Archive for July, 2011

Allahyari builds bridge between U.S. and Iran with art

Allahyari builds bridge between U.S. and Iran with art

Not long after artist Morehshin Allahyari (MA ’09) came to the United States from Iran in 2007 for her master’s degree in digital studies at the University of Denver, she says she became “uncomfortable and shocked” by people’s perception of Iran. “[It’s] more than donkeys in villages, women in hijab, […]

DU to join National Collegiate Hockey Conference

Six of the nation’s top NCAA Division I men’s ice hockey programs have become founding members of the newly formed National Collegiate Hockey Conference, which will begin competition for the 2013–14 season, the programs’ athletic directors and head coaches announced today at historic Penrose House in Colorado Springs, Colo. The […]

Second Annual Summer Carillon Concert Series

University of Denver (DU) Carillonneur Carol Jickling Lens will host five summer concerts at 7 p.m. June 22, July 6, July 20, Aug. 3 and Aug. 17.

Lifesaving Mission: DU to Install 80 AEDs throughout its campus

More than 500 University personnel will receive First Aid/CPR/AED training as part of the program.

Music Video Filmed during TEDxDU is Released

Video filmed in one five-hour period during the TEDxDU event at the University of Denver

Donor Wall Honors Ambassador Sié Chéou-Kang

Unveiling Marks the Centennial of the establishment of Modern China and Honors Sie’s father Ambassador Sié Chéou-Kang.

Deborah Avant Named to SIÉ CHÉOU-KANG Endowed Chair

Deborah Avant has been named the inaugural holder of the SIÉ CHÉOU-KANG Center for International Security and Diplomacy Endowed Chair at the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies.

DU Announces New Marketing and Communications Leader

Kevin A. Carroll to direct Office of University Communications at the University of Denver

Professor receives grant to study cell development

Professor receives grant to study cell development

For University of Denver biology professor Todd Blankenship, $1.4 million will buy a lot of fruit flies. It will also help students earn graduate degrees and help humankind understand how cells develop. It may even unlock the secrets behind insidious diseases. In June, Blankenship learned he had landed a $1.4 […]

Religious studies to offer four tracks of study

As the world has become a more global society, people are seeing an increasing need to study religion. To meet the need, DU’s religious studies department is offering a wider range of programs to help prepare graduate students for careers in related fields. Historically, the department offered students a master’s […]

Pioneers to leave WCHA for new hockey league

Pioneers to leave WCHA for new hockey league

The DU Pioneers hockey team will be leaving the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) to join a new hockey conference, DU Athletics Director Peg Bradley-Doppes announced today in a joint statement with Colorado College Athletics Director Ken Ralph, Miami University Athletics Director Brad Bates, University of Minnesota Duluth Athletics Director […]

Lindsey Buckingham to play Newman Center

Touring in support of his forthcoming sixth solo album, Seeds We Sow, Fleetwood Mac guitarist and singer Lindsey Buckingham will perform at DU’s Newman Center for the Performing Arts on Sept. 14. Tickets — $39.50–$95 — go on sale July 11 at www.newmantix.com. “This might be the best work I’ve […]

DU makes appearance in music video

DU makes appearance in music video

Local rocker John Common’s new video features some unlikely stars:  DU students, staff, faculty, and Denver community members. Common and his band, Blinding Flashes of Light, filmed the video for “In My Neighborhood” at TEDxDU May 13. Shot over the course of the afternoon, the music video features shots of […]

Longtime Iliff trustee Alberta Iliff Shattuck remembered for pioneering research to help children

Longtime Iliff trustee Alberta Iliff Shattuck remembered for pioneering research to help children

Iliff School of Theology Trustee Emeritus Alberta Iliff Shattuck passed away June 9, 2011, at the age of 101. Born in Trinidad, Colo., in 1909, Alberta Iliff was the granddaughter of John Wesley Iliff Sr., Colorado’s first cattle king and the man for whom DU’s neighboring IIiff School of Theology […]

Alum recounts ouster of Mubarak

Alum recounts ouster of Mubarak

Helpful tip: Oil is better than water. At the beginning of the year, DU alumna Annie Kinkel had been living in Cairo, Egypt, for about four months. A Fulbright scholar, she came to the country for extensive archival research for her PhD in history from Rutgers University. She didn’t envision […]