The cornerstone of the Memorial Chapel was laid in 1910, but it wasn’t until December 1917 that the building was dedicated in honor of those who died in World War I. Only one of the chapel’s original four towers remains; the rest of the building was destroyed by fire in […]
Don’t judge Chase Squires until you walk a mile—no, scratch that—until you run 100 miles in his shoes. Squires, a DU senior public affairs specialist and University of Denver Magazine writer, is what you call an ultradistance runner—the folks who use a marathon to get warmed up and often run […]
Q: What does it mean to the University to have such a successful athletics program? A: I would be the first one to say that athletics is not the most important thing about a university at any level. However, it’s the most visible. I would look at the national exposure […]
EMBA could stand for Executives Making Bold Achievements. That’s exactly what two students in DU’s Daniels College of Business Executive MBA (EMBA) program are doing: boldly sharing their business acumen with women in India who desperately need the help. The story starts in 1996 when Katie Kramer visited India and […]
After 19 months of construction and anticipation, Nagel Hall opened Aug. 21. The 150,000-square-foot, five-story, 356-bed facility provides much-needed space and modernizes the University’s housing stock. Nagel Hall’s first three floors house sophomores in four-person suites with two bedrooms and a shared bathroom. The fourth and fifth floors have apartment […]
Connections What pleasure I receive from receiving and reading the University of Denver Magazine. I received my MBA in 1961; so much has happened to the University in the past 47 years. It is great to be kept current on the growth of the University and all of the accomplishments […]
On Parkway Drive in the Englewood, Colo., neighborhood of Cherry Hills, a piece of history is for sale. Years ago, however, the technology which makes this item distinct was of little interest or value to anyone other than its owner. That’s because the heating system employed in the house on […]
Clark Secrest, writing in Colorado Heritage magazine in 1992, pointed out that the short-lived town of South Denver had its own railway and its own university, but almost no saloons. The original boundaries of South Denver extended from Colorado Boulevard to the east, Pecos Street to the west, Yale Avenue […]
Ryan Greenawalt (BSBA ’02) is senior vice president at Jefferies & Co., a publicly traded bond firm on Wall Street, where he works in the Fixed Income Group serving the needs of public entities. He also is a founding member of DU’s Young Alumni Endowed Scholarship Fund and one of […]
Jeffrey Howard has been named executive director of alumni relations at the University of Denver. He joined DU in the fall from the U.S. Olympic Committee, where he worked as the director of education and outreach programs in corporate communications. Howard returns to DU after nearly a decade; he previously […]
Q: I’d like to work abroad. How do I go about finding a job in another country? A: If you’ve set your sights upon finding a job overseas, there are some things to consider before you send a résumé to lands unknown: • Employment rates are not the same in […]
Renee Pepys Lowe, founder, president and CEO of CoCaLo Inc., has been in the juvenile retail business since she was a kid. Her mother was a pioneer in the concept of coordinated baby bedding in the early ’70s and included Pepys Lowe and her three siblings in the entrepreneurial endeavors. […]
Working for the University of Denver Magazine, I’m constantly reminded of how remarkable our DU family is. Of course, the students, faculty and staff on campus are tremendous, but it’s the alumni who most amaze me. In this job, I meet or hear from alumni nearly every day. They send […]
“He will be dead by the time he’s 18. Take him home and love him.” With those words, a doctor threw Lori (Watkins) Ware (MBA ’89) into the fight of her life: The fight for her son’s life. Just weeks after Hurricane Katrina struck the Louisiana coast, Lori’s 3-year-old son, […]
This Colorado license plate was procured for Chancellor Chester Alter in 1963 as a Christmas present to celebrate the University’s impending 100th anniversary in 1964. Gov. John Love (BA ’39, LLB ’41) authorized the Department of Motor Vehicles to change Alter’s vehicle registration slip to “DU-1964” after the department had […]