War has many victims. But one group of people affected by the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan can’t fend for themselves, and Elizabeth McCarthy is determined to do something about it. “When a parent is deployed, children don’t fully understand the concept of war and what’s going on overseas, but […]
Writers of all kinds and skill levels can participate in the National Day on Writing Oct. 20. DU’s Writing Program and the University Writing Center will host three events to coincide with the day, which was established by the National Council of Teachers of English. “Writing will be an essential […]
Before he even set foot on the University of Denver campus this fall, freshman Pioneer Beau Bennett became a National Hockey League first-round draft pick and then met the Pittsburgh Penguins’ Sidney Crosby, arguably hockey’s biggest superstar. Not a bad summer. “It was really an unreal moment,” Bennett says of […]
The Lamont School of Music is hosting its first Bassfest Oct. 23 and 24. Players of all ages are invited to participate in master classes, clinics, ensemble coaching and mock auditions. Special guest artist and clinician Bruce Bransby, former principal bass of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and professor of double […]
Timothy Weaver, a DU associate professor of electronic media arts and design and digital media studies, has installed his art in museums and festivals from Ecuador to Germany. Fans won’t have to travel nearly that far for his latest creation, Hylaea. The video, print and rare book installation opens Oct. […]
DU Psychology Professor Thomas Barrett has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to teach at the University of Zagreb and conduct research on mental health services in Croatia. Barrett is a clinical professor in DU’s International Disaster Psychology Program in the Graduate School of Professional Psychology. The U.S. State Department […]
Timothy Weaver, associate professor of Electronic Media Arts and Design and Digital Media Studies, has installed his art in museums and festivals from Ecuador to Berlin. Fans won’t have to travel nearly that far for his latest creation “Hylaea.” The video, print and rare book installation opens Oct. 14 at DU’s Penrose Library.
Hundreds of alumni, parents, students, faculty and staff will come together this weekend in celebration of Homecoming. Events will be held Oct. 14–17. Hockey games against Boston College and a “Taste of DU” event, featuring sample dishes and foods from restaurants owned by DU alumni and prepared by hotel, restaurant […]
An icon of modern dance since the 1950s, Paul Taylor has seen a lot of trends come and go. The latest fashion, wherein choreographers use technology and video projections to enhance their work, elicits a strong reaction from the 80-year-old Taylor. “I think it stinks,” he says with a laugh. […]
Ask DU statistics professor Robert Hannum about how academically invigorating the study of probability, data collection and quantitative analysis is, and he can’t bluff. “I freely admit there are many areas of statistics that I find dry and boring,” he says. “That’s part of the reason I ended up doing […]
DU had some of its largest first-year classes in the late 1940s when World War II veterans attended college thanks to the GI Bill. While not quite up to those levels, the incoming 2010-11 class is one of the University’s largest ever. The class of 2014 has 1,231 full-time, first-year […]
Chip Michael doesn’t bother listening to the radio. Those songs only compete with the music that constantly plays inside his head. “There’s always a melody going on, there’s always something,” says the graduate student in composition at the Lamont School of Music. [My wife and I] will go for these […]
The Denver Pioneer volleyball team is teaming up with the Side-Out Foundation to host a Dig Pink game at noon Oct. 10 in DU’s Hamilton Gymnasium. Dig Pink is a national breast cancer awareness rally taking place throughout the Sun Belt Conference volleyball season to help educate and raise money […]
Doing the same thing and depending on the same funding won’t get it done any longer when it comes to state services. The leaders of Colorado’s courts and higher education told a University of Denver panel Oct. 7 that a new standard of efficiency and streamlining is the only way […]
The recent news involving the tragic suicide of Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi has dominated discussions in the news media and in campus communities around the country. At DU, the event underscores the importance of the need of every student, staff and faculty member to respect each other’s differences and […]