Julie Markham stumbled upon an article in Forbes magazine ranking the top-50 microfinance institutions in the world. Little did she know it would have a profound impact on her education, and possibly her career. After reading the article, Markham — who’s on track to graduate in June 2010 with a […]
The University of Denver’s Daniels College of Business and the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado – Boulder today announced the findings of a three-month research project on a new program design for U.S. economic stimulus.
John Edward Thompson: Colorado Modernist opens at the University of Denver (DU) Myhren Gallery Nov. 12, 2009.
The Women’s College at the University of Denver announced Phyllis Mann, Rose Yolanda Caro, RoShaea Alford, and Wendy Lopez as the recipients of its 2009 Vision Scholarship.
University of Denver History Professor Susan Schulten says President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration introduced several programs which fundamentally altered the place of government in the economy.
DU’s Center for Judaic Studies will celebrate 150 years of Jewish life in Colorado with nine months of events under the theme “Pioneering Jews: Cowboys, Rebels and Trailblazers.” The center’s events will begin with an exhibition about Denver’s first Jewish residents at the Jewish Community Center’s Singer Gallery. Jeanne Abrams, […]
An 11-story apartment building envisioned for the southeast corner of University Boulevard and East Evans Avenue could be under construction as soon as early summer, developers say. Phil Caplan and partner David Elowe have lined up nearly all the financing they need to get the 213-unit retail-residential mixed-use project ready […]
Wildfires are a part of life in the west. Recently, California’s Station Fire, the largest wildfire in Los Angeles County’s recorded history, burned nearly 250 square miles and has been estimated to have cost more than $100 million. But DU lecturer Lisa Dale says that while fire suppression costs tend […]
DU’s Carson-Brierly Dance Library already has one of the largest square dance collections in the West — the Lloyd Shaw archive, which boasts 72,000 items. Now the collection has grown even larger thanks to a gift from Bob and Becky Osgood and Paul Moore, who drove the collection from California […]
Even though the game is played on ice, the memories of former DU hockey players and coaches are some of the warmest of their lives. More than 300 faces and voices from DU’s legendary hockey heritage recalled stories, re-lived past glories and rekindled friendships at an Oct. 10 reunion honoring […]
Sieglinde Lug, professor emerita at the University of Denver, translated Nobel Prize winning author Herta Müller’s “Nadirs.”
Just in time to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the telescope, DU’s own window to the stars is wrapping up a renovation more than 100 years in the making. Crews have been banging, digging, patching and painting at DU’s historic Chamberlin Observatory since spring, cleaning up after decades of heat […]
DU’s men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams had historic seasons last year, but none of the student-athletes or coaches on the 2009-10 roster are using the strong showing as an excuse to tread water. “We want to be known as one of the best programs in the West, if […]
University of Denver Associate Professor Robert Stencel opened the University’s historic Chamberlin Observatory early Oct. 9 and joined members of the Denver Astronomical Society to watch as NASA sent a probe crashing into the moon’s surface. The DU-based moon gazers hitched a video camera to the end of the observatory’s […]
DU’s Sturm College of Law is remembering late law instructor Erik Bluemel by naming a new international scholar program in his honor. Bluemel, who taught environmental and indigenous peoples law, died May 6 as a result of injuries suffered in an early morning bicycle crash a day earlier in Denver. […]