Beyond the Classroom

  • Illustration by Bella
    Personal brands are about building reputation, so how do you build yours online? Parisa Tashakori, a CMCI advertising, public relations and media design instructor, guides students through the process.
  • Portrait of Angel Mollel, whose birth name is Anjela Yohana Koisasi Samanga Mollel, taken by Emerald Kristina Smith (@emeraldkphotography on Instagram) in 2021.
    Meet Denver's Most Remarkable Woman, CMCI student Angel Mollel. After moving from a male-dominated village in Tanzania to the U.S. in 2012, Mollel launched the foundation 1 Love to improve the livelihood of Maasai people and empower women and girls to pursue their dreams. Now a sophomore studying media production, she uses visual storytelling to share her mission and culture.
  • For her honor's thesis, media production major Taylor Passios turned her apartment into an immersive experience that people could visit.
    For her honor's thesis, media production major Taylor Passios turned her apartment into an immersive exhibit to illuminate the role of online information overload in COVID-related hypochondria.
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    CMCI recently celebrated the first cohort of students to complete Connections: CMCI Summer Academy, a week-long summer experience that gives high school students a preview of college life and introduces them to current students, staff and faculty.
  • Morgan Klaus Scheuerman, an Information Science PhD student, has been awarded the Microsoft Research Fellowship for 2021. He studies how and why facial recognition technologies get it wrong.  Credit: Casey Cass/CU 抖阴传媒在线
    From CU 抖阴传媒在线 Today: Information Science PhD student Morgan Klaus Scheuerman, 29, is among the most coveted young minds in the field of social computing. With stints at Google and Facebook already under his belt, and his facial analysis research earning international accolades, he was just awarded Microsoft鈥檚 prestigious 2021 Research Fellowship.
  • Merten
    Known by friends as Juju, Julia Merten lives and works by the motto, 鈥淓xpress your unapologetic self.鈥 This year, Merten earned CMCI鈥檚 William W. White Outstanding Graduate award, given to the student with the highest GPA in the college. After graduation, she will begin a position with a Detroit-based chocolate company, Bon Bon Bon.
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    What鈥檚 cooler than getting a good grade on an assignment? For Nicole Cattin (StratComm鈥20), it was a paid internship her senior year and the opportunity to see her work featured in stores.
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    When he and his co-founders launched 抖阴传媒在线 Media House, Jeremy Elder (CritMedia鈥20) was still a full-time student. Today, the young crew of CU graduates behind the boutique production company has created content for businesses from luxury expedition vehicles to high-end fashion, and they continue to elevate their game.
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    In the summer of 2017, Joel Holton was one of nearly 600 personnel fighting the Keystone Fire, from which he narrowly escaped. A few years later鈥撯揳s a senior studying information science鈥撯揾e teamed up with classmates to develop new navigation aids with the needs of wildland firefighters in mind.
  •  Rafaelo Infante (left) and Andre Gruber
    Short for fermentation, the small-scale bakery, Ferment, is a start-up enterprise that Andre Gruber, an engineering major, and Rafaelo Infante, a strategic communication major, launched in the spring while most of the state was shut down.
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