Junior Rene Reisshauer won the individual national championship in the men’s 10K freestyle, one of three Pioneers to earn All-America honors in the first event of the 2007 NCAA Championships on March 7. The win marked Reisshauer’s third individual national championship and his first since sweeping both the classical and freestyle […]
Lynn Gangone will become dean of the DU Women’s College June 1, 2007, Provost Gregg Kvistad announced on Feb. 28. Gangone currently serves as a visiting assistant professor in the higher education administration program at George Washington University and is a senior consultant at Kaludis Consulting in Washington, D.C. “It is […]
The new U.S. ambassador to the African Union (AU) arrived at her post in Addis Ababa, Africa, last month. For Cindy Courville (MA ’80, PhD ’88), the journey involved more than traveling from Washington, D.C. Her job as the first U.S. envoy to the AU brings her full circle from her […]
To honor a program they say opened doors for their daughter, Joan and Mike Ruffatto have donated $5 million toward the construction of a building to house DU’s Learning Effectiveness Program (LEP) and College of Education. The building — named Katherine A. Ruffatto Hall after the donors’ daughter — will be constructed […]
The one word that surfaces consistently from those who know Theodor (Ted) Lichtmann is “gentleman.” LamontSchool of Music Director Joe Docksey calls Lichtmann, chair of the piano program at Lamont, “a deep and profound thinker” who was a “major underpinning of the Lamont School of Music.” Lichtmann will retire at […]
The No. 20 Pioneers men’s lacrosse team will host the seventh annual Face-off Classic this weekend. Three teams are coming to Denver: Villanova University, Air Force Academy and University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Denver (1-2, 0-0 GWLL) will face Villanova at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday and No. 19 UMBC […]
The University of Denver will make a change in the leadership of its men’s basketball program, and head coach Terry Carroll will not return to the position, Athletic Director Peg Bradley-Doppes said today. The announcement comes two days after the Pioneers lost 83-67 in the first round of the Sun Belt […]
Neighbors’ objections to building a 12-story high-rise next to the University of Denver light-rail station delayed the project on Feb. 28 but haven’t defused it. City Councilwoman Kathleen MacKenzie advanced three conditions she said were in response to neighbors’ discomfort with plans for a 210-unit rental tower over a detention […]
Watch, discuss and learn. Those three words (along with some warm buttered popcorn) sum up the idea behind an upcoming event by DU’s Humanities Institute dubbed “Crimes & Misdemeanors: Woody Allen on Faith, Love, and Human Frailty.” The event — part of the institute’s “salon” series — is on March […]
Two years ago we conducted a survey of our readers, and the results of that survey helped us create the redesigned magazine you’re reading now. The University of Denver Magazine‘s mission is to connect its readers — all 120,000 of them — to one another and to the University. We […]
Sandra “Sandee” Walling (MSW ’65) says that her ability to volunteer for so many organizations is a skill she learned as a single mother. “I could cook, talk on the phone and help my kids with homework,” says Walling, whose sons are now 35 and 36. One skill she says […]
Put a new name on your “A” list of national caliber athletes at the University of Denver. Maybe on the “AA ” list, too. It’s Annette Aksdal, the first woman tennis player at DU to earn her way into a national singles tournament — the 2006 Intercollegiate Tennis Association Indoor […]
For curator Dan Jacobs, working with DU’s extensive art collection is a bit like rummaging through Grandma’s attic. He’s discovered thousands of unique pieces tucked away throughout campus, from English engravings to an uncast sculpture relief. Jacobs, director of the Myhren Gallery, is working to catalog, preserve and coordinate the […]
Ingrid Tague was busy writing a book about aristocratic women in 18th century Britain when another book idea hit her. Why not write about 18th century European attitudes toward pets? Tague, associate professor and chair of the history department, had been studying an elderly woman’s letters to her son and […]
Q: We invest millions to give our students the opportunity to study abroad through the Cherrington Global Scholars program, which allows qualified students to study abroad at no additional cost. How does this considerable investment support the University’s mission and goals? A: Internationalization is one of the University’s 11 goals, […]