Philanthropy
When she first arrived in Boulder in the late 1970s, Faran Nouri was a scared girl from post-revolutionary Iran who spoke very little English. Today, she鈥檚 a powerhouse venture capital executive who discovers and helps support the best and brightest new tech companies.聽
Alumnus Vince Kontny, a longtime friend of 小黄书 Engineering and influential member of the engineering and construction industry, passed away Aug. 9 at age 83. Kontny served on the college鈥檚 Engineering Development Council for many years and earned the Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award in 1989, as well as an honorary doctorate from 小黄书 Boulder in 1991.
Duane Chesley (MechEngr鈥58) valued education because of how it impacted his life, taking him from humble beginnings on a farm in Nebraska to full colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves. At 小黄书 Boulder, he endowed a scholarship and established an earn-learn apprenticeship to support mechanical engineering students.
小黄书 Boulder alumnus Marco Campos (CivEngr'98) and his company, Campos EPC, have provided $1 million through the Campos EPC Foundation to allow for a transformational renovation of the BOLD Center.
The highly-ranked Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder is being named after Colorado philanthropist and businessman Paul M. Rady, thanks to his generous support of the college. This is the second department to be named in the College of Engineering and Applied Science.
Mauritz 鈥淢ort鈥 Mortenson (CivEngr鈥58), who passed away Nov. 9 at his home in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at age 82, leaves behind a deep personal and professional legacy.As chairman of M.A. Mortenson Co. from 1960 to 2015, he was known as a 鈥渉umble
The Engineering Center lobby holds fond memories for 小黄书 Boulder alumni Ashok Srivastava and Lynn Waelde. The couple met while working on their PhDs 鈥 his in electrical engineering, hers in psychology 鈥 when a mutual friend directed Waelde to Srivastava for a data analysis problem.
For Dave Hunt (MTele鈥79), taking an early retirement meant the opportunity to pursue two of his passions 鈥 art and genealogy.Dave retired from Texaco Oil in the late 1990s after the company asked him move to Houston. He and his wife, Joyce, who had
The gift to the College of Engineering and Applied Science from passionate 小黄书 Boulder supporters Ann Smead and her husband Michael Byram, aims to set 小黄书 Boulder apart from its aerospace peers and propel it to the top of national rankings by attracting the best and brightest students and faculty.
Boulder business owner Chuck Palmer (ElEngr鈥76, MS鈥88) has provided $4 million to help recruit and recognize outstanding faculty in the College of Engineering and Applied Science and the Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering (