Lynn Gangone was named dean of the Women’s College of the University of Denver and associate clinical professor of higher education in spring 2007. She is a nationally known writer and speaker on gender equality, with expertise in women’s education and educational equity, as well as leadership development and career […]

One of the proudest moments in Peter Funt’s career came in 1967, when he interviewed Martin Luther King Jr. on his DU radio show. Another came in 2004, after Funt (BA ’69) had taken over for his father, Allen Funt, as host of the hidden-camera TV series “Candid Camera.” In […]

It’s not easy to refuse a wolf that wants to lick you in the mouth. After the obligatory sniffing, a thorough face licking is their way of saying, “Welcome, human.” The animals are large and forceful; to deny them would be taken as an offense. The dexterity of their tongues […]

The University of Denver always has prepared students to become leaders in business, law and other academic fields. A new sequence of courses offered through DU’s Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning (CCESL) aims to prepare students to become leaders in their communities as well.

At DU, many courses are anything but traditional. Think classes taught via satellite. Think reading “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” for homework, or comparing two different kinds of sauvignon blanc during class. We asked students and academic departments around the University about some of their coolest and most outside-the-box courses.

Dedicated on Oct. 30, 2009, this sculpture—titled Birds of Happiness—was installed in Penrose Library in memory of Stuart James, a DU English professor from 1957–86.  Jean James, Stuart’s widow, and their daughter, Barbara James, commissioned the sculpture in 1995 from Loveland, Colo., based sculptor Dee Clements; it previously was located […]

Jon Williams (BA psychology ’76) is bringing civility back. Sixty years ago, Williams’ parents — a pair of professional dancers who had worked with Arthur Murray and Fred Astaire — founded Jon D. Williams Cotillions, which provided dance instruction and social-etiquette training to children in the Colorado Springs area. Williams […]

A few years after graduating from DU with a degree in international business, Jennifer Simonetti-Bryan had a business lunch that changed her life. She was working for Citibank in London, and on the lunch menu was herb-crusted salmon and Sancerre — a white wine from the Loire valley in France. […]

DU’s Department of Theatre and Lamont School of Music are traveling to ancient Rome for their annual collaboration, teaming up to perform Stephen Sondheim’s musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum March 3–7. In the early 1960s, long before he became world famous for songs like […]

Led by Director Jim Griesemer, DU’s Strategic Issues Program (SIP) each year sets out to see whether 20 leaders from varied backgrounds can examine an issue facing the state of Colorado or the nation in depth and then develop solutions through consensus. In 2009 the panel sought to develop a pragmatic solution to the multitude of issues entangled with immigration, both legal and illegal.

Like the more than 1,000 students who graduated from DU with her in June 2009, Caitlin Shea (BSBA ’09) walked away from the Commencement ceremony with a souvenir: a tiny crimson and gold alumni pin. The new grads were instructed to carry the pin with them to give to a […]

It’s probably safe to say there are few people who are equally comfortable trying a case in a courtroom and flying through the air, waiting for someone to catch them by their ankles. But flying through the air as a member of the Westminster-based Imperial Flyers trapeze and circus arts […]

It’s easy to say the University of Denver was an important part of Rosie Meyer’s life. Meyer, who died Oct. 30, 2009, at age 82, earned a psychology degree from DU in 1949. She met her husband, Dick (BA ’51), at DU, her brothers also were alumni and her granddaughter […]

Alysia Kline (MS finance ’04, MBA ’04) knows what it’s like to be a woman in a man’s world. And she’s a competitor — in sports and business — as co-owner of the women’s outdoor gear and apparel company Outdoor Divas. Kline’s summary of running the business is simple: “It’s […]

Armed with $2.4 million from the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Linseman has devoted the last three years to unraveling the mysteries of Lou Gehrig’s disease. The bulk of his work aims to identify some of the intra-cellular mechanisms by which apoptosis — or programmed cell death — occurs in ALS, in the hope that drug makers might someday use the information to develop better treatments. But well aware of the lack of time patients face, he’s also looking at more accessible potential remedies, such as antioxidant compounds in certain nutrients, that could provide relief even sooner.