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CSU MOVES UP IN PEACE CORPS RANKINGSCSU once again has demonstrated its strong relationship with the Peace
Corps, moving up to 11th in the 2014 national rankings of large schools producing undergraduate Peace Corps volunteers. CSU was 13th in 2012 and 12th last year.
Since 1961, 1,577 CSU alumni have served in the Peace Corps, ranking 15th on the all-time list. More than 8,000 Peace Corps volunteers are working in 76 host countries on projects related to agriculture, education, community economic development, environment, health and youth development.
The University’s Peace Corps roots date to its earliest days, when CSU researchers Pauline Birky-Kreutzer and Maury Albertson, answering President John F. Kennedy’s famous call to service, in 1961 published one of the original feasibility studies that led to the creation of the organization.
‘A GREAT FACULTY MAKES A GREAT UNIVERSITY’Recently, two of CSU’s best and brightest faculty members were elected to prestigious academic
organizations. Veterinarian Dr. Edward Hoover is CSU’s sixth professor elected to the National Academy of Sciences and University Distinguished Professor Diana Wall was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, becoming the first woman from the University to be included in the prestigious organization of global thinkers.
So now the rest of the world knows what the campus has long recognized: CSU is home to an amazing faculty doing life-changing research and teaching.
CSU is home to nine national academy members. Barry Beaty, professor of microbiology, immunology, and pathology; Marshall Fixman, professor emeritus of chemistry; Albert Meyers, professor of chemistry (deceased); George Seidel Jr., professor emeritus of biomedical sciences; and A.R. “Ravi” Ravishankara, professor of chemistry and atmospheric science, join Hoover in the National Academy of Science.
Bruce Ellingwood, professor of engineering; Larry Roesner, professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering; and Thomas Vonder Haar, professor of atmospheric science, are members of the National Academy of Engineering.
GATES FOUNDATION FUNDS BREATH TEST FOR DIAGNOSING TUBERCULOSIS
Tuberculosis researchers at CSU have landed a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a diagnostic breath test with potential to revolutionize TB testing and to better control the globally devastating infectious disease. A breath test represents a critical advancement over existing diagnostics, which are invasive, slow, and sometimes inaccurate in diagnosing TB. The infectious disease causes an estimated 1.5 million deaths worldwide each year, making it one of the world’s leading causes of death.
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Krueger earned his degree through military-friendly programs at CSUBY KORTNY ROLSTON
Scott Krueger has advice for fellow military vet-erans who want to earn a college degree: consider Colorado State University.
The former Navy nuclear technician graduates this month with a degree in mechanical engineer-ing, something he said was made easier by CSU.
“It’s very, very veteran friendly,” Krueger said. Krueger began looking at colleges after spending
six years in the Navy working on aircraft carriers that generated their own power and desalinated ocean water using nuclear reactors.
The Illinois native knew he wanted to earn a degree in mechanical engineering so he could con-tinue working in the nuclear field. He narrowed his choices to CSU, University of Illinois and Univer-sity of California-Santa Barbara.
He visited Fort Collins and loved it. The fact that Colorado State offered him in-state tuition because he was a veteran cemented his decision.
It wasn’t until he started taking in the College of Engi-neering that he realized how well CSU treats veterans.
“From the day I walked into the student veteran
office (Adult Learner and Veteran Services), every-one has been helpful and supportive,” Krueger said. “That was my first group of friends here.”
That support has come in handy.During the second semester of his freshman year,
Krueger broke his back while learning to snow-board. He hit a jump and landed wrong. The injury kept him at home for a month.
He said the university worked with him and he finished nearly all of his classes that semester.
“There was a month where I couldn’t go to class but I was able to get through it because I had the support,” Krueger said.
As graduation nears, he finds himself relying on his network again, including two friends who got out of the military about the same time he did and also are graduating with mechanical engineering degrees.
He starts a job at a nuclear power plant in Illinois just a few days after he graduates. He and his wife are expecting their first baby in June.
