Financial trouble nearly destroyed the University in the 1980s, but just a decade later DU began the most dramatic physical transformation in its history. A new book, Built for Learning (University of Denver, 2008), traces DU’s architectural renaissance and tells the story of Chancellor Dan Ritchie, architect Cab Childress and […]
Harvey Miller (JD ’72) has never been much of a tea drinker. So what makes a longtime lawyer who doesn’t drink tea open a tea shop? The desire to brew a balanced life. “The stress of practicing law can be pretty overwhelming,” says Miller, who’s been practicing law for more […]
When Sandy Sardella got her business degree from DU, she expected to spend her work hours helping clients with their finances. A tax degree nearly two decades later further deepened her ties to the world of numbers. But life has a funny way of turning out. Back in 1989, Sardella […]
For her upcoming birthday, 94-year-old Marion Downs (MA audiology ’51) says she plans on going skydiving—again. Even as she approaches the century mark, Downs—who went skydiving for the first time to celebrate her 90th birthday—rarely allows her age to interfere with her desire for adventure. She admits, however, that in […]
In 2002, DU alumni Tom and Cydney Marsico presented the University of Denver with a $10 million gift to be spent over five years and directed toward the intensification of the undergraduate arts and sciences programs. Made with no strings and few provisos, that gift launched an experiment—dubbed the Marsico […]
Jackie Brown is 54. She has a part-time job. She has a mortgage. And tonight, she has homework: a case study paper on how to help a teenage girl who was physically abused by her father and who is now fighting depression and anxiety because she’s about to leave a […]
Successful recording producers are part producer, part composer and part musician. The most notable: Beatles recording producer Sir George Martin. A pianist and composer, he was one of few recording producers at the time with a background in music. It’s been said that the Beatles owed much of their success […]
Dressed in his ever-present crimson and gold apparel, Harold Beier (BA liberal arts ’47) is the very picture of Pioneers pride. Members of the campus community also know him as DU hockey’s biggest fan. Although he retired 21 years ago, Beier has spent his golden years hard at work. Despite the […]
Something’s going on under the water in the pool at the El Pomar Natatorium. Above the water, it all looks rather fun—competitive, yes—but definitely fun. Beneath the surface, though, is a lot of kicking, scratching, holding, poking and even pulling on swimsuits. Above the water a whistle pierces the humid […]
Legal counsel is a matter of life and death in at least one Texas county, according to Scott Phillips, an associate professor of sociology and criminology at the University of Denver. Phillips studied 504 death penalty cases in Harris County, Texas, which is home to Houston. He found that from […]