They already have diplomas and jobs, their graduations are past and final grades forgotten. But on Oct. 5-6, more than 120 University of Denver alumni went back to school. The alumni were on campus for the University’s inaugural Alumni Symposium Weekend, which was billed as a chance for alumni to […]
A cancer diagnosis can take an ordinary life and turn it upside down. In The Heroics of Falling Apart: One Couple’s Breast Cancer Journey (iUniverse, Inc., 2007) Dan Gordon (MLS ’99) and Judy Gordon describe falling apart—and how that helped them keep it together. In 2003, the Gordons were content […]
During a service-learning trip to Oaxaca, Mexico, when she was 18, Jacquelyn Eisenberg taught a family to brush their teeth for the first time. One of the children was a girl Jacquelyn’s age. That experience set Eisenberg on the path of social work. Since then, she’s been a mentor and […]
The issues of academic freedom and liberal bias can turn campuses into battlegrounds. But is it a battle worth fighting?
Lucas Shamala (PhD religious and theological studies ’06) may have grown up in Kenya, but he didn’t live in the jungle or meet lions while he played. Those are just a couple of myths about Africans and African life that Shamala tries to dispel among his students at Metro State […]
Law alumna Carrie Ann Lucas challenged a retail giant in a groundbreaking disabilities access case—and won.
Jim Gray is living a story straight out of Hollywood. Gray (BA communication and psychology ’03) is a staff writer for ABC’s new comedy/drama Pushing Daisies, which is about a kind young man with the ability to make dead things live again. After graduation Gray went to Los Angeles, where […]
When Ray Maestas sat at his father’s deathbed in 1996, his dad told him something he’d never forget. “He told me not to waste my life and to work to make a difference in the world,” Maestas says. And by all measures, Maestas (MSW ’98) has taken his father’s advice. […]
Philanthropy may not be the typical use for an MBA, but for Leslie Howard (MBA ’03), it’s working out just fine. She regularly taps what she learned from the degree to run the Gary and Leslie Howard Family Foundation, an organization she and her husband, now both retired from the […]
Robin Gabriels (PsyD ’97) loves children and challenges. So it makes sense that she embarked on a career path that combines both. In 1985 Gabriels founded and directed a children’s art therapy program at National Jewish Medical and Research Center, where she worked for 12 years. But after beginning her […]
Once they become homeless, young people are more likely to abuse substances, be the victims of physical abuse, contract HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, experience mental health problems and engage in survival sex. Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) youths are at even greater risk than their homeless heterosexual […]
Denver is working to end homelessness, and DU has signed on to help.
Although she grew up in an Italian-American family, Carolina “Carrie” Gengo Di Domenico (BA mass communications ’85) says she never learned Italian from her immigrant grandparents because they insisted only English be spoken at home. “I was very aware that I came from an Italian family, and I was also […]
You could sum up John Rodenberg’s (MBA ’71) relationship with tennis like this: 40-Love. He’s been with the sport nearly 40 years and still loves it. It all started back in the late ’60s when he took tennis in a physical education class while an undergraduate at Montana State University. […]
Dean Boosalis (BSBA ’68) says he was shocked to receive a lifetime achievement award from the Arc Thrift Stores of Colorado—especially because the award has only been given one other time in the last 40 years. “I am graciously blown away with it,” he says. Boosalis, who works full time […]