“I am graduating, starting a job and having a new baby within the space of a month,” he said.
By the time 13 graduation ceremonies have been completed and tens of thousands of photos have been snapped, more than 4,200 Colorado State University students will have received their diplomas.
Each will have completed a unique journey to their goal. Some of the paths have been smooth, others filled with potholes. Some students graduated in four years or less. Others take 30 years or longer to arrive.
With the help of professors from every college, we are featuring the stories of nine members of the CSU Class of 2014. All of them faced unique challenges – hurdles that would have stopped most ordinary people in their tracks. They come from all walks of life, from places near and far – even a foreign country.
They all have something in common: No challenge was too great for them to overcome in their pursuit of a CSU education. They found their passion, stayed the course and – in many cases – overcame long odds to earn a diploma.
There are stories of young women who came from big
cities to study topics usually favored by students from rural areas; a veteran who used CSU’s many military-friendly services to earn a degree, land a job and start a family; an Honors Program student in biochemistry who dreams of being a circus performer; and a young woman from inner-city Denver who has learned the complicated nuances of supply chain management to earn a job with Amazon after graduation.
You’ll read the story of a man who started college in 1985, flunked out and rediscovered his academic calling some 30 years later; applaud the perseverance of a local woman who ignored a learning disability and a traumat-ic brain injury to redefine herself; learn how a kid from India ignored cultural pressure and followed his dream of becoming a fashion designer; and smile at the story of a woman who found a way to live with an autoimmune disorder to become a Ram student-athlete and candidate for medical school.
These are just a few of the stories that define the Class of 2014. Feel free to marvel right along with us.
Graduating CSU seniors complete unique journey at 2014 Commencement
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Dowling came West to help save the habitat for big catsBY JENNIFER DIMAS
As a child, Elizabeth Dowling grew up close to the Bronx Zoo and visited frequently, relishing the op-portunity to see the big cats. The Bronx Zoo became the catalyst for her future - aid-ing in the effort to conserve habitat for large mammals and carnivores, especially big cats.
When it came time to choose where she would attend college, Dowling wanted two things: the best college for her major of Fish, Conservation and Wildlife Biology; and be located in a place she had never visited. CSU’s Warner College of Natural Resourc-es was the perfect fit.
Having never been to the West, Dowling had a bit of culture shock when she arrived in Fort Collins. But it didn’t take long for her to take full advantage of her new surroundings and soon she was backpacking, rock climbing, snowboarding, fly fishing, camp-ing and even hiking a 14er.
Since moving to CSU, she’s had the op-portunity to work with fish, bighorn sheep, black bears, mountain lions and wolves through a variety of projects and organiza-tions. She’s helped with a study for the past two summers to determine management strategies for bear populations in Southern Colorado by trapping and radio collaring adult females as well as conducting non-invasive genetic work.
As an undergraduate, she’s accomplished
great things through her research but also through her community service. One of her proudest moments at CSU involved donating enough money through Alpha Phi Omega, a community service group, to create a water system in an Ethiopian town through the Peace Corps.
Dowling says that all of her accomplish-ments during her undergraduate career could not have been possible without her mother’s and father’s support. She is truly grateful that they trusted her to venture to the West, into the world of natural re-sources, helping her dreams come true.
Thompson juggles more than her education and a careerBY KORTNY ROLSTON
Some people might threaten to run away and join the circus, but Colora-do State University student Kelsey Thompson actually intends to do it.
Thompson graduates this month with a degree in biochemistry from CSU’s College of Natural Sciences. But before the Albuquerque, N.M. native enters a master’s degree program in pharmacy, she is pursuing her other passion – the circus.
Thompson, who also juggles, plans to get in shape and enroll in a professional school that trains aerialists to perform several feet above the ground with both fabric and hoops.
“It’s something I really want to explore before I go to pharmacy school and settle into a career in phar-macy,” she said. “I want to pursue it while I can.”
Thompson has long juggled her love of art and science.
