Lauren Garan says she was “a stocky little gymnast” when she was last in Denver. That was during a brief visit in July, shortly after she received her MS in advertising management at DU and a few months before the ulcerative colitis she had dealt with for 12 years suddenly […]
Dubbed as the week that “changed the course of history,” former President Richard Nixon’s visit to China in February 1972 opened the door to the establishment of relations between the People’s Republic and the United States. The historic visit is chronicled in Assignment: China – The Week That Changed the […]
Although the U.S. presidential debate at DU is still months away, the University is gearing up with a slate of short, non-credit Enrichment Program courses to help people understand some of the issues at play in the 2012 election. Beginning with Moments in U.S. Economic History on Jan. 17, the […]
This weekend the Lamont Symphony Orchestra will collaborate with the Phoenix Youth Symphony, an organization internationally recognized as one of the premiere youth orchestras in the United States, for a concert of epic proportions. The Phoenix Youth Symphony will open the concert with Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty Suite, under the direction […]
A video of Ramona Pierson’s powerful talk at TEDxDU 2011 has been selected to appear on TED.com. Landing a feature spot on the TED site is a rare honor — of the thousands of talks submitted under the TEDx banner each year, less than 1 percent are published on TED.com. […]
The University of Denver’s Psychology Department is opening up a new therapy service focusing on helping military couples improve their relationships.
Terence Tarr was generous to his friends and displayed his gourmet cooking skills at dinner parties he co-hosted. He loved the opera, enjoyed gardening, rooted avidly for the Denver Broncos and helped breed five generations of Norwegian elk hounds. While certainly no penny pincher, Tarr was nonetheless rather frugal when […]
On, Jan 24, 1964, Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke at DU. He spoke before a crowd of 600 in the old Student Union Building (now the south end of the Driscoll Student Center) in an appearance sponsored by the local Shorter Community AME Church.
You won’t find recipes for Beefaroni or canned lasagna in Anna Boiardi’s new cookbook, Delicious Memories (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2011). Instead you’ll learn to make gourmet dishes like ravioli with ricotta and squash filling, cotechino with lentils, and baked fennel with butter and Parmesan. Boiardi (BA ’94), whose […]
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The National Collegiate Hockey Conference — the new eight-school Division I men’s hockey conference that will start play in the 2013–14 season — today announced veteran sports executive Jim Scherr will serve as its first commissioner. Scherr has more than 20 years in sports management leadership, including serving as chief […]
The University of Denver men’s ice hockey team faces off against the Alabama-Huntsville Chargers at 7:37 p.m. Jan. 6 at Magness Arena in the final nonconference series before the Pioneers start seven straight weekends of WCHA action. Chargers’ head coach Chris Luongo played at Michigan State from 1985–89 while Denver […]
Early on the morning of Sept. 8, which happened to be his 82nd birthday, Herman Motz collapsed in the bathroom of his Denver home. He was unconscious when the paramedics arrived. They detected no pulse or blood pressure and thought he had suffered a heart attack. Motz was taken to […]
A late-night food craving has turned into a business for Curt Hokanson. A 2010 graduate of the University of Denver, Hokanson launched HungryPioneers.com in September 2011 to help students and DU community members find and order food from area restaurants. The site offers a listing of area restaurants and links […]
Law Professor Arthur Best published a new book, Strategies and Techniques for Teaching Torts (Wolters Kluwer, 2011). Deborah Borman, visiting professor of law, co-presented “Teaching Legal Research: Free and Lower Fee Based Resources” at the University of Miami School of Law on Dec. 2, 2011. She also coordinated and moderated […]