Students and faculty at the University of Denver are attempting to use the power of video games to spread social consciousness by means of “humane gaming.” A group of undergraduate and graduate students from the digital media, computer science and electronic media arts design departments have been working on Squeezed, […]
The largest-ever U.S. gathering of Nobel Peace Prize winners will convene at DU Sept. 15–17. Ten laureates—including the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu—will be on DU’s campus to talk with 3,000 teenagers from 32 countries about how the teens can instill peace in their own communities. On Sept. 15, […]
Couples looking for ways to strengthen their relationships will have a new place to go at DU beginning Sept 26. A clinic for couples is opening its doors in DU’s psychology department to offer counseling services. “We’ll provide state-of-the-art, research-based couples therapy to Denver-area couples to help them improve communication […]
Whether looking for the weekend’s big party or a long-lost friend, Web sites like Facebook.com and MySpace.com offer online worlds of infinite social connections. But DU’s message to students is: beware. Student orientation Director Lisa Matye Edwards says she wants students to understand that employers, stalkers, police and professors have […]
Center for Judaic Studies (CJS) director and history associate professor David Shneer had plans to go to Israel this summer. Those plans, made before Hezbollah kidnapped two Israeli soldiers, didn’t change when bombs and missiles started flying over the border between Israel and Lebanon. Shneer went to Israel in July […]
It’s happened to countless of women since the beginning of time. Children fight in wars that their moms don’t agree with. Political activist and songwriter Laurie “Fly Janov” Williams, BA ’74, is counted among them. “My son rebelled against his hippie mother and joined the Marines,” Williams says. Her son, […]
This fall, DU’s Victoria H. Myhren Gallery will showcase some of the diverse ways that artists manipulate ideas of reality in its Negotiating Reality: Recent Works from the Logan Collection exhibit. Organized by Art and Art History students, the exhibit will feature 19 world-class works created since 2000. Gallery Director […]
For the month of July, sophomore journalism studies major Ian Tyson lived in a large warehouse lined with bunk beds. He bathed in an outdoor box shower where he had to wash himself in three minutes or less. Some days he would wake up at 5:30 a.m. and help feed […]
Adolfo Perez Esquivel, a former architect from Buenos Aires, is one of 10 Nobel Peace Prize laureates who will take part in PeaceJam’s 10th anniversary celebration at the University of Denver Sept. 15–17. Esquivel was awarded the peace prize in 1980 for his nonviolent approach to fighting human-rights violations in […]
Two DU alumni are at the top of the law world after presidential appointments in the American and Denver bar associations. Karen Mathis was appointed president of the American Bar Association (ABA) in August, and Paul Chan was named president of the Denver Bar Association in July. Mathis, (BA ’72)—a […]
Growing up in the Twin Cities region of Minnesota, an area scattered with rivers and lakes, Curt Shneider witnessed the environmental damage caused by pollution. That insight inspired him to prepare for a career in the environmental field, and beginning with his sophomore year, he came to DU to do […]
Jeralyn Merritt’s entire career has focused on defending the rights of the criminally accused. Whether it’s writing multiple times a day on her popular blog, Talkleft.com, serving on Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh’s defense team or appearing as a legal analyst on MSNBC and Fox News, Merritt has always had […]
Jack Suzuki (BA liberal arts ’47) is making a colorful splash at the University of Colorado at Denver’s Auraria Library. More than 40 of his kaleidoscopic abstract paintings hang on the library walls, and he’s constantly adding to the display. The 92-year-old artist first picked up a paintbrush 15 years […]
Growing up in the Twin Cities region of Minnesota, an area scattered with rivers and lakes, Curt Shneider witnessed the environmental damage caused by pollution. That insight inspired him to prepare for a career in the environmental field, and beginning with his sophomore year, he came to DU to do […]
Once again, DU finds itself on a national sports stage — this time in men’s lacrosse. In May the team wrapped up its best season ever, which culminated in a first-round showing in the NCAA tournament — the Pioneers’ first-ever national bid. “The players were hungry to take the next […]