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Dear Alumni and Friends, Greetings from ÐßÐßÊÓƵ! We have finished another wonderful academic year, and we hope that you are doing well, too. Here is some news about the Herbst Program. We hope you’ll read on for some longer articles and also for briefer updates. A lot has been happening!...

The biggest social event of the last year was the party for Linda and Clancy Herbst on Nov. 3. We co-hosted it with the college’s Advancement team, just to say thank you to Linda and Clancy for starting the Program and for sustaining it through the years. The party was...

Professor David Clough of chemical and biological engineering is retiring this month after 42 years with the College of Engineering and Applied Science. You might not know it, but Dave was part of the team that helped Herbst get started. He was associate dean for education when the program was...

Last summer, we announced the 2015 death of Athanasios (Thanasi) Moulakis, the program’s founding director. If you were here in the Program’s first decade or so, you will remember Thanasi’s vibrant and dynamic personality. He taught many sections of its original seminars as well as History of Technology and Engineering...

Hello, Alumni and Friends! It’s been another wonderful year for the Herbst Program. Our biggest news is that our instructor search has been successful. From a field of more than 170 applicants, the eight Herbst faculty unanimously agreed on the two top candidates: Shilo Brooks and Laura Rabinowitz . Both...

This past semester, with the generous support of the Engineering Excellence Fund and the Dean’s Office, Herbst hosted Stuart Russell , a professor of computer science at University of California, Berkeley. Russell, a lively, thoughtful and compelling speaker, is an international authority on artificial intelligence whose book " Artificial Intelligence:...

Our two newest hires, Andrea Kowalchuk and Paul Diduch , have just completed their first year—and they did a terrific job. In them, Herbst has found two excellent teachers, generous colleagues and strong supporters of the Great Books tradition. In the spring of 2016, Paul and Andi will be hosting...

Anyone who did their Herbst coursework in the first decade of the program will remember Dr. Athanasios Moulakis, the founding director of the program who turned Linda and Clancy Herbst’s dream into a reality. Thanasi, as he was known to us all, passed away in July 2015. Thanasi was an...

What happens to Herbsters once they leave the College of Engineering and Applied Science? Where are they now, and how did they get there? We asked two alumni for updates. Cory Oldweiler When I was a CU engineering student, there was always an answer, one a finite effort would delineate...