Her parents are both research scientists and she grew up painting alongside her grandfather. She worked in a laboratory throughout high school but also per-formed with a stage combat group.
For a while, she double majored in biology and art at CSU but found it difficult to do both. She took a biochemistry course and loved it and narrowed her focus.
“I can pursue art without an art degree but I can’t be a biochemist without a degree,” she said.
That doesn’t mean Thompson has ignored her artistic side.
Throughout her years at CSU, she has
continued to paint and perform with Cir-cus Club of Northern Colorado, which is based at the University.
For a while, she drove to an aerial school in Denver a few times a week where she learned to roll and twist herself in several feet of fabric. Between the drive and her classes, she stopped training as an aerial-ist and focused on her juggling act (she passes pins with a partner.)
But as graduation nears, Thompson is excited to train again as an aerialist. She has spent much of the semester writing her thesis, a requirement for all students in the Honors Program.
She and her boyfriend want to form their own circus act with some friends and per-form at Renaissance fairs and other venues.
“It’s just exhilarating,” Thompson said.
Lobo finds himself in fashionBY TONY PHIFER
In his parents’ dream, Joel Lobo was go-ing to be a doctor – perhaps a scientist.
In his dream, Lobo was going to follow his heart and become a fashion designer.
In his native Indian culture, Lobo said, children follow their parents’ dream – no questions asked. And so Lobo entered the pre-med program when he left his new home in Albuquerque to attend CSU.
“I was overweight, studious and nerdy in high school, and I just listened to everything my parents said,” Lobo said. “But as early as elementary school I was doodling in notebooks, drawing dresses and other women’s clothing. I once gave a sketch of a design to a grade school teacher and told her to keep it because one day I would be famous.”
Halfway through his sophomore year at CSU, Lobo made the decision to pursue his dream. He wandered over to the Department of Design and Merchandizing, part of the College of Health and Human Sciences, hoping to find some guidance.
“I was still a master’s student, and Joel was pacing in the hallway, hoping some-
one would look at his drawings,” said Carol Engel-Enright, now an assistant professor and Lobo’s mentor. “I could tell right away that he had talent.”
When Lobo told his parents of his deci-sion, they were not happy, pulling their financial support. He received phone calls from relatives in India telling him he was being foolish and ungrateful.
Lobo returned to Colorado, emancipated himself from his parents and began work-ing for the first time. He ate peanut butter sandwiches for every meal, and learned what it’s like to be poor. Eighteen months later he returned to CSU – 65 pounds lighter and full of confidence.
When Lobo’s collection of women’s evening wear drew rave reviews at this spring’s annual fashion show, he knew he had made the right decision. His parents were in attendance, marveling at their son’s skills.
“My goal is to be a fashion legend; I want to leave a footprint in the cement of this industry,” he said. “And I’ll always have CSU to thank for helping me realize my dream.”
Courage, determination drive Beckley to achieve her goalsBY TONY PHIFER
If Rachel Beckley were to write her own life story, the resulting prose would be – by her own admission – a mess.
Diagnosed at an early age as Twice Exceptional, a learning disorder in highly intelligent people, Beckley has the spelling skills of a third-grader.
“I’m really good at some things and re-ally bad at others,” she said, shaking her head at the irony of the condition that impacts her daily. “And spelling … that’s the worst!”
If you managed to negotiate the mine-field of typos in her story, however, you would find a tale of remarkable courage, strength, determination and perseverance that has carried her become an Honors graduate with a degree in French.
“Rachel is truly an inspiring young woman and survivor,” said Paola Malpezzi Price, chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures in the College of Liberal Arts. “I feel very humble when I consider that most of us don’t have to face half of the physical and mental obstacles Rachel had and still has to overcome. I am grateful and honored to have played a small role in her academic success.”
As if her learning disability weren’t enough of a challenge, the Poudre High
School graduate’s life took a dramatic turn in August 2010 prior to her junior year at CSU. A devastating car accident in Fort Collins left her in a coma for nearly a month, and the resulting traumatic brain injury and stroke erased pretty much everything that defined her life.
