With more than 15 years of experience as a corporate recruiter, Eileen Goode (IntlAf)of Madison, Wisconsin, shifted her business focus to job search consulting. She works with clients to help them search for work and groom their résumés, LinkedIn profiles and interviewing skills. Previously, she was sales director with National Demographics and Lifestyle in Denver. With two partners she also established a technical staffing firm in Boulder. She writes she is “eager to help any CU Buffalo grads that are challenged in their job search.”

Posted Jun. 1, 2020

Karen Elting Brock (Engl) published Every Thread a Story: Traditional Chinese Artisans of Guizhou Province in April. Karen is the associate publisher of Thrums Books and has edited and helped produce 15 titles, bringing to life the stories of indigenous artisans from across the globe, honoring diverse cultures, history and craft traditions. This is the first book she has written for Thrums. She lives in Loveland, Colorado.

Posted Jun. 1, 2020

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. 

Posted Oct. 1, 2019

In 1995, Arvada, Colo., resident Keith Villa (MCDBio) created Blue Moon beer. After he retired from MillerCoors in 2018, Keith and his wife Jodi Villa (ArchEngr’86) co-founded Ceria Brewing, which specializes in cannabis-infused, nonalcoholic craft beer.The beer can be foundin 132 dispensaries statewide. 

Posted Sep. 30, 2019

In June, the Los Angeles Press Club awarded Santa Monica resident George Johnston (Jour) first place in the personality profile category for his story “Still Hovering: Ex-Door Gunner’s Vietnam Memories Never Far Away.” Published by the Pacific Citizen, the article follows the life of John Masaki, a Japanese American whose family lived in an internment camp during World WarII and who served in the Vietnam War.

Posted Sep. 30, 2019

Phillip Reid (Phys) writes in August 2018 he earned his PhD from George Washington University in engineering management and systems engineering. Since CU, he’s spent 31 years as a principal engineer at McDonnell Douglas Aerospace, now the Boeing Company. Currently, he is leading the system integration laboratory at Boeing, focusing on the development of a reusable rocket system. He resides in Orange, Calif.

Posted Nov. 30, 2018

Timothy S. Tomasik (Advert) was named a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers. President-elect of the Illinois chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates and a member of the International Society of Barristers, he now serves on its board of governors. Away from work, he has served as board president for the foundation Lawyers Lend-A-Hand to Youth, which provides grants to mentorship programs for Chicago’s underprivileged youth. He resides in Western Springs, Ill, with wife Jennifer and their two daughters, McKenzie and Maeve.

Posted Sep. 1, 2018

Rob Stites (MBaSci) presented a workshop titled “The Power of Peer Review” at the Capability Counts 2018 International Conference in Reston, Va., May 1. He published a book, which he started as a CU graduate student, titled Organized Proverbs: Contrasts in Wisdom from the Holy Bible. Rob works for CACI, a multinational professional services and information technology company, where he is a project manager for quality assurance.

Posted Sep. 1, 2018

Thirty-two years after receiving his commission from CU’s Army ROTC, Lou Carmona (OrgMgmt) will retire this summer as a colonel in the Army and Army National Guard. He deployed four times during his military career and served as an Army aviator in active flight status. He plans to continue working in aviation. He writes that he is currently the state Army aviation officer for the California Army National Guard and lives in Northern California, where the fires and floods have kept him busy. He and wife Tamyra have five children.

Posted Mar. 1, 2018

In November 2017, ¶Ů˛ą˛Ôľ±±đ±ôĚýµţ±ôłÜłľ˛őłŮ±đľ±˛Ô’s (EPOBio) seventh book, Ecotourism’s Promise and Peril: A Biological Evaluation, was published by Springer International Publishing. Dan is a professor and former department chair at UCLA. He spends his summers studying marmots near Crested Butte.

Posted Mar. 1, 2018

Nancy Daw Kane (Dance) was appointed editor-in-chief of National Dance Society Journal. She is lead author of the article “Comparisons of Personality Dispositions and Genetic Inferences in Groups of Performing Artists,” published in June in the International Journal of Music and Performing Arts.

Posted Dec. 1, 2017

Stephen Martin (MusEdu), former band teacher at Denver’s D’Evelyn High School, was inducted into the Colorado Bandmasters Association’s Hall of Fame. Steve and wife Roxanne have two daughters and two grandchildren.

Posted Dec. 1, 2017

Troon, a golf course management company in Scottsdale, Ariz., appointed Tim Schantz (PolSci) president. 

Posted Dec. 1, 2017

After 18 years in entertainment management, including work with Broadway tours and Cirque du Soleil, Kate Amberg (Ling) has started her own business. Following a long-time interest in family history, storytelling and genealogy, she started Creating Memories Now, which digitizes and stores family photographs and documents. Kate, who has lived in Las Vegas for 10 years, is a member of APPO, the Association of Professional Photo Organizers.

Posted Jun. 1, 2017

Beebe Bahrami (MCDBio) works as a fulltime freelance writer specializing in travel, food and wine, archaeology, spirituality and outdoor adventure pieces. In March Beebe gave a reading at the Boulder Book Store to promote her two new books, Café Oc: A Nomad’s Tales of Magic, Mystery and Finding Home in the Dordogne of Southwestern France and Café Neandertal: Excavating Our Past in One of Europe’s Most Ancient Places. She visits with family in Boulder several times a year.

Posted Jun. 1, 2017

Shari Miles-Cohen (Psych) co-edited the book Eliminating Inequities for Women with Disabilities: An Agenda for Health and Wellness. Shari is a senior director for the American Psychological Association in Washington, D.C.

Posted Dec. 1, 2016

An original artwork created by Bill Sawicki (ArchEngr) was included in the 40th anniversary group exhibition “A Building with a View: Experiments in Anarchitecture” at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans. The show ran August through October.

Posted Dec. 1, 2016

In December 2015, °Őłó´Çłľ˛ą˛őĚý˛Ń˛ął¦°ě (Fin) graduated from the University of North Texas with his PhD in American history. His dissertation focused on the Civil War. He works in IT management in Dallas and is pursuing teaching opportunities at the four-year college level.

Posted Jun. 1, 2016

Timothy Tomasik (Jour), a founder of Chicago law firm Tomasik Kotin Kasserman LLC, handles aviation, transportation, antitrust and medical negligence cases. In 2011, he was a member of the plaintiff’s executive committee in litigation that secured a $1.2-billion settlement on behalf of World Trade Center property damage victims. Timothy’s wife, Jennifer, is also a lawyer. They have two daughters and live in Western Springs, Ill.

Posted Dec. 1, 2015

Darren McKnight (PhDAero), technical director at Integrity Applications Inc. in Chantilly, Va., published Make Yourself Indispensable: A Guide for Career Success. The book, which examines workforce productivity and career strategy, was inspired by multi-disciplinary research he started at CU. The book is available on Amazon. Darren lives in Centreville, Va.

Posted Dec. 1, 2015

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