Due to other commitments, famed opera singer and DU alumnus Hao Jiang Tian (MA ’87) has bowed out of the Lamont School of Music’s inaugural fall opera production of Charles Gounod’s Faust. DU professor and opera director Kenneth Cox, who was scheduled to alternate the role of Mephistopheles with Tian, […]
It’s not easy starting a business in one of the worst economies in history. It’s not easy starting a business while working a full-time job. And it’s not easy starting a business while raising two children. But somehow, law alumna Suzanne Wilson (JD ’04) and husband Ben Focht, a DU […]
Those who associate ballet with the stylized moves in Swan Lake or Don Quixote are in for a surprise when they see the fiery performances staged by New York-based Ballet Hispanico. While the 41-year-old company has its share of graceful dances set to classical music, it also has pieces like […]
DU Writing Program Lecturer Geoffrey Bateman’s first-year advanced writing seminar is anything but a typical class students take to fulfill a graduation requirement. In the Gender of Homelessness, Bateman uses his connections at the Gathering Place to give his students a chance to engage in service learning and write narratives […]
Many children who live in public housing drop out of school at a young age to help support their families. They slip through the system largely unnoticed without an opportunity to finish high school or attend college. Amy Nguyen’s experience was different. Nguyen — who was born in Lam Dong, […]
Denver men’s soccer begins its defense of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation regular season crown when the Pioneers take on in-state rival Air Force at CIBER Field at 7 p.m. Saturday. DU is 23-25-4 all-time against the Falcons but is 6-0-1 in the past seven meetings and 15-3-1 since 2000. […]
With President Barack Obama touching down in Denver to stump for his vision of recovery, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Labor Seth Harris was at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law Sept. 27 to back the president’s newly revealed jobs plan. Speaking at the law school’s Workplace Law Annual […]
Kjell Lindgren didn’t really know how he was going to get there, but from childhood he knew he wanted to explore outer space. Lindgren — now a NASA astronaut — told DU students on Sept. 26 that today’s space programs don’t require students to follow a path through the military […]
The Playground Ensemble is an anomaly in the world of classical music: Rather than performing works by Beethoven, Bach and the other usual suspects, the group takes the bold step of performing pieces by composers who are still alive — or were alive in the 20th century. “Modern music has […]
For the past decade, DU sociology Professor Peter Adler and his wife Patti, professor of sociology at the University of Colorado-Boulder, have been studying self-injury. Their book, The Tender Cut (New York University Press, August 2011), has been getting national attention. It offers new insights into people who deliberately injure […]
Interest in DU Pioneers hockey is high as students began camping out for season tickets more than 24 hours in advance. Tents and barbecues began dotting the area outside the Ritchie Center box office on Sept. 23. Season tickets for students went on sale the morning of Sept. 24. The […]
To the existing number of campus-area bars and eateries named for DU sports traditions — the Crimson and Gold, the Pioneer, the Stadium Inn — add one more: Boone’s, named for DU’s unofficial pioneer mascot. Scheduled to open in mid-November on the northwest corner of South Downing Street and East […]
National Collegiate Hockey Conference gets news members.
The University of Denver is at a turning point in its history — at the zenith of its 147 years — but it can go much further if opportunities are seized upon, said Chancellor Robert Coombe on Sept. 22. Coombe addressed more than 700 faculty and staff members at the […]
Rebuilding Justice: Civil Courts in Jeopardy and Why You Should Care By Rebecca Love Kourlis and Dirk Olin Fulcrum Publishing, 2011 “The court system lies at the heart of our democracy, and it is in jeopardy.” That’s the conclusion of Rebecca Love Kourlis, founder and executive director of the University […]