Alumni

On November 20, 2025, the University of Colorado Denver Chemistry Club hosted a Pre-Health Alumni Career Talk— an event designed to connect current students with alumni who are making a difference in the health sciences. The hour-long session brought together students, faculty, and alumni for an open, honest conversation about...

Graduate scholarship in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences reaches far beyond the classroom—and this year’s Outstanding Graduate Award recipients exemplify that impact. Jessica Loeffler, Indira Saha, and Alyssa Hohorst were named Fall 2025 honorees for graduate work that advances scientific understanding, centers community voices, and strengthens teaching and...

More than 1,000 Graduates Celebrated at CU Denver’s Fall Commencement While graduations are marked by traditions—there’s no denying that every graduate comes to that moment with their own story. On Saturday, CU Denver celebrated all of those journeys at fall commencement. Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Genia Herndon served...

Denver Scholarship Foundation celebrated its 2025 Annual Homecoming Gala. The event honored and celebrate the economic impact and accomplishments of Denver Public Schools high school students, DSF scholars and alumni. The Gala featured University of Colorado Denver graduate, Diego Burciaga. He shared his educational journey from North High School to...

Lee’s professional journey did not begin in a boardroom or a laboratory. It began at the bedside of patients in distress. Armed with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from The George Washington University and a dual degree in Philosophy and Psychology from the University of Colorado Denver, Lee entered...

Dr. Michelle DePrenger-Levin, a CU Denver Integrative Biology PhD graduate and Manager of Conservation Programs at Denver Botanic Gardens, joined the In Defense of Plants podcast to share how her team is transforming plant conservation through drone technology. In Episode 521, she discusses the challenges of monitoring rare plant populations...

Isabella Luna , who is graduating with a BA in sociology this spring, has accomplished a lot during her time at CU Denver. She’s a TRIO McNair scholar and has presented her research and pedagogical work in both Hawaii and San Francisco, to name just a few of her accomplishments...

For more than 50 years, CU Denver has offered higher education that fits every stage of people’s lives and careers, whether they’re working parents, transfer students, first-generation students, mid-career strivers, and so much more. As CU Denver celebrates its newest graduates on May 17, in the mix will be two...

University of Colorado Regent and CLAS alum, Nolbert Chavez, was recently interviewed by Denver's 9News on the history of Auraria's 9th Street houses—including his own perspective.

Flying in the dark presents challenges to airborne cooperation, notes biologist Allison Pierce, who studies plover migration at University of Colorado Denver and was not involved in the new paper. For example, visual cues such as another bird’s flight path are absent. “If we could take it from this big...