Carl Edwin Wieman (born March 26 1951) is a Nobel-prize winning American physicist at the University of British Columbia who (with Eric Allin Cornell), in 1995, produced the first true Bose-Einstein condensate. Wieman joined the University of British Columbia physics faculty on January 1st, 2007 and is heading a well-endowed science education program there; he retains a 20% appointment at University of Colorado, …

Herbert Kroemer (born August 25, 1928) is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara, received a Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 1952 from the University of Gottingen, Germany, with a dissertation on hot-electron effects in the then-new transistor, setting the stage for a career in research on the physics of semiconductor devices.

Thomas Robert Cech (December 8, 1947 in Chicago) is a Nobel Laureate in chemistry. He grew up in Iowa City, Iowa. In 1966, he entered Grinnell College where he obtained a B.A. in 1970. In 1975, Cech completed his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley and in the same year, he entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge where he engaged in postdoctoral research.

Ronald "Ron" Michael Sega (Ph.D.) (born December 4, 1952) is the current United States Under Secretary of the Air Force, a retired USAF Major General, and a former NASA astronaut. Sega was born in Cleveland, Ohio and is of Slovene origin. He is married to Ann Sega and they have two sons.

Eric Allin Cornell (born December 19, 1961) is a physicist who, along with Carl E. Wieman, was able to synthesize the first Bose-Einstein condensate in 1995. For their efforts, Cornell, Wieman, and Wolfgang Ketterle shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001. Cornell was born in Palo Alto, California and is a distinguished alumnus of both Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (1976-1979) and San Francisco's Lowell High School (1979-1980).

Petr Beckmann (1924-1993) was a physicist who defected to the United States from Czechoslovakia in 1963 and became a Professor of electrical engineering at the University of Colorado. He became well-known as an advocate of libertarianism as well as nuclear power. Beckmann was a prolific scientific author; he wrote several electrical engineering textbooks and non-technical works. By 1968 he had founded "Golem Press", which published most of his books, …

William Bright (born August 13, 1928, Oxnard, California; died October 15, 2006 (of a brain tumor), Louisville, Colorado) was an American linguist who specialized in Native American and South Asian languages and descriptive linguistics. Bright earned a bachelor's degree in linguistics in 1949 and a doctorate in the same field in 1955, both from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a professor of linguistics and anthropology at UCLA from 1959 to 1988.

Mark Emmert has, since 2004, been the 30th president of the University of Washington, and is a former chancellor of Louisiana State University. Emmert, who is a University of Washington alumnus, grew up in Fife, Washington, one of two brothers. He attended Fife High School. He afterwards married his high school sweetheart, DeLaine Smith, at Fife Presbyterian Church, and they have two children, Stephen and Jennifer.

Albert A. Bartlett is an emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. Professor Bartlett has lectured over 1,500 times on "Arithmetic, Population, and Energy". Bartlett is a modern-day Malthusian. Professor Bartlett often explains how sustainable growth is an oxymoron. His view is based on the fact that a modest percentage growth can equate to huge escalations over short periods of time.

Richard Delgado is the University Distinguished Professor of Law & Derrick Bell Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is an expert in civil rights law and critical race theory, a critic of law and literature movement. He has written and co-authored numerous articles and books, many with his wife Jean Stefancic, on law and society.

Kira Hall is associate professor of Linguistics and Anthropology, as well as director for the Program in Culture, Language and Social Practice (CLASP), at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Hall received her Ph.D. in Linguistics in 1995 from the University of California at Berkeley, and has held previous academic positions at Stanford, Yale, and Rutgers Universities.

Michael Tracey is an English born professor of journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder, who has gained notoriety for his controversial opinions about the unsolved murder of JonBenét Ramsey. Tracey has a history of identifying false leads in the murder investigation, and has been called "the Ward Churchill of the Journalism Department."

