Investing can be a risky business, but portfolio manager Janna Sampson reduces uncertainty by selecting slow, steady, even “stodgy” stocks. Sampson, BA economics and political science ’79, studied industrial economics in the 1980s, learning to examine firms’ long-term economics to forecast how they might weather downturns. Now as director of […]

A life can best be defined by not what one says, but by what one does. For Emilie Bender, BA education ’67, her life’s work speaks volumes. Since January, Bender has worked as the outreach program director for obesity prevention and community nutrition, a new initiative at the Indiana State […]

For alumnus Yale Huffman, the most precious blessing of blindness is insight.

Jeannette (McGrath) Albersheim’s weekly 15-mile pilgrimage from her Silver Spring, Md., home to the Washington National Cathedral isn’t for worship service. Albersheim, BA political science ’39, volunteers at the cathedral—and has for 29 years. Attracting 700,000 visitors annually, the cathedral (officially the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul) […]

Meet Shannon Valerio: DU alumna, faculty member in University College’s American Indian Studies program, manager of DU’s computer help desk, director of mobile computing and the nation’s fastest woman on skates. Last year, at the age of 36, Valerio (BA anthropology ’92, MA anthropology ’95) won all seven national inline […]

“Picture yourself succeeding,” encouraged Jennifer Rector’s mom before childhood soccer tournaments, high school band performances and auditions. Those words clearly reverberated this spring as Rector took the stage for her junior trumpet recital at the Lamont School of Music. And they continue to propel her to excellence in every undertaking. […]