When he graduated in May, William Mundo reached a milestone in his journey at the University of Colorado Denver. It’s a journey that almost didn’t even start. It’s good for him—and us—it did. Before William devoted countless hours to his studies over four years and emerged as one of the...
Nothing demands a solution like a broken toilet. That’s what Mae Rohrbach learned in the UCCS dorms in the fall of 2013. “We had to flush it multiple times until we got it fixed. I thought: There is so much water being wasted,” says Mae, now a senior studying geography...
In 2006, Christine Cillian’s life changed forever. She wouldn’t know how severely for another two years. Christine, then 29, suffered a severe neurological attack that she had thought pointed to multiple sclerosis. Her arms fell limp. She couldn’t walk. Her body failed to function. “Everything turned upside down,” she says...
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Four days of holiday break and every campus cafeteria was closed. It was Thanksgiving 1985, and Tandean Rustandy had $5 to his name. He had nowhere to go for the holiday. CU Boulder’s dorms were still open, which meant he could relax over the long weekend,...
Sean Coetzee loved how media forensics—an emerging industry that uses technology to fight crime in the digital age—expanded the realm of what he did as a sound engineer. Yet in late 2013, one year away from completing his master’s at CU Denver in the Media Forensics program, Sean was diagnosed...