Archive for November, 2007

Fagan’s restaurant successor open for business

Fagan’s restaurant, a favorite watering hole for DU students and neighbors since 1973, reopened Oct. 25 with a different name and an electric new look. Gone are the thick growth of plants and dark, rustic feel that had characterized the 34-year-old bar in its latter years. In its place are […]

BusinessWeek ranks Daniels College No. 6 in nation

The University of Denver Daniels College of Business earned the designation as one of the top graduate business schools. According to BusinessWeek’s 2007 rankings of part-time MBA programs released Nov. 1, Daniels was ranked No. 6 nationally and No. 1 regionally.  Daniels, the sole Colorado school named to the list, was nationally […]

DU staffer runs 100 mile races

DU staffer runs 100 mile races

Don’t judge Chase Squires until you walk a mile — no, scratch that — until you run 100 miles in his shoes.  Squires, a senior public affairs specialist in the University Communications department and a journalist for 19 years, came to DU in 2006 after leaving a job with The […]

Four Corners program a ‘life changing experience,’ students say

Four Corners program a ‘life changing experience,’ students say

After years of working in the trenches to provide services for those in need on her Southern Ute reservation in southern Colorado, Shelly Thompson was ready to take on a leadership role.  But she didn’t find it in on the political path she’d been following. Instead, she found it in […]

Coach, player spill women’s soccer success secrets

Coach, player spill women’s soccer success secrets

Yes, DU’s women’s soccer team has what you’d expect to field a winning squad: speed, stamina, agility — all of those and more are there. But those words come in second to another one: trust. “The key word is trust,” says Michael Thomas, the women’s assistant soccer coach. “They trust […]

Alumnus Edward Schafer nominated as U.S. agriculture secretary

Alumnus Edward Schafer nominated as U.S. agriculture secretary

President Bush has nominated DU alumnus Edward Schafer (MBA ’70) to become the next United States Secretary of Agriculture. Bush announced the nomination Oct. 31. If confirmed, Schafer, a former two-term Republican North Dakota governor from 1992–2000, will replace Mike Johanns, who resigned as agriculture secretary in September to launch […]

Perdew radiated thoughtfulness

Philip Perdew’s compassion and ability to connect with others made a teaching career a perfect fit. “If he radiated anything, it was thoughtfulness,” says former colleague and friend Bernard Spilka, a DU psychology professor emeritus. Perdew, who was a professor of education at DU for 28 years, died Sept. 19, […]

Land use plan defines campus boundaries

In 2002, urging from neighbors and the city of Denver led to the University’s agreeing to create its first land-use plan. It was a bold document, intended to publicly lay out DU’s ambitions over 20 years. Neighbors wanted to know if DU had expansion in mind, and the University wanted […]

Student engineers create easily accessible exercise machines

Student engineers create easily accessible exercise machines

Professional engineers solve problems in the real world. At the University of Denver, so do student engineers. Students working with DU engineering assistant professors Kim Newman and Irvin Jones cap their bachelor’s degree with a foray into that real world, tackling the real problems facing disabled people through engineered solutions. […]

Voters to decide on school board members

Denver voters living in the vicinity of DU will have the chance to choose two of the three school board members on the Nov. 6 mail-in ballot. Running for an at-large seat on the Denver School Board are Theresa Pena, John McBride and Rita Montero. Pena has been board president for the last […]