CASA - Key Persons


Abi Matthews

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant

Aimee Schechter

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant
I work with Prof. Julie Comerford to identify galaxy mergers in the CANDELS survey using a convolutional neural network trained on mock images from the IllustrisTNG simulation. I'm also investigating the connection between merger classification, AGN activity, and star formation rate of these galaxies.

Aisha Jackson

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director of Tech Applications
  • Associate Director of the Academic Technology Applications Program, Office of Information Technology
  • Member of Committee

Akirah J. Bradley

Job Titles:
  • Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
  • Member of Committee

Alexander Brown

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Associate

Allie Anderson

Job Titles:
  • CU Boulder Researchers

Amy Westfeldt

Job Titles:
  • Senior Director of Development
  • Member of Committee

Ann Ruether

Job Titles:
  • Academic Technology Professional

Ann Schmiesing

Job Titles:
  • Executive Sponsor, Executive Vice Provost for Academic Resource Management, Professor of German
  • Member of Committee
  • Office of the Provost

Anna Estes

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant

Armando Pares

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean, Continuing Education
  • Continuing Education / Ex Officio
  • Member of Committee

Ben Kirshner

Job Titles:
  • Faculty Director Learning Sciences & Human Development CU Engage, School of Education
  • Member of Committee

Benjamin Oppenheimer

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Bert Covert

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee
  • Professor, Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences

Brandon Hilliard

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant

Brian Alden

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant

Brian Groves

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director, Auxiliary Services - CU Book Store
  • Member of Committee

Bronson Hilliard

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice Chancellor for Strategic Academic Communications
  • Member of Committee

Buff Techs Appointments


Carol A. Wessman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman, Environmental Studies, College of Arts and Sciences
  • Member of Committee
  • Program Director, Professor, Environmental Studies, College of Arts and Sciences

Carole Newlands

Job Titles:
  • Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies, College of Arts and Sciences
  • Member of Committee

Caroline Sinkinson

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor / Head of Teaching and Learning, University Libraries
  • Member of Committee

Catherine Milburn

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee
  • Senior Instructor and Teaching Professor, Leeds School of Business

Catherine Shea

Job Titles:
  • Chief of Staff, Office of the Chancellor
The Art in Public Space Committee is convening in Spring 2020 to begin its work. If you have feedback, questions or nominations for committee members, please share them with us.

Catriona Murray

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant

Chris Braider

Job Titles:
  • Chairman and Professor, French and Italian / College of Arts & Sciences

Chris Koehler

Job Titles:
  • Associate Faculty Director, Space Minor / College of Engineering and Applied Science
  • Member of Committee

Conor Canaday

Job Titles:
  • Academic Technology Professional

Cora Randall

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee
  • Professor

Cori Shaff

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director of Career Advising and Outreach
  • Member of Committee

Crystal Lay

Job Titles:
  • Director of Residence Life
  • Member of Committee

CU Boulder Today

Job Titles:
  • March 19, 2018: Provost Seeks Nominations for Open Educational Resources Advisory Committee
  • May 11, 2018: Provost Names Open Educational Resources Advisory Committee

Daniel L. Gette

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Executive Director, Housing & Dining Services
  • Member of Committee

Daniel Moorer

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Daryl Maeda

Job Titles:
  • Ethnic Studies and Associate Dean for Student Success, College of Arts and Sciences
  • Member of Committee

David Meens

Job Titles:
  • Continuing Education

Dirk Grunwald

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Director of Applied Computer Science, Computer Science / College of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Donald R. Lichtenstein

Job Titles:
  • Marketing, Leeds School of Business
  • Member of Committee

Donna Caccamise

Job Titles:
  • Assoc. Dir. / Assoc. Research Professor

Donna Mejia

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Dance, Theatre and Dance
  • Member of Committee

Dylan West

Job Titles:
  • Academic Advisor, Program in Environmental Design
  • Member of Committee

Dyonne Bergeron

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice Chancellor for Inclusion and Student Achievement
  • Member of Committee

Elizabeth Garfield

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee
  • Professional Assistant, Office of Undergraduate Education

Emily CoBabe-Ammann

Job Titles:
  • Director of Strategic Projects

Emma Rinzler

Job Titles:
  • Student / Leeds School of Business

Eric Stade

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee
  • Sewall Academic Program Director and Co - Chair of RAP Council

Erica Ellingson

Job Titles:
  • Emeritus Associate Professor Fellow

Erica June Nelson

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Fellow

Erika Randall

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor / Department Chair, Theatre and Dance, College of Arts and Sciences
  • Member of Committee

Frances Draper

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Geoffrey Rubinstein

Job Titles:
  • Director of Independent Learning, Continuing Education
  • Director of Online Learning / Division of Continuing Education
  • Member of Committee

