Notable Faculty and Staff
- Waleed Abdalati, scientist, Chief Scientist of NASA
- Bernard Amadei, civil engineer, founder of Engineers Without Borders
- Mark Amerika, American artist and author
- Fred Anderson, historian, author of The Crucible of War
- Albert Allen Bartlett, physicist, popular writer on exponential growth in populations, and energy resources
- Petr Beckmann, physicist, engineer
- Storm Bull, Professor Emeritus at the College of Music and Head of the Division of Piano.
- Adolf Busemann, pioneering aerospace engineer
- Stan Brakhage, filmmaker
- Sarvadaman Chowla, mathematician
- Ward Churchill, former ethnic studies professor noted for inflammatory statements dealing with 9/11, dismissed from CU-Boulder 2007
- Robert T. Craig, Communication theorists and author of Communication Theory as a Field.
- Larry Esposito, discoverer of Saturn’s fourth ring
- George Gamow, physicist and cosmologist
- John Hauser, Unabomber victim
- Deborah S. Jin, physicist
- Clayton Heathcock, Professor of Chemistry, and Dean of the College of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley
- Linda Hogan, Native American poet, storyteller, academic, playwright, novelist, environmentalist and writer of short stories
- Daniel Kellogg, composer
- Patricia Nelson Limerick, historian and occasional New York Times columnist
- Morris Massey, Professor of Marketing, marketing innovator, and Fortune 500 consultant
- Margaret Murnane, physicist, pioneer of femto-second laser research; MacArthur fellow
- Carter Pann, composer
- Hobart Muir Smith, most published herpetologist of all time; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Joseph R. Tanner, former astronaut
- John Taylor, physicist
- Michael Tracey, famed author
- Stanislaw Ulam, mathematician
- James F. Williams, Dean of Libraries
- Muriel Sibell Wolle, American artist and author
- Betty Woodman, American ceramic artist
- George Woodman, ceramicist, painter, and photographer
- Melanie Yazzie, American sculptor, painter, and printmaker
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