“I was told I would never walk again, and might never talk again,” she said. “I had to relearn how to do everything – even how to brush my teeth.”
And unlike most TBI victims, Beckley had to relearn two languages, starting from scratch in both English and French. To this day, she occasionally mixes the languages in the same sentence, and she sometimes loses her train of thought.
“I’m not sure you ever completely heal from a TBI,” she said.
Still, she is not bitter. Her experience with Twice Exceptional taught her how to overcome challenges, and that fight-ing spirit has helped her reclaim her life. She hopes to move to France and teach English, then come back and teach French in America.
“If anything, this is where my life needed to be,” she said of the accident that nearly claimed her life. “I needed to have this experience in order to become the person I am – and hopefully the teacher I will be.”
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Extraordinary volunteers earn honorary Liberal Arts degrees
David and Paula Edwards long ago embraced Colorado State University’s land-grant mission – and then took it to an entirely different level.
David (BS Agricultural Sciences ’72) and Paula are tireless volunteers and gener-ous philanthropists who have been helping make Northern Colorado a better place for more than 40 years. That’s why
it was easy to select them to receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the College of Liberal Arts at the spring 2014 graduation ceremony.
The Edwards have served on dozens of boards, per-formed thousands of volunteer hours and donated their treasure to support numerous community causes, includ-ing the Community Foundation of Northern Colorado, UniverCity Connections, Discovery Science Museum, Fort Collins Area Chamber of Commerce and many others.
At CSU, they were part of the Campaign Leadership Council, the hand-picked team that helped spearhead the University’s successful $500 million capital campaign completed in 2013. They were co-chairs of the College of Liberal Arts Development Council, and in 2009 received the Charles A. Lory Public Service Award at the annual Distinguished Alumni Awards ceremony.
The Edwards have supported campus arts programs, athletics, scholarships and faculty development. They are, in every way, CSU Rams.
College of Business awards Kent honorary doctorate
The College of Business will bestow an honorary doctorate on Muhtar Kent, Chairman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company, in rec-ognition of his role in the relation-ship between the company and the University that provides support for students and academic opportunities around the world.
Kent joined The Coca-Cola Com-pany in Atlanta in 1978 and has held a variety of marketing and opera-
tions leadership roles throughout his career in markets across Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
In 2005, Kent was appointed President of Coca-Cola International, responsible for overseeing all operations outside of North America. In 2006, he assumed the role of President and Chief Operating Officer and in 2008 was elevated to President and CEO. He was named Chairman of the Board of Directors in 2009.
Kent holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Econom-ics from the University of Hull in England and a Master of Science degree in Administrative Sciences from Cass Business School, City University London.
Kent is also chairman of the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum, co-chair of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s CEO Council on Health and Innovation, a fellow of the Foreign Policy Association, and a member of the Business Roundtable.
Repp receives honorary degree for support of student-veterans
Colorado State University will award the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causis, to alumnus Dennis Repp, a military veteran who has been a major sup-porter of CSU’s New Start for Student Veterans program.
Repp, a 1960 graduate, attended CSU as an agricultural business ma-jor. He made his mark as a student leader on campus and following graduation, he served in the Army
before starting a successful business career in banking, investing and technology.
Repp’s contributions to Colorado State have been trans-formational. His gifts to CSU’s New Start for Student-Veterans Program have profoundly boosted CSU’s ability to support students who have been injured while serving in the military.
As a veteran himself, Repp has a personal connection to and interest in helping those returning home from war. He has donated more than $2.5 million to support New Start, which focuses on helping student-veterans to succeed in earning a degree by overcoming chal-lenges with disability and injury. The New Start program, housed in the Center for Community Partnerships in the Department of Occupational Therapy, College of Health and Human Sciences, is also benefiting CSU’s OT students, who are learning to work with veterans and the challenges of specific disabilities.