Girish Duvvuri

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant

Graham Harper

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Associate

Greg Jaehnig

Job Titles:
  • PostDoctoral Associate

Harsha Gangadharbatla

Job Titles:
  • Founding Department Chair Advertising, Public Relations and Media Design, CMCI
  • Member of Committee

Hayley Roberts

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant

Heidi Mallon

Job Titles:
  • Assessment Coordinator, Academic Affairs
  • Member of Committee

Howard B. Waltz

Job Titles:
  • Music Library

IT Guy


J Michael Shull

Job Titles:
  • Emeritus Professor Fellow

Jack O Burns

Job Titles:
  • Professor Fellow

Jacob Henry

Job Titles:
  • Academic Technology Professional and Training & Consulting Lead

James Green

Job Titles:
  • Emeritus Professor Fellow

Jason Shelton

Job Titles:
  • Advising Supervisor, Physical Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences
  • Member of Committee

Jay Chittidi

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant

Jeff Cox

Job Titles:
  • Professor of English and Humanities

Jennie Paine

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant

Jeremy Darling

Job Titles:
  • Professor Director Fellow

Jeremy Smith

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Musicology / College of Music

Jess Morris

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee
  • Professional Academic Advisor, College of Arts and Sciences

Jimmy Negus

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant

JoAnn Vandel

Job Titles:
  • Grants Administrator

Joanna Perido

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant

John Bally

Job Titles:
  • Emeritus Professor Fellow

John Stocke

Job Titles:
  • Emeritus Professor Fellow

Johnny Dorigo Jones

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant

Jon Leslie

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Communications Officer, Strategic Relations and Communications

Joseph Dupris

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor at CU Boulder
Joseph Dupris, a visiting assistant professor at CU Boulder, is a linguist and "maqlaqsyals" user who helped integrate the Modoc language into the short film This Is Their Land. It was recently screened on campus, and a 150th anniversary remembrance is set to be held in Tulelake, California.

Joseph Simon

Job Titles:
  • NSF Fellow

Joshua Hibbard

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant

Julie Comerford

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Fellow

Justin Desautels-Stein

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Law Jason Shelton, Advising Supervisor - Physical Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences
  • Member of Committee

Justus Gibson

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant

Karen Gebhardt

Job Titles:
  • Director of Online Economics Programs, Economics / College of Arts & Sciences

Karen Ramirez

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee
  • Teaching Professor, CU Dialogues Program Director, CU Engage, School of Education, MASP Assistant Director

Karl Hanzel

Job Titles:
  • IT Guy

Katherine Eggert

Job Titles:
  • Office of the Provost

Katherine Erwin

Job Titles:
  • Human Resources

Kei Tanaka

Job Titles:
  • PostDoctoral Associate

Keith Molenaar

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee
  • Stanton Lewis Professor of Construction Engineering and Management / Associate Dean for Research Construction Engineering Management, College of Engineering and Applied Science

Kelli Stevens

Job Titles:
  • Director of Undergraduate Advising, Leeds School of Business
  • Member of Committee

Kelly Fox - COO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operating Officer

Kevin France

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Fellow

Kevin L. MacLennan

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice Chancellor of Enrollment Management, Co - Chair
  • Chairman of Committee

Kiana Burton

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant

Kristi Wold-McCormick

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee
  • University Registrar

Leslie Reynolds

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Committee
  • Interim Dean of University Libraries, Chair

Lily Board

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean, Academic Advising & Student Success, College of Arts and Sciences
  • Member of Committee

Lonni Pearce

Job Titles:
  • Senior Instructor / Assoc. Director for First - Year Writing, Program for Writing and Rhetoric / College of Arts & Sciences

Louise Vale

Job Titles:
  • Interim Associate Vice Chancellor of Integrity, Safety and Compliance
  • Member of Committee

Maciej Walczak

Job Titles:
  • CU Boulder Associate Professor of Chemistry, Won a $2 Million NIH Grant to Investigate How Certain Sugars Modify a Brain Protein Associated With Neurodegeneration. Read
Maciej Walczak, CU Boulder associate professor of chemistry, won a $2 million NIH grant to investigate how certain sugars modify a brain protein associated with neurodegeneration.

