“I can’t believe she’s applying to college,” my daughter says, voice trailing off in misery. “I keep bursting into tears. The people at work think I’m losing it.” The “she” in question is my daughter’s only child — the girl about to fly the nest at the end of this […]
Raised in one of Denver’s poorest neighborhoods and incarcerated at 16, Jose Guerrero was going nowhere fast. Slam poetry helped the DU student turn his life around.
Florence (Dunning) Sikes (BA theater ’55, MA theater ’60) dedicated her life to helping others achieve success in theater and performance. Sikes — who died in July 2009 — was so passionate about her vocation that she donated a portion of her estate to DU’s theater department to support the […]
University of Denver Center for Colorado’s Economic Future sees shortfalls, budgetary gaps
As president of RBC Daniels, Brad Busse (BS ’80) stays pretty busy. He’s one of the most seasoned investment bankers in the world of telecommunications and has completed some of the industry’s most significant transactions. But he still finds time to make an imprint where it’s needed. “I felt I […]
Online teaching isn’t new. But it conventionally has been targeted toward nontraditional students or used when a professor can’t be in the classroom. At the University of Denver, the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) has a different approach. Through a pilot program, the center is helping professors set up […]
On Sept. 11, 2001, DU lost three of its own in the deadliest terrorist attack ever on American soil: Kathryn (LaBorie) Yancey-Salazar (attd. ’77) was a flight attendant on United Flight 175, which hit the south tower of the World Trade Center; Robert Ploger III (BA ’65) and Mari-Rae Sopper […]
A paralyzed woman walked across the stage, a pair of poets rapped about making their voices heard, and four masked men created a world of sound on an enormous marimba. As emcee Hilary Blair said, “It’s a very TEDxDU kind of day.” Scientists, inventors, spiritual leaders, students and teachers dazzled […]
Beware the restaurants claiming to be authentic New York delis, says Al Belsky. Most of them aren’t. “You travel all over the country and you go to different cities and [you see places that] say ‘New York deli’ and they’re not, they’re always crap,” says Belsky (BSBA ’72), owner of […]
Bryan Welch (BA English ’81) says people should cut pessimism out of their lives and practice positive visualization to achieve happiness, abundance and sustainability. Welch says people have a responsibility to create a sustainable world for themselves and for future generations. The key to accomplishing this, he says, is for […]
Throughout any basketball season, there are countless moments when the pressure mounts and the intensity flares to red-hot levels. It is during these moments — perhaps as the final seconds are ticking away in a tightly contested game, or as the head coach gathers his troops to design a climactic […]
“Where were you when you heard?” It’s a phrase every generation knows. Everyone has experienced a national tragedy where the Earth seemingly stood still as feelings of horror, disbelief and fear set in. Years later, people can tell you exactly where they were when they heard the news. In the […]
For four decades, DU chemistry Professor Donald Stedman has collected, analyzed and categorized just about everything that comes out of passenger vehicle tailpipes. He’s logged tens of thousands of emissions samples from every manner of car, motorcycle and small truck as they whizzed by his ever-present emission detection tools […]
Concussion expert Kim Gorgens is helping young athletes keep their heads in the game.
Mystery solved Thank you to John Vaccaro (BA ’59, MA ’64) of Escondido, Calif.; Sterling Nelson (BSBA ’56, MBA ’71) of Evergreen, Colo.; and Don Cushing (BA ’56, MA ’62) of Highlands Ranch, Colo., who wrote in to identify the football players who appeared in the photo on page 51 […]