Without taking definitive action, Colorado in 12 years will generate only enough sales, income and other general-purpose tax revenue to pay for the three largest programs in the general fund: public schools, health care and prisons, according to a new report by the University of Denver’s Center for Colorado’s Economic […]
Starting on Sept. 1, DU staff, students and employees must display new parking permits for the 2011-12 year. Permits purchased online were mailed to each permit holder’s home beginning in mid-August. The sticker should be displayed on the lower left-hand corner of the windshield in a manner that does not interfere […]
Western Union — the company that can send money to virtually any country — has plenty of reasons to partner with a United Nations agency that helps people without a country. But the company’s chairman has an even bigger reason. The University of Denver’s Ved Nanda Center for International and […]
This year, sculptor Gail Folwell spent six months in France — looking at art, sketching and thinking — along with her architect husband and 12- and 14-year old children. It’s a trip she’s always dreamed about taking with her family, and Bill Rey of the Claggett/Ray Gallery in Vail, Colo., […]
Kateri McRae, a DU assistant professor of psychology, is known as Variance when she attends Burning Man festivals in Nevada. She’s been attending the festival since 2006 to study the people who attend. Her research shows that attendees use healthier strategies to change their emotions than when they’re at home. […]
Kateri McRae, a DU assistant professor of psychology, is known as Variance when she attends Burning Man festivals in Nevada. She’s been attending the festival since 2006 to study the people who attend. Her research shows that attendees use healthier strategies to change their emotions than when they’re at home. […]
Sari Havis, a DU lecturer of Hebrew, doesn’t want her students to just learn Hebrew — she wants them to experience the language. It’s the reason she makes sure her students interact with Hebrew and the Israeli culture in memorable ways outside the classroom. During winter quarter, Havis took her […]
In one of his first major U.S. trips since his re-appointment as United Nations secretary-general in June, Ban Ki-moon told an audience of about 700 at the 14th annual Korbel Dinner that a revolution in thinking and in action is needed in sustainable development and “now is the time to […]
There’s no place like home — especially one that plays to a par of 72. The University of Denver announced today that the Highlands Ranch Golf Club will be the official home course for Pioneers golf teams. DU men and women golfers will practice and play at Highlands Ranch beginning […]
The University of Denver’s Office of University Advancement is pleased to announce several recent senior leadership appointments.
Kellan Christensen is not so vain or so enamored with presenting an athletic “tough-guy” façade that he cannot admit how scared he was at times over the past few years. Whenever Christensen is charging down the field, leading the offensive attack for the DU men’s soccer team, he does so […]
Ban Ki-moon will speak at the 14th annual Korbel Dinner Aug. 24
Ann Moore never wore a pair of cowboy boots, never owned spurs, never roped a calf. An English teacher at Cherry Creek High School, she taught a course called Reading and Studying for Success, and didn’t blame her students when their eyes glazed over. “It was an awful title,” Moore […]
The practice of law has evolved with the times. Now, a University of Denver initiative is pushing law schools to keep up. The DU-based Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS) on Aug. 22 launched an initiative with 15 law school partners — including DU’s Sturm College […]
With recommendations and input from a faculty committee, DU administrators have decided that 50 percent of Penrose Library’s book collection will return to the library once the Academic Commons project is complete. The DU Board of Trustees Building and Grounds Committee approved the move after listening to the recommendation of […]