Class Notes - June 2023
A monthly listing of alumni accomplishments, milestones, and announcements. Catch up on your classmates and submit your own announcement!
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Professional Resources to Help Your Career Thrive
Last month, hundreds of Rams donned their cap and gown, walked across the stage at Moby Arena to receive their degrees, and stepped into a new world ready to begin pursuing their careers. It can be daunting to enter the professional world, but your Alumni Association is here with great resources to help your career thrive.
Keeping the Oldest Tradition Alive
The CSU Alumni Association takes its job of keeping the University's traditions strong seriously, and there is no better example of this than our oldest tradition - Comatose. With Homecoming and Family Weekend just around the corner, see what it takes to keep this tradition alive.
How to Avoid Thinking Traps that Sabotage Your Productivity and Well-being
It’s usually not the event or adversity itself that causes us to be stressed, upset and possibly feel like a fraud, it’s our interpretation of the event. It’s almost always about the stories we tell ourselves about what happened – our own unique interpretation.
Beating Imposter Syndrome
Imposter Syndrome is the psychological phenomenon in which you feel like you don’t deserve your accomplishments. You might feel like you don’t belong, don’t deserve your success, or are “out of place."
A Succession of Rams Bring Water to Tribal Nations, Part 1: Patrick Page
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation employs a lot of CSU graduates. Patrick Page (B.S., ’89) and Bart Deming (B.S., ’96), two civil engineers who have headed up the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project, share their passion for a big project few have heard of but is expected to benefit 250,000 people.
A Succession of Rams Bring Water to Tribal Nations, Part 2: Bart Deming
Bart Deming (B.S., ’96) jumped at the opportunity to work on the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project in 2012. Ten years later, he holds the top job, and with the help of numerous CSU alumni, is committed to successfully completing the $1.5 billion-plus water system by 2029.
Salary Negotiation for Women
Wage discrimination has been illegal since the Equal Pay Act passed in 1963, but it still continues. Before the pandemic, it was estimated that, if we kept going at the rate we were going, the wage gap would close in 2059.
Colorado State University partners in $20M AI institute focusing on climate-smart agriculture and forestry
Colorado State University researchers will play a key role in a new research institute that will leverage artificial intelligence to create more sustainable farms and forests.
Diversity House Renamed in Honor of Mary Ontiveros
Former Vice President of Diversity, Mary Ontiveros, was an alumna whose 45-year career was dedicated to ensuring CSU aspired to its land-grant mission of access and inclusion as boldly as possible.