Sarah with her husband and dog on a rocky point with snow-covered mountains and fall leaves in the background

Sarah Merry, Professional Academic Advisor, CMU Partnership Program

Nov. 6, 2023

Sarah advises first- and second-year students at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction who are pursuing degrees through the CU-CMU Engineering Partnership Program. She holds a master’s degree in rehabilitation and counselor education from the University of Iowa, as well as a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University...

Novella Bates

Novella Keeling, Teaching Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering Program

Oct. 3, 2023

Novella joined the Biomedical Engineering Program in June 2022. She completed her PhD in biomedical engineering at the Oregon Health & Science University, where she worked on developing novel antithrombotic therapies and engineering novel biomaterials for cardiovascular applications. Novella has a deep passion for mentoring the next generation of scientists...

Karen Crofton with an oversized tennis racket

Karen Crofton, Entrepreneur In Residence

Sept. 5, 2023

Karen Crofton is the entrepreneur in residence for the college. She teaches a venture capital course for the Leeds School of Business, as well as courses for the Engineering Management Program. She is the faculty advisor for the HackCU hackathon and the CatalyzeCU summer business accelerator program. Karen has been...

Dan K. Schwartz

Dan K. Schwartz, Interim Director for Environmental Engineering Program and ChBE Professor

Dan has been a faculty member at CU Boulder since 2001. He and his wife Maureen live in south Boulder with their dogs.

Kyle Freeman

Kyle Freeman, Administrative Assistant & Office Manager for Engineering Management Program

Kyle aspires to become an audiologist.

Karen Ganss

Karen Ganss, Assistant Director of Partnership Programs

Karen enjoys running, paddle boarding, gardening, crafting greeting cards, camping, listening to audiobooks/podcasts, and watching Raider football.

daniel b larremore

Daniel B. Larremore, Assistant Professor for Department of Computer Science & BioFrontiers Institute

Dan received the 2022 Alan T. Waterman Award, presented by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and has been recognized by Popular Science as one of their "Brilliant 10" for 2022. He grew up in Wheat Ridge, CO and now lives in Boulder with his wife Liana and their fluffy rescue mutt, King.

Brandon Scovronski

Brandon Scovronski, Senior Systems Administrator for the Integrated Teaching & Learning Program (ITLP)

Brandon's hobbies include hiking, cycling, and video gaming.

Lauren Cooper

Lauren Cooper, Teaching Associate Professor, Western Colorado University Partnership Program for Mechanical Engineering

Lauren's research interests include engineering education, student motivation, project-based learning, and outdoor industry engineering.

Becky Komarek

Rebecca (Becky) Komarek, Idea Forge Associate Director

Becky Komarek has been with the college for nine years.

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