CU-Prime is a growing, evolving organization with lots of amazing people working hard to make it happen! If you would like to sit in on a meeting, feel free to email cuprime@colorado.edu with a request to be added to the organization listhost.
Current Team
These are people you might see if you attend our monthly meetings! Next meeting is Wednesday, August 19th @11am in G135A.
Ellie Suit
Ellie Suit (she/her) is a second-year PhD student studying ultracold Erbium collisions in John Bohn’s group in JILA. She is originally from Connecticut and did her Bachelor’s in Vermont. In her free time, she enjoys cycling, hiking, skiing, playing tennis, and cooking. She works primarily on the mentorship program for CU Prime.
Aidan Jones
Aidan Jones (he/him) is a third-year PhD student building a neutral atom optical clock with integrated photonics over at NIST. He likes to visit both the CUBoulder Library and Boulder Public Library. He hosts the monthly meetings for the different subcommittees.
Ben Bobell
Ben Bobell (he/him) is a third-year PhD student studying the intersection of quantum information and quantum dynamics. Outside of physics, he enjoys classical vocal music and film. Ben hosts CU Prime's coffee and cookie hour.
Head of Talks
We are currently looking for somebody to take over the talks team! Fill out this form or email cuprime@colorado.edu to get involved.
Emily Griffith
Emily Griffith (she/her) is an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Emily has been part of the Access Network for six years, getting her start with Polaris at Ohio State. She is passionate about teaching, mentorship, and making STEM a place where all students feel comfortable and excited to learn. Emily acts as a liaison to the Access Network. In her spare time, Emily enjoys training her pet parrot and puppy.
The Old Guard
We are the instructors for the Fall 2023 iteration of CU-Prime's class, PHYS 1400! To get in touch, email us at phys1400@colorado.edu.
Sara Moore
Sara (she/her) worked especially on the class team.
Wes Johnson
Wes (he/him) worked especially on the talks team.
Maeve Andersen
Maeve (she/her) worked especially on the class team.
Diment Yuan
Diment (Jingchen) Yuan (he/him) worked especially on the talks team.
Tate McDonald
Tate (he/him) worked on the class team as a learning assistant.
Pablo Aramburu Sanchez
Pablo (he/him) worked especially on the mentorship team.
Tyler McMaken
Tyler (he/him) worked especially on the talks team.
We also want to acknowledge all the contributions from past CU-Prime organizers—these are the people who have made CU-Prime possible and have helped it to flourish from its founding to the present!
Adam Ellzey
Akihiro Yamaguchi
Anna Estes
Ben Braun
Ben Chapman
Ben Pollard
Carrie Weidner
Charlie Bevis
Dan Reinholz
Devin Rourke
Dimitri Dounas-Frazer
Ethan Kern
Frank Jensen
Greg Hoth
Iona Binnie
Jacob Beckey
Jasmine Brewer
Joel Corbo
John Bartolotta
Jorge Nicolás (Nico) Hernández Charpak
Katie McCormick
Katie Rainey
Kerrie Dochen Ellzey
Luke Adams
Mathis Habich
Michelle Miller
Miranda Thompson
Morgan Aire
Nick Kurth
Peter Madigan
Rajarshi Basak
Ran (Brynn) Reiff
Rob Niederriter
Sarah Stevenson
Sven Dönges
Thuy-An Julie Huynh
Yuval Sani
& all other organizers not included on this list!
For those curious who the official leaders of the organization were (starting in 2023),
2026 - Aidan Jones
2025 - Aidan Jones
2024 - Sara Moore
2023 - Sara Moore