Just as the castles of yore protected their inhabitants from enemies, Castle Marne protects its guests from the hectic, technology-tweaked pace of modern life. There are no cell phones ringing here, no televisions blaring, no computer cursors blinking, begging you to type what’s on your mind. Instead there is a […]
Alumna Kristin Waters is floating reform ideas in Denver’s roughest schools.
Whether they end up becoming great actors or not, every kid can benefit from taking an acting class, says DU theater Assistant Professor Anthony Hubert. “Most human beings are extremely insecure, and we wear all these masks to try to cover that insecurity, to appear strong,” he says. “I think […]
Sara Shanahan was one of eight undergraduate students who received a $2,500 grant for an internship that normally would be unpaid.
Authors and spouses Melanie and Steve Tem met at a creative writing workshop, so it’s only fitting that their relationship has resulted in a number of literary collaborations. Their new book, In Concert (Centipede Press, 2010), compiles the stories the couple has written together over 30 years for publications such […]
Thomas Drabek has explored how humans react to all kinds of disaster in new book.
This summer, in the shadow of soccer’s World Cup, lacrosse held its own version of a world cup, a relatively small blip on the sports media radar screen. But for one University of Denver athlete, it was still an unforgettable event. “It was an amazing experience,” says Todd Baxter, one […]
A $17.5 million gift, among the largest in the University’s history, will be used in part to establish a center at DU for the study of aging. Betty Knoebel, widow of Denver food-service pioneer Ferdinand “Fritz” Knoebel, announced the gift in May. It includes the B Bar K Ranch—a 996-acre […]
Electric vehicles are more than a hobby for engineering grad student Eva Hakansson.
Robynne Locke (MA cultural anthropology ’10) only graduated a few months ago, but already she has made a huge contribution toward eliminating sex trafficking. For her master’s thesis, Locke documented a cycle of trafficking, rehabilitation and re-trafficking. She also developed recommendations for breaking the cycle. The United Nations reports that […]
A century ago, the University competed in four intercollegiate sports — football, basketball, baseball and tennis. Today, while basketball flourishes, football has been scrubbed and baseball sent down to the minors as a club sport. Tennis, meanwhile, enters its second century quietly racking up accolades with forehands, backhands and serves. […]