During the past two decades, many small arts groups have faced financial difficulty performing or exhibiting a large number of works thanks to the nation’s copyright laws. But that could all change if DU music professor Lawrence Golan persuades the Supreme Court to take his side this fall. As conductor […]
DU staffer Gregory Hill has won in the general fiction category of the 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest. His winning entry, a novel titled East of Denver, will be published in June 2012 by Penguin Group. Hill also received a $15,000 advance. Hill, 38, who has worked as a […]
Katie Crouse was born to bake pizza. “I was born and raised on the pizza goodness,” says Crouse, whose father was the second franchisee of Black Jack Pizza in Colorado back in 1984. Crouse started helping him when she was just 13 years old, working the front counter in a […]
University of Denver professor Todd Blankenship asks the “big questions” in life. For instance: Why do we look like we do? How do humans and animals emerge from a single, mostly round cell into the shapes that we take? How do our emerging, “programmed” cells line up in the correct […]
“Opening a restaurant is fun,” says Frank Bonanno. “It’s the running of them that’s tedious.” Maybe that explains why the 43-year-old Denver restaurateur has opened three new places in the past three years: the cozy noodle bar Bones, which sits on the same block as his flagships Mizuna and Luca […]
If you were to meet Jason Barton at a party and ask what he did for a living, he’d probably tell you: “I’m a garbage man.” An odd occupation, you might think, for someone with a bachelor’s degree in sociology from DU, a master’s in English from the University of […]
In 2011, when pretty much anything goes in the world of visual art, it’s hard to imagine what a big deal it was 60 years ago when a handful of Colorado artists left the realm of the real behind to go in a more abstract, modern direction. Numbering 10 DU art […]
William Zaranka’s career at the University of Denver spanned six decades. The young man who first came to Colorado and DU as a creative writing student in 1969 has since served as professor, program chair, dean and provost. In 2003, he returned to his faculty position in DU’s English department […]
Nancy Cochran will join DU as director of the Lamont School of Music starting Aug. 1, 2011. Cochran, professor at Southern Methodist University’s Meadow School of the Arts and former director of its division of music, currently serves as the SMU’s director of chamber music and coordinator of applied studies […]
It’s one of life’s ironies: Those who are able to tell the most riveting stories of personal experience are often also the most reluctant to tell them. For that reason, alum Patrick “P.J.” Glavey (BS finance ’07) talks about losing his legs in a dispassionate, just-the-facts manner. The 26-year-old could […]
At an average DU event, a 21-year-old college student would blend right in with the crowd. But at DU’s annual Emeritus Tea — where attendees include alumni who graduated 50 or more years ago, emeritus faculty members and retired staff — junior Henry Miketa stood out. Although the alumni from […]
As family and friends looked on, and buoyed by the life lessons imparted by Commencement speaker John Morgridge, 962 University of Denver students received their undergraduate degrees at a June 4 ceremony held at DU’s Magness Arena. Morgridge, chairman emeritus of Cisco Systems, also received an honorary doctorate in education […]
Whistles, waves, claps and an occasional “Way to go, Mom” accompanied nearly 1,000 master’s and doctoral students who participated in DU’s 2011 graduate Commencement June 3 at Magness Arena. During the ceremony, keynote speaker Judith Miscik (MA international studies ’82) received an honorary doctorate of public service from Chancellor Robert […]
Joyce Sterling, professor in the Sturm College of Law, discussed “Perspectives on Gender and Diversity in Law Firms” on a panel at the Law and Society Association Annual meeting in San Francisco in June. At the meeting, she also co-presented “Why Do Women Take the ‘Off Ramps’ or ‘Opt Out’ […]
When a University of Denver professor looking for a solution found engineering students looking for a problem, the result was the definition of DUing. Geography Associate Professor Matthew Taylor has spent 15 years working in rural Guatemala, helping the poorest inhabitants live better lives. He and his students have […]