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SPRING 2014 COMMENCEMENT SCHEDULEFriday, May 16, 2014
Professional Veterinary Medicine (PVM) 8:00 a.m. Moby Arena
Air Force ROTC Commissioning 8:00 a.m. Lory Student Center, North Ballroom
Army ROTC Commissioning 9:30 a.m. Lory Student Center, Theatre
College of Engineering 11:30 a.m. Moby Arena
Graduate School 3:00 p.m. Moby Arena
College of Health and Human Sciences 7:30 p.m. Moby Arena
Saturday, May 17, 2014
College of Business 8:00 a.m. Moby Arena
Warner College of Natural Resources 8:00 a.m. Student Recreation Center, Main Gym
College of Agricultural Sciences 12:00 p.m. Moby Arena
College of Veterinary Medicine 12:30 p.m. Student Recreation Center, and Biomedical Sciences Main Gym
College of Natural Sciences 3:30 p.m. Moby Arena
College of Liberal Arts I: 5:00 p.m. Student Recreation Center, Art and Music, Theatre, and Dance Main Gym
College of Liberal Arts II: 7:30 p.m. Moby Arena All other departments
California dad, 46, completes his college degree with CSU OnlinePlusBY TONY PHIFER
It took Brad DeMoss nearly 30 years to achieve his goal of earning a college degree. But that long, challenging journey defined him and completely changed his self-image.
“If someone had told me that I would be graduating college with a (projected) 3.972 GPA at the age of 46, I would have completely dismissed them as crazy, yet here I am feeling younger than ever with a future as bright as that of any graduating senior,” said DeMoss, who lives in Sylmar, Calif., but will graduate from the College of Liberal Arts through CSU OnlinePlus.
DeMoss started college in 1985 at UCLA, but soon found himself drowning in credit card debt. Seduced by pitches touting “interest-free payments” and other inducements, DeMoss acquired lots of nice things – and some huge bills.
Soon he was forced to work more hours to pay his ever-mounting debt. His schoolwork suffered, and he eventually was expelled less than a year from graduation. He worked for the next 20-plus years before his wife discovered the degree programs available via OnlinePlus.
DeMoss was nervous about returning to academics but successfully adjusted to working full-time, taking classes and helping his wife raise their two young sons. And he quickly rediscovered his love of academics.
“With OnlinePlus, the classes are almost like a global village because we’re all in different locations and we all bring different perspectives to discussions,” he said. “There was always something new I had never considered.”
Now, 28 years after his college journey began, he will finally get his diploma. He’s never visited Fort Collins, but can’t wait to see the home of his soon-to-be alma mater.
“It’s very sobering to me that I’ve been able to complete this journey,” he said. “It’s almost surreal because I started this process so long ago, but I can’t wait to see Fort Collins and experience life as a CSU Ram.”
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Steep road of life experience leads Weed to medical schoolBY JEFF DODGE
For Stephanie Weed, going to medical school next fall might seem like a walk in the park, considering the steep road she’s already traveled.
In her freshman year of high school, Weed developed alopecia areata, an autoimmune disease that caused her to lose her hair. She began wearing a wig, except when she played water polo and basketball (the wig fell off once during a basketball game, which she says was a bit traumatic).
Weed chose to earn her degree in biomedical sciences in the CSU College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in part so she could join the water polo team, which landed her a scholar-ship. But the University discontinued the sport last spring, just before her senior year. Now, she calls the decision a blessing in disguise, since it freed up more time for the research that she thinks helped her gain admission into the Creighton Univer-sity School of Medicine.
Oh, and in addition to her research on projects like testing tuberculosis patients’ reactions to a particular drug and being in the Honors Program, she holds down two jobs. Weed is assistant manager at a Mama Roni’s restaurant in Fort Collins, and she provides home health care to a quadriple-gic CSU student.
