When Susan Jenson got her MA in art at DU in 1998, she thought she was off to a career as a college instructor, teaching undergrads the finer points of Picasso, postmodernism and perspective. But that all went out the window when she set foot in Downtown Aurora Visual Arts […]
Denver- and Arizona-based artist Carl Dalio painted this pastel of the Harper Humanities Gardens in summer 2010. A member of the American Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor Society and the Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Society, Dalio also creates many of the architectural illustrations for new buildings on the DU campus. […]
A $3 million gift from the Roche Family Foundation and Robert Roche will establish the Roche Family International Business Transactions Program at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. The new program will increase the school’s capacity to provide comprehensive, internationally relevant business transaction skills training for master’s of […]
Ski team scrapbook I read with great interest the last issue of the University of Denver Magazine [winter 2010] that included the picture of the 1946 ski team on page 53. Enclosed are pictures of the 1962 ski team around our 1962 Buick team car, with what I believe is […]
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Winter Carnival, a favorite Pioneers tradition. The first Winter Carnival was held the weekend of Jan. 13, 1961, and was sponsored by the Pioneer Ski Club. Although that weekend included a Friday the 13th, the date was selected because it coincided with NCAA […]
Ask DU statistics Professor Robert Hannum how invigorating he finds the study of probability, data collection and quantitative analysis, 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 statistics […]
As a PhD student at DU’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies, Ahmad Najim Dost is not studying unfamiliar territory. He lived most of his life in Pakistan as an Afghan refugee. “I grew up in developing countries, and I wanted to study about where I come from,” Dost says. […]
Allan Roth thinks investing is so simple a child can do it. But that’s not to say adults feel the same way. “Investing is so simple any 8-year-old can do it but so emotional it’s hard for adults to do it,” Roth explains. The financial planner and DU adjunct professor’s […]
George Jetson would feel right at home teaching at the University of Denver these days. He wouldn’t expect to conduct his class with chalk, chalkboards, dry erase boards (and the smelly markers that go with them), overhead projectors and those clunky slide carousels. And at DU he wouldn’t have to, […]
If only I had read Jeffrey Jensen Arnett’s book Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road From the Late Teens Through the Twenties (Oxford University Press, 2006) when my daughter was a freshman, I would have had a better understanding of how and why her college experience and her view of life […]
If Denver comes to mind when you think about modernism, or art shows, or anything cool or hip, then you probably have Dana Cain (BA mass communications ’81) to thank. Founder of the Denver Modernism Show, the Colorado Chocolate Festival and the Vintage Voltage Expo, among others, Cain has hosted […]
In Sanskrit, the word for spring comes from sphayati, “desires eagerly.” In Old English, “springan” meant “to leap, burst forth, fly up.” I’m doing it all. Through the winter, I kindled desire, ogling seed-catalog pictures of voluptuous tomatoes and curvaceous squash. Were they airbrushed? What vegetable could look that perfect? […]
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 release in 1965 to a cult classic that was reprinted by […]
When Bill Tierney decided to leave the Princeton Tigers men’s lacrosse team after 22 years and six national titles to take the helm of the Pioneers men’s lacrosse team, the media went bananas. The New Yorker’s John McPhee wrote a feature on Tierney, Lacrosse Magazine named him “person of the […]
Last spring I started researching the story of my great uncle Paul Clum, a paratrooper killed in the Philippines during World War II. His death was a great source of sorrow for my grandfather, and I wanted Uncle Paul to be remembered even after those who knew him were gone. […]