CU grad has early start on excellence

Natasha Goss graduated summa cum laude May 10 with a major in chemistry and a minor in mathematics from the University of Colorado-Boulder, and now she’s off to Harvard.

Not bad for a 16-year-old.

This fall, she’ll begin a doctorate program in atmospheric chemistry at Harvard University on a three-year National Science Foundation fellowship.

She arrived at CU-Boulder at age 13 after graduating from Silver Creek High School in Longmont and, she said, never looked back.

“I found that in high school a lot of people found my age to be something unusual, worthy of comment,” she said. “At CU, it was just about…