Muc h A do A bout Graduate Educ atio n :
A n A fterno o n o f Presentation, Disc us sio n, and Celebration
University of Colorado at Boulder
Friday, April 23, 1 - 5:00 p.m., British & Irish Studies Room, Norlin Library (5th floor)
Event Sponsors: The Graduate School, United Government of Graduate Students, Career Services
Process of Leading Organizational
Change (Sage Publications, 2009)
and has contributed articles to
the journals Discourse Studies,
Journal of Business & Technical
Communication, and the Journal
of Organizational Change
Management.
Mary J. Kraus, Professor
Department of Geological
Sciences
University of Colorado at Boulder
303-492-7251
Mary.Kraus@Colorado.EDU
All’s Well That Ends Well:
Life After Graduate
School
Alumni Panel Discussion
Friday, April 23, 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Alumni Panel Bios
Donald L. Anderson
Sr. Organization Development
Consultant
Oracle Corporation
303-482-3145
donald.anderson@oracle.com
Donald L. Anderson has a PhD in
Communication from CU-Boulder.
He is an organization development
consultant with Oracle
Corporation, and was
formerly with both Sun
Microsystems and StorageTek. He
is also a faculty member in the
University College at the
University of Denver, where he
teaches graduate courses in
communication and organizational
development. He is the author of
Organization Development: The
Mary Kraus received her PhD from
the University of Colorado in 1983,
and she has been a faculty
member since her graduation.
Her path to CU was meandering.
After receiving her B.S. in biology
from Yale University in 1973, she
taught high school science and
math for two years. An
opportunity to participate in
geologic field work led her to
Wyoming in the summer of 1974.
Having found her passion –
sedimentary geology – she left
teaching to attend graduate
school. After four years of
undergraduate courses and then
graduate courses in geology at the
University of Wyoming, Mary
received her M.S. in Geology in
1979. Following a spouse, she
moved to CU-Boulder, where she
completed her PhD in Geology in
1983. She then joined the faculty
at CU-Boulder as the only woman
in the department.
Mary is currently a Professor in
the Department of Geological
Sciences and served as
department chair from 2003 to
2009. She is also a recent editor
of the Journal of Sedimentary
Research and served as President
of the Society of Sedimentary
Geology (SEPM) in 2007-08. She
received a BFA Outstanding
Service Award in 2009. Her
research focuses on using fossil
soils to interpret ancient
paleoclimates, and she works with
paleontologists to understand the
biotic impacts of climate change.
Her major research area continues
to be in Wyoming, where she
collaborates with geoscientists
and paleontologists, many of
whom she knew as undergraduate
students at Yale. She lives in
Boulder with her husband and
high-school age daughter. A
second daughter is a college
student.
Seth McGinnis
Associate Scientist III
ISSE / NCAR
303-497-8139
mcginnis@ucar.edu
Seth McGinnis is an Associate
Scientist at the National Center for
Atmospheric Research in IMAGe,
Institute for Mathematics Applied
to Geosciences. He has a PhD in
Geophysics from the University of
Colorado and bachelor's degrees
in Physics and Earth, Atmospheric,
and Planetary Sciences from MIT.
He works on a variety of projects
related to data usability and
availability, such as an educational
game about natural hazards and a
web-based service providing
regional climate change
Muc h A do A bout Graduate Educ atio n :
A n A fterno o n o f Presentation, Disc us sio n, and Celebration
University of Colorado at Boulder
Friday, April 23, 1 - 5:00 p.m., British & Irish Studies Room, Norlin Library (5th floor)
Event Sponsors: The Graduate School, United Government of Graduate Students, Career Services
probabilities. He is currently the
data and user community
manager for NARCCAP, the North
American Regional Climate
Change Assessment Program, a
multi-institution high-resolution
climate modeling effort for the
U.S., Canada, and northern
Mexico.
Patrick Reilly
Foreign Affairs Officer
U.S. Department of State
703-608-0841
reillykp@gmail.com
Patrick Reilly is a 2008 Presidential
Management Fellow (PMF) at the
U.S. Department of State. He is
currently serving as a Foreign
Affairs Officer in the Office of
Policy, Planning and Coordination
(WHA/PPC), the strategic planning
office for the Bureau of Western
Hemisphere Affairs. Patrick joined
the Department in October 2008
and has spent time in the Bureau
of Public Affairs (PA), European
and Eurasian Affairs (EUR), along
with Western Hemisphere Affairs
Bureau (WHA).
As a Public Affairs Officer he
worked on several high profile
events, including the first G-20
Summit held in Washington, DC
and the Summit of the Americas in
Trinidad and Tobago. Patrick
recently returned from the U.S.
Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden
where he served as a member of
the surge team helping to cover
the Swedish EU Presidency. While
there Patrick worked on EU
enlargement issues, with a focus
on Turkey and the Balkans. In his
current position, Patrick works on
long-term strategic planning issues
in Latin America and the
Caribbean.
Patrick received his B.A. from the
University of Virginia in
International Affairs, an M.A. in
International Affairs from the
University of Colorado at Boulder,
and an M.Sc. in Public Policy and
Administration from the London
School of Economics. He has
previously served as a Political
Assistant to the Colorado Senate
Majority Leader and as Senior
Parliamentary Assistant to the
First Minister of Scotland for the
British Parliament in
Westminster. He is the author of
Politics and Protest: How Political
Systems Influenced the American
and Northern Ireland Civil Rights
Movement published by VDM
Verlag Press in 2008.
David L. Snitman, PhD
COO & VP Business Development
Array BioPharma
303-381-6699
David.Snitman@arraybiopharma.
com
Dr. Snitman is a Co-Founder of
Array and has served as Chief
Operating Officer, Vice President
of Business Development, and a
member of the Board of Directors
since May 1998. Prior to forming
Array, Dr. Snitman held various
positions with Amgen Inc. since
1981, including Associate Director,
New Products and Technology and
Manager of Amgen's Boulder
research facility. Dr. Snitman
received a B.S. in chemistry from
Northeastern University and
obtained a PhD in the synthesis of
natural products from the
University of Colorado. He was an
NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at the
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
For details on Graduate
Student Appreciation Week and ways
to share your appreciation, see
http://www.colorado.edu/Graduate
School/appreciation.