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Cal State LA recognized Krishna Foster (PhDChem) for her excellence in teaching and outstanding achievements during the university鈥檚 2021 convocation this fall. Krishna is a professor of chemistry in the university鈥檚 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, co-director of the Minority Opportunities in Research (MORE) programs and director of the National Institutes of Health-funded Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement (RISE) program at Cal State LA.聽

Entertainer and educator Neil McIntyre (Comm) lives on the Big Island of Hawaii and has brought his family-friendly hip-hop music to all six Hawaiian islands. This spring, he worked with children at Konawaena High School on a tribute song to honor the 75th birthday of Challenger astronaut Ellison Onizuka (Aero, MS鈥�69; HonDocSci鈥�03), a Konawaena graduate.聽

As chief technology officer and VP of products for an information management company in Norway, Jorgen Solberg (ElEngr) was constantly stuck in unproductive meetings. As a remedy, he founded Decisions, a meeting management software, which is now built into MicrosoftTeams and Office 365. The rapidly growing company has won several Microsoft App Awards. He lives in Oslo, Norway.聽

Steve Starzec (MFin) joined the Denver office of BNY Mellon Wealth Management as client strategist. He brings 30 years of experience to the role. He also serves on the Children鈥檚 Hospital legacy planning advisory council and volunteers as a youth football coach.

After leaving her job at Samsung in Seoul, Julia Yoo (Law) earned her law degree at CU and founded the Law Center for Women Prisoners, a nonprofit focused on assisting and advocating for incarcerated women. Three years later, she joined the law firm Iredale & Yoo in San Diego. She continues her work fighting police misconduct at the National Police Accountability Project, where she was the first female and the first person of color to be named president.聽

Dean of the School of Arts & Humanities at Sonoma State University Hollis Robbins (MEngl) has published her sixth book, Forms of Contention: Influence and the African American Sonnet Tradition. Hollis credits Professor Kelly Hurley, Professor Nan Goodman and Professor Katherine Eggert for helping her to hone the craft of studying literature while she was a student at CU.

Achieving a lifelong dream, Tom Metz III鈥檚 (Hum) first directed feature film, 30 Nights, is available for streaming or purchase on Amazon. The movie tells the quirky story of a couple attempting to save their marriage. Tom lives in Sherman Oaks, California.

CanonDesign named Tim Barr (Mktg) of Arvada, Colorado, the office practice leader for its Denver office. He said, 鈥淚鈥檓 excited about making those connections and helping organizations harness design to push our city and state forward.鈥�

Last December, Evan Papel (Mgmt) and his company Pocket Socks were featured on Good Morning America. Pocket Socks were invented for travel security and are accented with fun, fashionable designs. Evan lives in Carlsbad, California.聽

Darlene Kondo (MElEngr; Law鈥�07) was hired by Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, joining the intellectual property department in its Denver office. Darlene is also a board member of the Colorado Asian Pacific American Bar Association.聽

Christine Ahn聽(PolSci) is the founder and international聽coordinator for Women Cross DMZ, an organization that aims to end the Korean War, reunite families and ensure women鈥檚 leadership in peace building. In 2015, Christine helped organize a peace walk across the demilitarized zone that separates North and South Korea. She is also the co-founder of the Korea Policy Institute, a think tank that advises American politicians to foster diplomacy and friendship with both Koreas.

惭补迟迟丑别飞听贰补蝉濒别测聽(MCompSci; PhD鈥�00)聽was promoted to brigade聽general in the U.S. Army聽Reserve. His children聽pinned on his new rank聽during a Jan. 6, 2018,聽ceremony in Golden,聽Colo. He is now the cyber聽deputy command general for the 335th Signal聽Command (Theater) in聽Atlanta, Ga.

Colorado native Tim Barr (Mktg) joined McCarthy Building Companies, Inc.鈥檚 Denver office as director of business development.

In July, Andrew Hamilton (CompSci) set his third Nolan鈥檚 14 record 鈥� a run over the 14 summits over 14,000 feet in Colorado鈥檚 Sawatch Range, from Mt. Massive to Mt. Shavano 鈥� with a north-south time of 53 hours, 42 minutes. Andrew also holds a 2003 record for riding a bicycle from base to base of all of Colorado鈥檚 fourteeners. He and girlfriend Andrea Sansone met while hiking a fourteener.聽

In July, Horizon Elder Law & Estate Planning welcomed Jerald Marrs (Law) to its team. Jerry, a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, is committed to helping seniors, couples and families through the trying times associated with the aging process. He lives in San Ramon, Calif.

Of his latest book, Ultimate Glory, David Gessner (MEngl) writes: 鈥淚t is the story of the 15 years of my life I spent dedicated to playing Ultimate Frisbee braided together with a history of that strange sport. The last six of those years were spent playing for the Boulder team, and Colorado plays a key role in the book鈥� Wildness has always been a key theme for me and those were wild years. But this is also a book about nonconformity during the age of Reagan, about what it means to dedicate yourself to something that many others consider ridiculous. In this way it is a portrait of an artist as a young Ultimate player. And, more directly, it is also about my own simultaneous struggle to become a writer, another 鈥榬idiculous鈥� pursuit.鈥�

Corbin Marr (Hist) and Ben Herrmann (PolSci鈥�06) have gone into business together in the wastewater infrastructure sector. Their firm has locations in California and in the East. Projects include an inspection of pipelines in Boulder using cameras, sonar and laser equipment. The firm is also developing and implementing technology to inspect, clean and rehabilitate failing infrastructure.

Steve Soich (MMus) finished his first year as dean of students at Sobesky Academy, an alternative school in Lakewood, Colo., serving students with severe emotional disabilities. He is assistant principal for the 2016-2017 school year and is working on a degree to be an Educational Leadership Specialist (EdS) through the 乐播传媒 Denver.