Madeline Sembrat

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice Chancellor, Budget and Fiscal Planning
  • Member of Committee

Margaret Haefner Berg

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Committee
  • Chairman, Music Education / Associate Professor of Music Education, College of Music

Maria Spoon

Job Titles:
  • Campus Advising Specialist, University Exploration and Advising Center
  • Member of Committee

Mary Kraus

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Committee
  • Undergraduate Education
  • Vice Provost and Associate Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education, Chair

Meredith MacGregor

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director

Michael Drozd

Job Titles:
  • Student IT Assistant

Michael Theodore

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Composition, Music
  • Member of Committee

Mike Klymkowsky

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee
  • Professor, College of Arts and Sciences

Mike Womack

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Committee
  • Co - Chair, Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing, Art & Art History

Myron P. Gutmann

Job Titles:
  • Director, Institute of Behavioral Sciences
  • Member of Committee

Nate Bindel

Job Titles:
  • Continuing Education

Neil Bassett

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant

Nils Halverson

Job Titles:
  • Professor Fellow

Olivia Wittenberg

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee
  • Student Representative, CUSG Tri - Exec

Orrie Gartner - COO

Job Titles:
  • Director of Operations

Pat Wachiraphan

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant

Patrick Greaney

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee
  • Professor of German and Humanities, Chair of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures

Patrick Tally

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean of Academic and Curricular Affairs, College of Arts and Sciences
  • Member of Committee

Paul Chinowsky

Job Titles:
  • Director of ENVD ( Effective July 1 )
  • Member of Committee

Paul S. Sutter

Job Titles:
  • History
  • Member of Committee

Pramila Patel

Job Titles:
  • ICT Accessibility Program Manager, Office of Information Technology
  • Member of Committee

Quentin McAndrew

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Rebecca Kallemeyn

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager of Academic Technology Initiatives, Consulting and Training

Rich Content

Job Titles:
  • Editor Accessibility Checklist

Richelle Reilly

Job Titles:
  • Campus Landscape Architect

Robert Barrows

Job Titles:
  • PostDoctoral Associate

Robert Erickson

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Interim Chair of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering / College of Engineering and Applied Science

Robert J. Ferry

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Committee
  • Professor of History and Boulder Faculty Assembly Chair

Robert McDonald

Job Titles:
  • Dean of Libraries and Senior Vice Provost for Online Education
  • Working Group Lead / Dean of University Libraries

Roy Parker

Job Titles:
  • Leinwand Endowed Chair of Biochemistry, Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Arts & Sciences
  • Member of Committee

Russell Moore

Job Titles:
  • Provost
Provost Russell Moore announced the formation of the academic reorganization committee on April 17, 2018, following a request from the Academic Futures Committee that any contemplated reorganization of the College of Arts and Sciences be undertaken not as a function of the Academic Futures campus visioning process, but rather as a responsibility jointly carried out by the Office of the Provost and the College of Arts and Sciences Strategic Planning Committee. Provost Russell Moore formed the First-Year Experience Transition Committee on Sept. 20, 2018. The committee is convened by Mary Kraus, vice provost for Undergraduate Education, and co-chaired by Kevin McLennan, assistant vice chancellor of Enrollment Management. The provost charged the committee with providing the campus, by Jan. 11, 2019, an assessment of the financial, communications and personnel challenges and opportunities that would result from adoption of the Foundations of Excellence and RAP Task Force recommendations, as well as making recommendations for a plan that would facilitate the smoothest transition from our current state to the future state envisioned in the Foundations of Excellence and RAP Task Force reports, in support of the evolving Academic Futures vision.

Ruth Moore

Job Titles:
  • Continuing Education

Sandra Firmin

Job Titles:
  • CU Art Museum Director
  • Member of Committee

Sandy Jones

Job Titles:
  • Dean of Students
  • Member of Committee

Sara Thompson

Job Titles:
  • Continuing Education
  • Dean and Vice Provost, Continuing Education / Ex Officio

Sarah Stevenson

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant

Scott Adler

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Scott Battle

Job Titles:
  • Continuing Education

Stacy Forsyth

Job Titles:
  • Continuing Education

Stephen J. Vassallo

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice Chancellor for Integrated Planning and Decision Support
  • Member of Committee

Stephen Jones

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean of Student Success, College of Media, Communication and Information
  • Member of Committee

Steve Skinner

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Associate

Susan Szpyrka

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Suzanne Classen

Job Titles:
  • Continuing Education

Sydney Nobles

Job Titles:
  • Student Admin Assistant

Tamara Sumner

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee
  • Professor / Director

Ted Rockwell

Job Titles:
  • Continuing Education

Ted Snow

Job Titles:
  • Emeritus Professor Fellow

Terra McKinnish

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee
  • Professor, Economics, College of Arts & Sciences

Thomas W. Zeiler

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee
  • Professor of History, International Affairs and Director of the Program on International Affairs Former Director of the Global Studies RAP

Timothy Brown

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Tom Ayres

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Associate

Tracy Jennings

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Ward Howard

Job Titles:
  • PostDoctoral Associate

Webster Cash

Job Titles:
  • Professor Fellow

Will Waalkes

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant

Yumi Roth

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Committee
  • Co - Chair, Associate Professor of Sculpture, Art & Art History

Zach Berta-Thompson

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Fellow