Sarvadaman D. Chowla (22 October 1907, London-10 December 1995, Laramie, Wyoming) was a prominent British-Indian-American mathematician, specializing in number theory. He was born in London, since his father, Gopal Chowla, a professor of mathematics in Lahore, was then studying in Cambridge. His family returned to India, where he received his masters degree in 1928 from the Government College in Lahore. In 1931 he received his doctorate from the University of Cambridge, …

John Vega is a digital artist and designer living in Boulder, Colorado. A 20-year veteran of commercial new media, Vega is an award-winning interactive art director and motion graphics designer. His career clients comprise Fortune 500 companies such as Apple Computer, IBM, Motorola and Sony. In the early 1990s, while working as director of multimedia for Boulder-based Leopard Communications, Vega produced multimedia for live events that traveled from Beijing, China, …

Clarence Irving Lewis (April 12, 1883 Stoneham, Massachusetts - February 3, 1964 Cambridge, Massachusetts), usually cited as C. I. Lewis, was an American academic philosopher and the founder of conceptual pragmatism. First a noted logician, he later branched into epistemology, and during the last 20 years of his life, he wrote much on ethics.

Edward Dorn was an American poet and teacher often associated with the Black Mountain poets.

Mary Ann Casey is a retired career Foreign Service Officer and U.S. Ambassador to Algeria (1991 - 1994) and Tunisia (1994-1997). Ambassador Casey graduated with a degree in international relations from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1970, and spent most of her overseas career in northern Africa. Her first assignment was as vice consul and political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Morocco; her most recent overseas position was U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia.

Padraic Jeremiah Kenney is an professor of history at Indiana University. He is the author of several books on East European (particularly Polish) history and politics; his area of specialization is social change and political change.

Larry W. Esposito (born April 15, 1951) is an American planetary astronomer and a Professor at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado. A 1973 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Esposito received his Ph.D in Astronomy from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. In 1985, he was awarded the H. C. Urey Prize by the American Astronomical Society. His current work involves planetary atmospheres and ring systems.

Carter Pann (Born February 21, 1972, La Grange, Illinois) is an American composer. He studied composition and piano at the Eastman School of Music and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree. Among his teachers include Samuel Adler, William Albright, Warren Benson, William Bolcom, David Liptak, Joseph Schwantner, and Bright Sheng, and piano with Barry Snyder. His works have been performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, …

David C. Rowe was an American psychology professor known for his work studying genetic and environmental influences on adolescent onset behaviors such as delinquency and smoking. Rowe earned his A.B. from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from University of Colorado at Boulder. In 1994 he was one of 52 signatories on "Mainstream Science on Intelligence," an editorial written by Linda Gottfredson and published in the "Wall Street Journal", …

Deborah S. Jin (born 1968) is a physicist with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST); Assistant Professor Adjoint, Department of Physics at the University of Colorado; a fellow of the JILA, a NIST joint laboratory with the University of Colorado. In 2003, Dr. Jin's team at JILA made the first fermionic condensate. She won the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship "genius grant" in 2003, …

Hobart Muir Smith (born Frederick William Stouffer, on September 26, 1912 in Stanwood, Iowa, USA) is an American herpetologist. He has been credited with describing several new species of North American reptile and amphibian, as well, he has been honored by having a species blackhead snake named after him, "Tantilla hobartsmithi".

Fred Anderson is an American historian of early North American history. Anderson received his B.A. from Colorado State University in 1971 and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1981. He has taught at Harvard and at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he is currently Professor of History. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Charles Warren Center of Harvard university, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Lucia Berlin was a major American short story writer of the late 20th Century. She was (born November 12, 1936) and died on her 68th birthday in 2004.

Laura A. Michaelis (born in Fort Eustis, Virginia) is an associate professor in the department of Linguistics and a faculty fellow in the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her research centers on the discourse-syntax interface in conversational English and the semantic interaction between words and grammatical constructions, with particular emphasis on the linguistic encoding of tense and aspect.

William Matthews (November 11, 1942 - November 12, 1997) was an American poet and essayist.

Asım Orhan Barut was a Turkish-American theoretical physicist. He was a professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His research interests was mainly the applications of group theoretic methods in physics. His books include "Theory of the Scattering Matrix", "Electrodynamics and Classical Theory of Particles and Fields" and "Representations of Noncompact Groups and Applications".

Dr. Thomas K. Landauer is a professor at the Department of Psychology of the University of Colorado. He was one of the pioneers of Latent semantic analysis, and in 1995 published a controversial analysis of the productivity paradox of information technology.

John Robert Taylor is a physics professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He received his B. A. in Mathematics at Cambridge University, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Taylor has written several college-level physics textbooks. His bestselling book is "An Introduction to Error Analysis", which has been translated into six languages. Taylor has been named a Presidential Teaching Scholar, …

Judith Ingolfsson is a violinist.