One day, Grace Kittle will look back on her time at the University of Denver, and her most vivid memories will involve making history and enduring pain. When Kittle picks up her bachelor’s degree at DU’s undergraduate Commencement on June 4, she will do so as the most decorated and […]
While her ancestors looked up at the stars under dark Western skies and pondered the heavens, Charee Peters has wrestled with complicated formulas and mathematics to try to unravel those same mysteries. When Peters walks across the stage and graduates from the University of Denver on June 4, it’s believed […]
Don’t mistake Jeannette Le for your stereotypical sorority girl. The 22-year-old, who will graduate from DU on June 4, represents the less celebrated side of the Greek system. She works much harder than she plays. Le will get dual degrees — a bachelor’s degree in business administration and international business […]
On June 3, Richard Froude will collect his doctoral degree in creative writing from DU. Days later, the 32-year-old will begin pre-med courses at the University of Colorado-Denver, with hopes that by 2013 he’ll have the science background required for medical school. The doctoral degree, improbably, is the prologue to […]
June 18, 1884 DU awards diploma to its first graduate On June 18, 1884, trustees, faculty and students crowded into the First Baptist Church for the first annual Commencement of the University of Denver. John Hipp, the son of German and Swiss immigrants and the sole graduate that year, […]
For graduating seniors searching for jobs, there’s good news. The job market is looking brighter this year than it has in recent years. According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), hiring for new graduates is up 21 percent over last year. Also, 41 percent of seniors who […]
From north to south, breakfast to dinner, pancakes to pizza, these 26 alumni-owned restaurants are putting DU on Denver’s culinary map.
For champion gymnast, hospitality maven and A student Brianna Springer, life truly is a balancing act. The junior attends DU on a full athletic scholarship. She’s won dozens of event titles and awards and was one of 12 individual gymnasts in the nation to compete in the NCAA women’s gymnastics […]
Students need passion, know-how and real-world experience to succeed in DU’s school of hospitality management.
Peter Morton created the world’s most popular rock ’n’ roll restaurant. Then he opened a hotel that changed Las Vegas forever. Now what?
“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 […]
Most music schools teach students how to perform on stage, but they don’t teach skills for performance in the business world. Ramon “Ray” Ricker (BME ’65) fills in the missing notes to help aspiring musicians avoid becoming starving artists in his book Lessons From a Street-Wise Professor: What You Won’t […]
There’s a saying in marketing that you sell the sizzle, not the steak. That works if you’re selling something that has sizzle. But when it’s your job to promote more sedate commodities like potatoes, honey and wool, the hurdles become a little bigger. Unless you’re Lori Garcia-McGehee (BBA ’95). A […]
When they were seniors at DU, Maddy D’Amato (BA sociology ’08) and Alex Hasulak (BSBA ’08) called on their fellow students to help them perfect their granola recipe, bringing samples to campus for their classmates to taste and evaluate. Three years later, the pair’s Love Grown Foods granola is on […]
From community-supported agriculture and farm-to-table restaurants to bestselling books by Michael Pollan and Barbara Kingsolver, fresh, local food is all the rage in culinary America. The problem, says Lisa Rogers, is that fresh and local isn’t as easy to come by as people think. All looks good at Whole Foods […]