The Tudors No one Richard III Romeo and Juliet Lancaster and York Villain Anne Hathaway Renaissance Romeo and Juliet Sonnets

Attention DU community! If approached by cherubic fifth-graders inviting you to test your knowledge of William Shakespeare against theirs, say for lunch money or your backpack or your hockey tickets, do not accept the challenge. Within minutes, your self-confidence will be bubbling in a witch’s cauldron of toil and trouble. […]

Benny Althaus might be known as an ace on the tennis court for DU, but he’s banking on a new career as a financial analyst in New York. In August, Althaus will begin his professional career at Macquarie Capital Inc., a full-service investment bank. He graduates on June 6. “I […]

The Thames Wool Julius Caesar Hamlet The Earl of Richmond That he will die the next day Susanna Iambic Pentameter Troupes The Importance of Being Earnest

Here is a sample of the questions middle school students were asked in the 2009 DPS Shakespeare Festival Challenge Bowl. The questions cover five categories: Elizabethan England; Famous Quotes; Richard III (this year’s featured play); Shakespeare’s Biography; Shakespeare’s Plays and Theaters. What is the name of the important river that runs through […]

DU’s Environmental Law Clinic filed suit June 2, 2009, against the United States government, seeking to stop proposed logging on southern Colorado lands that feed the headwaters of the Rio Grande. The river is a major source of drinking water for millions of people in Colorado, New Mexico and Texas, […]

While Tim Brauhn’s memories of Sunday school have become a bit hazy over the years, the 25-year-old graduate student from Franklin Grove, Ill., clearly remembers the Biblical parables that emphasized love-thy-neighbor morals. For the past year Brauhn — who graduates June 5 with a master’s degree in international studies — […]

Brianna Borin loves food. Not just eating it, but serving it. In a way that makes dining as important as cuisine. Her first job was in a restaurant — a hostess at age 15 — and her first major job after spring graduation also is in a restaurant, assistant manager […]

Mike and Joan Ruffatto were grateful to the University of Denver and its Learning Effectiveness Program (LEP). Finally, after years of battling the public school system on behalf of their daughter, Katherine, who has Lupus, they had found a group of professionals willing to accommodate her special needs rather than […]

On May 4, 1970, a group of DU students gathered in the student union to discuss the invasion of Cambodia, a regional expansion of the Vietnam War, announced by President Richard Nixon four days earlier on April 30. The students formed the Ad Hoc Committee to End the War and […]

National Western Stock Show CEO Pat Grant (MBA ’73) is working to sustain and preserve a piece of Western heritage for future generations.

Western original Terri “t.” Stardust (BFA ’91) had a zany idea. Now, every June, riders from around the country join her in Wyoming for a Wild West version of equestrian competition.

Ruth Nauts (EMBA ’01) is optimistic about the future of health care in America. That’s rather comforting given that she intimately knows the challenges ahead thanks to her dual roles as an orthopedic surgeon and as a medical business administrator. Nauts works for Kaiser Permanente and, in April, she became […]

When Brian Thompson (IMBA ’99) needs to unwind, he drags a lawn chair out to the middle of his paddock, kicks back, pulls down his hat and enjoys the peaceful milling of his herd of … alpacas. That’s right. Alpacas. “They’re just magnificent animals,” Thompson says. “They’re so calming to […]

Growing up in the Denver suburb of Montbello, David Edwards (BA ’97), president and CEO of EMotion Pictures Productions, spent his adolescence coveting cars and the freedom they offered. Today, as the producer, writer and director of the documentary film Sprawling from Grace: The Consequences of Suburbanization, Edwards argues that […]