Experts offer debt management advice for students.

Americans live by credit, sometimes well beyond their means. And often, the lifelong dance with debt starts in college.

Gay and lesbian families can face daunting legal challenges.

On the sidelines at his son’s football game, Geoffrey Bateman is filled with a watery-eyed sense of nostalgia and wonder. Zian, 8, is completely in his element as a “Crusher,” barreling into other little boys. They look like stocky, miniature men in their full pads and helmets. Geoffrey can’t help […]

From maze-like fortresses buried in caves behind enemy lines to a traffic-choked intersection at rush hour, researchers at the University of Denver imagine robots boldly going where no human should want — or need — to go. Quietly emerging as a DU specialty, the study of robotics is garnering interest […]

The text Sue Gersick got from her daughter, Ellie Schafer, last March was deceptively innocent. “POTUS just came in and wished me happy birthday!!!” Gersick shot back: “POTUS? Who’s POTUS?” “PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!!!!” Then the pictures arrived. There was the nation’s 44th POTUS, wedged into a cramped outer […]

There are plot twists in the books of Denver-based author Sandra Dallas that surprise even her. “The thing I’m writing now, I have various characters, and all of a sudden, out of nowhere, this couple dies. And they have this daughter,” says Dallas, who earned a BA in journalism from […]

Lisa Johnson (BA psychology, communications ’80) came close to getting an NBA championship ring last year. But the Denver Nuggets fell to the Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Conference Finals during the 2008–09 season. Johnson wishes the team would have advanced to the finals, and she certainly would have […]

Celebrating Stuart Thank you for publishing Margaret Whitt’s remembrance of Stuart James [Essay, fall 2009]. I attended the first class he ever taught at DU, in the fall of 1957 at the old downtown campus. During that class he mentioned flying the B-17 Flying Fortress, and after class I told […]

Even as a student at DU, Rory Vaden talked to people incessantly about how to be successful. The key, he said, was self-discipline. To be successful, you had to do the things other people weren’t willing to do. His college roommate—and a fellow member of the Pioneer Leadership Program—heard the […]

When I started my freshman year at DU 18 years ago, I wasn’t concerned about debt. I was just happy to be going to college at a good school. So what if I would graduate with some student loans? I saw them as an investment in my future. By the […]

  An airplane flies over a row of suburban houses. Parents have a conversation while watching their children play baseball. A woman stands inside a bedroom, peering through a window to the sunny street outside. They’re scenes of mundane, everyday life, but as depicted by painter Joel Sheesley (MFA ’74), […]

Martha Wadsworth, associate professor of psychology at the University of Denver, says families should focus on what has been proven to matter most in psychological research — quality family time — during the holidays. “I love the winter holidays because most of them are about being together with those you […]