It is not often that you hear “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” sung at a funeral, but it was a fitting tribute to local sports legend and DU alumnus Richard “Dick” Yates, who died Sept. 11, 2010, at the age of 84. Yates, a member of the Colorado Sports […]
Visit the Institute For Truth In Accounting’s website and the first noticeable feature is a kinetic meter showing the escalating national debt. Most people may have seen such a meter elsewhere. However, the website adds a further twist to the concept: Below the “official” debt — roughly $13 trillion — […]
DU’s Center for Judaic Studies will dedicate the on-campus Holocaust Memorial Social Action Site on Oct. 10 with the setting of the memorial’s first stone near Buchtel Tower. The outdoor gathering place is designed to transform the memory of the millions in Europe murdered by the Nazis more than 65 […]
When Tony Gault met Carbondale, Colo., resident Kevin Harris, he thought Harris would make a great subject for a film. Gault, a DU associate professor of film, was intrigued by Harris’ story of rescuing a baby crow from a storm. The film centers on Harris, who helps his teenage daughter […]
Erin Bleakley wants women to show off their inner beauty by expressing it on the outside. “It’s about making people feel confident,” Bleakley says of the aim of her self-made fashion label, Erin Kathleen Couture. The 21-year-old University of Denver senior says confidence was something she, like many women, had […]
University of Denver alumni will have the opportunity to sharpen their pencils — and their minds — by returning to campus for a weekend of learning, engaging discussions and a chance to reconnect with others Oct. 1–2. The fourth annual Alumni Symposium will feature keynote addresses, campus tours, faculty seminars […]
DU’s Newman Center for the Performing Arts has added two concerts to its Newman Center Presents series since the original lineup was officially announced last spring. Venezuelan violinist Eddy Marcano and his Trio Acustico perform Nov. 13 in the Hamilton Recital Hall. The concert will mix traditional Venezuelan folk music […]
Students started lining up for Pioneers hockey season tickets at 8 a.m. last Friday morning. Many of them didn’t see a Ritchie Center ticket agent until 24 hours later. After the dust cleared on Saturday, more than 300 student season tickets had been sold as a result of the annual […]
From where Keith Darr stands, there are plenty of coffee shops along East Evans Avenue and University Boulevard but too few on South Downing Street. So, come mid-November, Darr intends to open a Dazbog coffee shop in a former office building near Porter Adventist Hospital. “There isn’t another coffee house […]
The Women’s College (TWC) at DU recently added several new scholarships. Military spouses are encouraged to apply for the Military Spouses Scholarship and can combine this scholarship with other military education benefits. The Community College Success Scholarship is available to Colorado residents transferring to TWC from an accredited community college. […]
Whether or not art becomes their full-time vocation after graduation, current DU art students are likely to find plenty of motivation at the 2010 Juried Alumni Exhibition, opening Sept. 30 in the Victoria H. Myhren Gallery in the Shwayder Art Building. “Some of the artists [in the show] are professional artists, […]
James Foyle was a bookworm who inspired many others — including his daughter — to be the same. “He and mom encouraged all their children to learn. It was always about pleasure reading and the knowledge that would come with the joy of learning all things,” says his daughter, Janet […]
There’s the history of nations, the history of kings, the history of wars — all of it written down in textbooks and taught to generations of school kids. Then there’s the history of people, of individual lives in all their mundane, complex glory. You find it in diaries, old letters, […]
With anti-incumbent sentiment growing and lawmakers in many states squeezing budgets, government employees have found themselves in the crosshairs, but that’s increasingly unfair and unwise, according to state government employee union leaders. Speaking to University of Denver Sturm College of Law Strategic Issues Program panelists on Sept. 23, Robert Gibson, […]
Technology has allowed companies to move from stocking large amounts of merchandise to shipping what the buyer wants directly to them. It’s called “on-demand” service and it is used by Netflix and Amazon. Now, the same concept is being used by librarians at DU’s Penrose library. They call it “demand-driven […]