When double amputee Neil Duncan summited Mount Kilimanjaro, he did more than conquer Africa’s highest peak. The climb marked the end of his recovery and the beginning of the rest of his life.

Palestinian women are fighting for independence and equality. PhD candidate Rebecca Otis is documenting their struggle.

The family that had a hand in everything from the U.S. Senate to the Central City Opera to the Denver Broncos also had a lasting impact on DU.

Alum David Lucy reflects on his time as the country’s first black collegiate skier.

Thanks to the dizzying forward progress of technology, the media and communications industries have undergone big changes in recent years. And DU alum Jim Kennedy (BSBA ’70) has played a major role in all of it. As CEO of Cox Enterprises from 1998–2010, Kennedy guided his private, family owned company […]

Food, Power, and Resistance in the Andes: Exploring Quechua Verbal and Visual Narratives By Alison Krögel Lexington Books, 2011   Food, Power, and Resistance explores the ways in which artistic representations of food and cooks often convey subversive meanings that resist attempts to locate indigenous Andeans — and Quechua women […]

Stoner By John Williams New York Review of Books, 2006   Stoner was John Williams’ third novel, but it’s the one that has earned the former head of DU’s creative writing program the most attention. The tale of a farm boy-turned-college professor has grown from a poor-selling title upon its […]

Colorado Seminary founded March 1864   On March 4, Colorado Territorial Gov. John Evans (pictured) signed into law Bill No. 22, which created a board of trustees “for the purpose of founding, directing, and maintaining an institution of learning, to be styled the Colorado Seminary.” On March 14 that year, […]

A 25-year-old ski instructor from Anchorage, Alaska, seems an unlikely champion for schools in Nicaragua. But Espen Haugen (BA international studies and geography ’08) is unusually determined. He first went to Nicaragua in 2007 as part of a geography course taught by Associate Professor Matthew Taylor. Haugen knew that although […]

Mary Overington (MSW ’98) is eager to talk about why her work for Denver-based Clothes To Kids means so much to her. “When I hear stories about kids who come in [to our store] and their eyes say, ‘Wow — I get to shop and pick out what I like,’ […]

Going from running a hospice to running a restaurant may sound like an odd transition, but to Jan Bezuidenhout it makes perfect sense. Bezuidenhout (MSW ’85), founder of the Denver-based Namaste Hospice, says that no matter how connected they were with the hospice during their loved ones’ illnesses, very few […]

Candace Toft (MA ’74) wrote Off the Ropes: The Ron Lyle Story (Scratching Shed Publishing, 2010) to shed light on Lyle’s extraordinary life. The major heavyweight contender from Denver is portrayed as a man defined not by his failures but by his triumphs in and out of the boxing ring. […]

David Rosenberg thinks soccer can connect the world. “It’s a universal language in a way,” he says. “You can bring a ball to a field anywhere in the world and you can connect.” That’s the message Rosenberg (BA mass communications and psychology ’78) and co-author Ethan Zohn relay in their […]

Ed Stein’s Mile High City-themed comic strip Denver Square ran for 12 years in the Rocky Mountain News. When the News folded in 2009, Stein reinvented the strip as Freshly Squeezed, a nationally syndicated daily comic about a multigeneration family forced to live together because of the economic downturn. “I […]

There are people in this world who, simply by living their lives, teach those around them how to more fully live their own. Dennis Erik Markusson (BS ’92), known as Erik to his friends, was one of those people. “His attitude was, ‘I’m here. I’m going to do this,’” says […]