With fanfare from the pep band accompanied by cheerleaders and dancers, University of Denver students, faculty, staff and alumni celebrated Presidents’ Day by unveiling the logo for the Oct. 3 presidential debate and cranking up the countdown clock. Only 226 days until DU hosts the first presidential debate ever in […]
Be part of the excitement: The University of Denver will start its countdown clock to the Oct. 3 presidential debate — the first presidential debate ever held in Colorado and the first debate of the 2012 presidential election — at noon Monday (Presidents’ Day) at Sidelines Pub in the Driscoll […]
Donna Wickham’s musical career is hitting some high notes. Last fall she released two CDs in one month, and both are getting rave reviews. Wickham (BM ’00, MM ’03), a DU alumna who heads up the vocal jazz program at the Lamont School of Music, celebrated the release of a […]
If Long Beach, Calif., is too far to travel for the sold-out TED2012 conference, take heart: DU will live stream a full day of the five-day “conference of ideas” from 9 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Feb. 29 in the commons at Ruffatto Hall. Devoted to “ideas worth spreading” and bringing together luminaries […]
The University of Denver, under the leadership of the Center for Multicultural Excellence, is conducting an inclusive excellence assessment. The survey is designed to gather baseline data about the campus climate surrounding issues of diversity, inclusion and equity on campus. Inclusive excellence is the recognition that a community or institution’s […]
Colorado Supreme Court Justice Brian Boatright will deliver the address at the May 19 Commencement ceremonies for the Sturm College of Law. Boatright, a 1988 DU law graduate, was appointed to the Supreme Court by Gov. John Hickenlooper. He was sworn in on Nov. 21. Prior to joining the Supreme […]
Be part of the excitement: The University of Denver will start its countdown clock to the Oct. 3 presidential debate — the first presidential debate ever held in Colorado and the first debate of the 2012 presidential election — at noon Monday (Presidents’ Day) at Sidelines Pub in the Driscoll […]
The men’s basketball team returns home for its final three regular-season games, beginning with Louisiana-Lafayette (ULL) on Thursday. The Pioneers, who have compiled an 18–8 record overall and are 8–5 in the Sun Belt Conference, were edged 72–71 in overtime by ULL at the Cajundome on Feb. 2, when Elfrid […]
Dozens of University of Denver students, faculty and staff made their way to the Ritchie Center Feb. 7–8 for a two-day “furniture fair,” helping to pick the pieces that will fill the Academic Commons. Participants got the chance to touch, sit on and examine more than 60 pieces of furniture, […]
In 2003, at the age of 49, Vickie Lynn Petrey discovered a lump in her breast. She had lost her medical insurance coverage when her husband retired, so she put off getting a diagnosis despite having visible signs of breast cancer. “I spent hours researching cancer resources and found the […]
The Playground Ensemble, artist-in-residence at DU’s Lamont School of Music, pays tribute to Polish composer Henryk Górecki in a concert on Feb. 15. The Playground is a group of professional musicians and composers dedicated to presenting classical music as a living art form. Through its varied outreach programs, the Playground […]
Moses Brewer is an institution in Denver and around the country, a one-name brand not unlike Beyonce, Plato, Bono and Oprah, says colleague and friend Sylvia Cordy, a PR executive who knows branding. “People don’t say ‘Moses Brewer,’ they say ‘Moses.’ He’s built that kind of reputation,” she says. “Whenever […]
Fresh from a fight to stall an industrial-scope art project on environmentally sensitive lands, students at the University of Denver’s Environmental Law Clinic learned Feb. 9 they had successfully fended off a proposed logging operation that threatened a national forest and the headwaters of the Rio Grande. The clinic at […]
“I gotta go watch plays,” says Jim Wishmier, sounding like a theater critic anticipating another night of drama. He will see drama, all right—compelling acting, plaintive expressions and emotional outbursts from an ensemble cast that might include the likes of Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and Kevin Durant. Indeed, the plays […]
The journey across the ocean Juho Olkinuora made last summer en route to the University of Denver does not begin to compare to his odyssey since joining the Pioneers hockey program. In just a few whirlwind months, Olkinuora, a freshman goaltender from Finland, has evolved from a last-minute insurance policy […]