The University of Denver community has exceeded its goals in raising money to help the earthquake-stricken Caribbean nation of Haiti. DU students, staff, faculty, organizations and departments donated $13,610 to the fundraising campaign. Originally, organizers had hoped to raise $10,000. “I’m just really proud that the University came together around […]

Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey (MA ’80) told a packed audience gathered for the University of Denver’s Founders Day gala that his time at the University was foundational. During his speech at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts on March 4, he said that when he entered […]

On a day when planners attending the Rocky Mountain Land Use Conference at DU were tasked with envisioning the next American landscape, the conference’s keynote speaker asserted that the vision behind most planning theories is wrong. The contrast Thursday underscored the title of the institute’s 19th annual gathering, “The New […]

President Barack Obama has nominated William Martinez, a DU adjunct professor of law, for a trial judge seat in the U.S. District Court of Colorado. The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee must confirm Martinez, a process that could take several months to complete. Martinez was born in Mexico City and immigrated […]

More than 500 business people showed up at the Colorado Convention Center on Wednesday to talk about sustainability. Many of them heard the University of Denver held up as both a shining example and a guide to attitudes on Wall Street. The example part at the Sustainable Opportunities Summit came […]

Arthur Gilbert, who is known for his distinctive courses, once again has a full roster for his new class, Apocalypse Now. In the class, Gilbert, a DU professor of international studies, uses a historical approach to teach how global figures and events have shaped present day policies. His ultimate goal […]

Sophomores Caitlin Barrett and Janelle Ludowise were dancers without a stage. They came to DU with a love of dance and experience to back it up, but didn’t have a place to perform around campus. “I first began tap dancing when I was five years old but I didn’t really […]

Lorenzo Sanchez had been in fights before, but this one was different. A California transplant, Sanchez was new to Denver’s Skyview High School when one of his friends was shoved into a locker. Sanchez and his buddies retaliated against the bully and his buddies, and the ensuing melee ended with […]

The University of Denver is cranking up the power on renewable energy research, teaming in the past year with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on projects that may someday help the United States run cleaner and more independently. Robert Noun, executive director for communications at NREL, told attendees at […]

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Essayist Janalee Card Chmel on turning 40 and an unexpected new arrival

Family values Regarding your article “Full House” [winter 2009], I disagree that it is evident or a foregone conclusion that the gay and lesbian lifestyle is without long-term societal impact. The article does not address some of society’s concerns that the lifestyle is biologically unhealthy, for example. There are also […]

Steve Shaffer has found his heaven on Earth. His personal piece of paradise is WOLF — a rescue organization and sanctuary near Fort Collins, Colo., that is home to 30 captive-bred wolves and wolf dogs. WOLF’s 180 acres of pine and aspen forest are a sanctuary for Shaffer, too. For […]

William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County—the Southern setting for classic novels such as Absalom, Absalom!, As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury—is a fictional place, but as fictional places go it’s one of literature’s most enduring locales. Faulkner based Yoknapatawpha on the northeast corner of Mississippi where he lived […]

It’s common for college athletic programs to provide the best coaches, trainers, nutritionists and health science experts to their student-athletes. Now, DU student-athletes also have access to a full-time sport and performance psychologist. DU is one of about 12 programs in the country to offer the service to its students. […]