing crash. The couple lives in the San Francisco Bay Area but returns to Colorado every Christmas to visit family and experience the snowy winter.

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This year Rick Bushnell (IntlAf) received the Governor’s Award for Leadership Management from Washington Gov. Jay Inslee. Rick, real estate operations manager for the Department of Enterprise Services, was one of 20 to receive the award. By negotiating more favorable leases for state facilities, Rick saved Washington taxpayers $2.2 million in 2018.

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Sabine Kortals (Fin,Mus; MJour’96) married Malte Stein on July 6 near Hamburg, Germany. Sabine is a freelance writer based out of Hamburg and Denver.

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NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified) is the latest book from poet Matthew Cooperman (MEngl) and his wife, Aby Kaupang. It is just one of many books written by Matthew, an English professor at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.

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Architecture and design firm Perkins and Will named Robin Ault (Arch) its Denver design director. Robin has designed several buildings, including the Humanities Gateway building at the University of California, Irvine, which won a LEED Platinum Award.

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Darlene Kondo (MElEngr; Law’07) was hired by Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, joining the intellectual property department in its Denver office. Darlene is also a board member of the Colorado Asian Pacific American Bar Association. 

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Qin Liu (ElEngr;MBA’04) and Rong Pan (MBA’03) took their love for tea and turned it into Ka Chu Tea House, which offers more than 170 tea varieties. Originally named The Leaf, it moved twice before landing on Pearl Street. There are now locations in Fort Collins and Cherry Creek.

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