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At the annual RE/MAX International Convention in Las Vegas,聽Duane Duggan聽(Bus鈥�78) received the Chairman鈥檚 Club Award for 2011. Duane was one of the featured speakers at the convention and has more than 33 years of experience as a successful real estate broker and investor. He lives in Boulder.

The Real Estate Negotiation Institute awarded聽Barbara Young Silverman聽(Art鈥�78) the Certified Negotiation Expert (CNE) designation. The designation is earned by real estate professionals after successfully completing formal negotiation training. She lives in Longmont, Colo.

尝补飞测别谤听Stephen Gulotta Jr.聽(Math鈥�78) was named 2012 Client Service All-Star by the law firm survey group BTI Consulting. He represents clients in a range of industries and serves as a managing member of the Mintz Levin law firm in New York and head of its corporate and securities section. He lives in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.

President Obama appointed聽Judith Kimble聽(PhDMCDBio鈥�78) as a member of the President鈥檚 Committee on the National Medal of Science. She is a biochemistry professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She discovered the first stem cell niche that controls stem cell maintenance. She has served on several boards and committees and has been president of the Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. Judith lives in Madison, Wis.

An in-depth profile of attorney Franklin D. Azar聽(PolSci鈥�79) ran in the January 2023 issue of 5280 magazine. Frank is known to many in the state of Colorado as 鈥淭he Strong Arm鈥� because of billboards and TV commercials promoting his practice, Franklin D. Azar and Associates, Colorado鈥檚 largest personal injury law firm.

The Colorado Law alumni board and dean Lolita Buckner Inniss named Bill Callison (尝补飞鈥�82), Beth Crane (尝补飞鈥�79), Jennifer Evans (IntlAf, PolSci鈥�91; Law鈥�98), Joe Neguse (Econ, PolSci鈥�05; Law鈥�09), Betty Nordwind (Law鈥�71) and Donald Quick (Econ鈥�82; Law鈥�86) as alumni award winners. The 42nd annual Colorado Law Alumni Awards Banquet is March 16 at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.

After the Marshall Fire, Priscilla Dann-Courtney (Engl鈥�79; MPsych鈥�86; PhD鈥�91), a writer and clinical psychologist, published an article in Boulder鈥檚 Daily Camera about how people can help their neighbors and how to cope with grief in difficult times. Priscilla has published many articles about mental health, parenting and exercise and resides in Boulder.

G. Brown (Jour) launched his book series On Record. Each of the three volumes includes images, interviews and insights in music for the years 1978, 1984 and 1991. The series is published by Colorado Music Experience, a nonprofit focusing on Colorado music history, of which G. is director.

Last January, Phil Barber (Law) a Boulder-based lawyer, was covered in the Boulder Weekly newspaper. Phil has been a lawyer for 40 years, representing communities focused on regulating oil and gas operations, including Boulder, Longmont and Broomfield鈥檚 attempts to limit fracking. Phil also has been taking on pro bono immigration cases, helping immigrants avoid deportation.

Debra Medina (Jour) retired after 37 years as a technical editor in Albuquerque and Carlsbad, New Mexico. She has also published her first聽novel, Coyote Nights.

Carolyn J. Stefanco (Hist) of Albany, New York, was elected to the Albany Medical Center board of directors. She said, 鈥淚 look forward to serving our region鈥檚 renowned academic medical center, helping to improve the quality of life for our community and building opportunities for the next generation.鈥澛�

In 2019, founder and CEO of Alteryx Dean Stoecker (IntBus) joined the exclusive billionaire鈥檚 club. Alteryx is a data analytics firm whose stock has risen 900 percent since going public in 2017. Dean lives in Irvine, California.聽

Former Buffs聽football player聽and assistant coach聽Brian Cabral (Rec)聽retired last year, but that聽doesn鈥檛 mean he鈥檚 fin-ished with the program.聽New head coach Mel聽Tucker considers Brian聽a mentor and character聽coach to the players聽and staff. To underscore聽his lifetime of service聽to the football program,聽Brian was elected to the聽CU Athletic Hall of Fame聽last November.

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

In May, Brian Cowan (Mktg), president and CEO of Cowan & Associates, a management consulting firm in Arlington, Va., rolled off of the CU Boulder Alumni Association鈥檚 board of advisors after eight years of service, including two as chair.

After graduating from CU, Linda Sasser (MPsych; PhD鈥�81) taught at two Illinois institutions of higher learning. She was an adjunct psychology professor at Wheaton College and then a fulltime education professor at Judson University. In 2013 she began her business, Brain and Memory Health. She is a national speaker on brain health and memory, teaches continuing education workshops for healthcare professionals and has authored a curriculum titled BE! Brain Enrichment, which is used in retirement communities and senior centers. Linda and her husband, Carey, live in Bloomingdale, Ill.

After 16 years as media relations manager for Ball Aerospace, Roz Brown (Mus) has returned to her radio roots as a news producer for Boulder鈥檚 KGNU and a member of the station鈥檚 board of directors. She proudly watched her youngest daughter, Grey Grimm (Art鈥�16), graduate from CU last year.