Chemistry Professor Don Stedman is on a scientific quest to clean up auto emissions.

Without challenges, life would be easy and boring. So says Austin Nelson, a DU senior business major who knows a thing or two about challenges. Nelson, 21, was born severely hearing impaired, and that has impacted his balance. Yet, he’s taken up a sport that hinges almost entirely on balance […]

Bill Johnson (BA mathematics ’64) was always interested in learning. He spent three hours every day being tutored by two aunts, both teachers, practicing school subjects and learning activities like cooking and gardening. He spent summers traveling the country, soaking up history about the parks and monuments he visited. But […]

Allison Jones has to win at everything. And she does.

When Bayonne (Smith) Holmes began her college search in the mid 1950s, she hoped to leave Denver to attend a historically black college. Her mother had encouraged Holmes and her seven siblings to get an education, but Holmes couldn’t afford to leave Denver. So, Holmes attended DU like her mother, […]

We asked Associate Professor Rod Buxton, Lecturer Jeremy Dehn and Assistant Professor Sheila Schroeder, film studies faculty in the Department of Mass Communications and Journalism Studies, for their winter-day flick picks. 1. The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982) It’s hysterical male paranoia turned on itself. 2. From Hell (Albert and Allen […]

One might not expect a 6-foot, 4-inch, 220-pound rugby player to spend hours in a lab developing cutting-edge genetic detection techniques. But senior molecular biology major and self-described computer geek Colin Erdman is no ordinary jock. Erdman has developed a computer program that could revolutionize forensic investigation. His program, which […]

Marilyn Griggs Riley (MA mass communications ’82) long thought Colorado had some important women in its history. Problem was, no one had ever written a full biography about any of them. Riley, who taught literature, composition and forensics in Denver for 20 years, wanted to examine the history of these […]

Luke Wiedel started fishing at the age of 2 and even has photos of himself in diapers holding a fishing pole. His love for fishing, fascination with the environment and curiosity about the Alaskan wilderness and the Pacific Ocean led him to start his own company, Fera Alaskan Seafood LLC, […]

Two determined neighborhood groups on DU’s doorstep have voted to directly challenge the city of Denver,  the Regional Transportation District  and one of the most prominent developers in the metro area. The dispute is over a sliver of land that nudges the platform on the west end of the new […]

Without challenges, life would be easy and boring. So says Austin Nelson, a DU senior business major who knows a thing or two about challenges. Nelson, 21, was born severely hearing impaired, and that has impacted his balance. Yet, he’s taken up a sport that hinges almost entirely on balance […]

Colorado architect Guion Cabell “Cab” Childress IV, whose celebrated body of work culminated with a number of landmark DU buildings, died Nov. 17 at Meadow’s Edge, his home in Castle Rock. Childress served as University architect from 1994–1999 and as architect emeritus until his death at age 74. He will […]

The University of Denver welcomed 10 Nobel peace laureates Sept. 15-17 for the 10th annual PeaceJam conference — the largest gathering of Nobel peace laureates ever on U.S. soil. At the conference, the laureates announced their Global Call to Action — a campaign to encourage youth to promote peace and […]