In the midst of television’s popular “Shark Week” this August, it’s hard to imagine nature’s most fearsome predators are in danger. But DU’s Sturm College of Law Environmental Law Clinic on Aug. 4 filed a federal lawsuit to protect the porbeagle shark from overfishing that has pushed the species to […]
DU’s Kibera Working Group (KWG) was selected as one of the 15 best student innovation teams in the country to participate in Open Minds — a video competition and exhibition hosted by the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance and the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. […]
In the midst of television’s popular “Shark Week,” it’s hard to imagine nature’s most fearsome predators are, in fact, defenseless against human beings. But the University of Denver (DU) Sturm College of Law Environmental Law Clinic filed a federal lawsuit today to protect the powerful porbeagle shark because it cannot protect itself from overfishing that has pushed the species to the brink of extinction and left it in desperate need of federal protection.
The top 10 countries hitting www.du.edu: 1. United States (Obvious) 2. India (Would have thought China. Chinese students are DU’s largest international student population.) 3. China (There you are! Indian students are DU’s third largest international student population.) 4. Canada (Maybe because we have a hockey team. A good one.) 5. United […]
LoAn Vo surveyed the scene of endless golf tournaments and saw no need for another. She wanted to help local charities and couldn’t bear to build one more high-dollar get-together on the greens. “My friends and I play tennis and, in the tennis community, there’s not a lot of events,” […]
One work of Austin Zucchini-Fowler is striking both in size and in artistry, and it would not have been possible in DU’s former facilities. Zucchini-Fowler, a senior art major from Phoenix, is painting a massive mural on one of the walls of the new painting studio. He’s employing techniques he […]
Werewolf Smackdown By Mario Acevedo Harper Voyager, 2010 Felix Gomez, Latino vampire detective extraordinaire, tackles a dangerous werewolf cabal in the fifth installment in University of Denver alumnus Mario Acevedo‘s (MCIS ’98) satirical supernatural series. A sure-to-be-bloody civil war is brewing between rival werewolf factions, and P.I . Felix Gomez […]
Poets on Teaching: A Sourcebook Edited by Joshua Marie Wilkinson University of Iowa Press 2010 In response to a lack of source works for wide-ranging approaches to teaching poetry, award-winning poet and University of Denver alum Joshua Marie Wilkinson (PhD English ’07) has gathered 99 short essays for poets, critics […]
Mike Keables, associate dean in the Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and associate professor in the Department of Geography, has been appointed interim dean of DU’s School of Engineering and Computer Science effective Sept. 1. Frank Tuitt, associate professor in the Morgridge College of Education, has been appointed as […]
Aug. 5, 1967 Denver Broncos play at DU Today we take the National Football League’s AFC and NFC conferences for granted, but there was a time when the long-established NFL and the upstart American Football league absolutely hated each other. In 1970 the two leagues would merge, but prior to […]
The University of Denver and the Denver Astronomical Society will host a “Vesta Fiesta” at the University’s historic Chamberlin Observatory. The event celebrates the beginning of the NASA Dawn mission’s year-long visit to the protoplanet Vesta. The Dawn spacecraft left Earth on Sept. 27, 2007, and will reach Vesta this month […]
Eating a meal with Alison Krogel is never just about the food. Krogel, an assistant professor of Spanish at DU, recently wrote a book that explores the way food and cooks appear in various art forms — oral narratives, photographs, poems, songs, novels — among the Quechua, the rural people […]