Military
- Admiral Stephen T. “Web” Koehler (Phys’86) shares his journey from to the high seas, highlighting the Navy’s enduring values of honor, courage and commitment.
- Janine Davidson is president of Metropolitan State University of Denver. Before transitioning to a higher education career, she was appointed by former President Barack Obama as the 32nd undersecretary of the U.S. Navy.
- In 1943, a military band drills in front of what is now known as Baker Hall.
- In June, Gary Forsberg and the a cappella chorus he’s a part of, Sound of the Rockies, represented the U.S. at France’s Brittany American and Omaha Beach American Cemeteries, to commemorate D-Day’s 75th anniversary.
- Tucker Hamilton and Aaron Frey are test pilots for the U.S. military’s most sophisticated fighter jets ever. Their journey together started in middle school.
- In the spring of 2004, army reservist and public affairs officer Steven J. Alvarez waited to be called up as the U.S. military stormed Baghdad and deposed Saddam Hussein.
- For Courtnie Paschall (Neuro, ElEngr’15), working on a drug trial for patients with schizophrenia while applying to 20 MD-PhD programs counts as light duty.
- As U.S. involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan winds down, veterans are filling classrooms across the nation, including at -Boulder.