It’s the latter job – and her own experi-ence as an alopecia patient – that has only reinforced her lifelong desire to go into the field of medicine. (She was hooked after getting a chemistry set and microscope as a young child.) Weed says caring for John Morris has taught her that the comfort of the patient is paramount. She still recalls the relief she felt when the cause of her baldness was diagnosed, and doctors’ sus-picions that she was pulling out her own hair were dismissed.
“Stephanie has been a top-notch stu-dent in a rigorous science major who was balancing many competing priorities,” says her advisor, Kelly Swetich. “And she always had a great attitude despite her obstacles!”
Howard seizes opportunities to connect with resources, peopleBY KATE JERACKI
Angelina Howard gets things done.Between graduating from Denver’s East
High and earning her degree in Business Administration in finance, the first-gener-ation student has:• Earned a certificate in supply chain management;• Served as Vice President of the Supply Chain Management Student Club;• Has been both a student mentor and mentee;• Helped faculty promote the supply chain management concentration to be offered in the College of Business this fall, and provided feedback on course design;• Put together the student business-case competition team that won the presti-gious Ptak Prize, competing against teams around the world – and brought Carol Ptak to CSU to present the prize.• Starts a job at Amazon, one of the world’s best supply-chain management companies, in June.
All this while working two jobs to help pay for her education and traveling to Au-rora regularly to help her single mother, Angela, through cancer surgery.
In high school, Howard wanted to be
a lawyer, but thought she’d study history first. Family friends explained a business degree might be a better first step. She was accepted to nine of the 10 colleges she applied to, but chose CSU because of the reputation of the College of Business.
Howard discovered supply chain man-agement while working in the Career Management Center and seeing what em-ployers wanted. Changing her academic focus was direct.
“I knew (Professor) Brian Fugate needed a student assistant, so I asked him if I could be it,” she says.
Her background allowed Howard to re-ceive received support through the College’s mentoring program as a freshman, where she seized every opportunity to connect with people and resources on campus. As a sophomore, she was selected from more than 70 applicants to serve as a mentor.
“Actually coming to college was scary, because I really didn’t know what to ex-pect,” she recalls. “I felt my mentor truly cared about what I was going through, so it was important for me to pass that along to others. Every generation needs to be better, to keep growing and learn more, and I hope what I do rubs off.”
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Arthur wants to talk for the animals with policy-makersBY JENNIFER DIMAS
Animal welfare is what drives Kelly Arthur.
Arthur, who is graduat-ing with a bachelor’s degree in Animal Science from the College of Agricultural Sciences, hopes to incorpo-rate more scientific research into policy and legislative decisions relating to ani-mals. Her career aspiration is to become a public policy veterinarian.
Growing up in Los Angeles with no livestock background, she has used her time at CSU to diversify her interests from small to large animals. As an undergraduate, she has worked in the Livestock Medicine and Surgery division of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital, where she’s assisted veterinarians with various livestock species. She’s also gained hands-on experience in feedlots over the past three years during her work at the Animal Nutrition Laboratory.
“Kelly is an articulate, logical and driven young scientist,” said Terry Engle, profes-sor of Animal Sciences. “She is committed to animals and their welfare. We are quite proud to have her as a graduate of our department.”
Her work also has earned her interna-tional honors. This past year, she compet-ed in the Intercollegiate Animal Welfare Judging competition where her team won first place in the undergraduate division. Her love of animals has led to her work with Best Friends Animal Society, one of the nation’s largest no-kill animal sactuar-ies. She has volunteered at the sanctuary in Utah and her work with Best Friends
inspired her Honors Program thesis, in which she completed a grant proposal on feral cat nutritional requirements.
Along with helping animals, one of Arthur’s main passions is service. In the spring of 2012, Arthur traveled to seven countries with Up With People, a community service and performing arts group. She completed 200 hours of volunteer work and performed 40 international song and dance shows. Through mentorship and volunteer work, she exudes her passion for community involvement.
Arthur will attend CSU’s Veterinary School in the fall. After completing her education, she hopes to work writing policies and legislation for animal welfare and possibly be an expert witness in animal law cases.
