“Pioneering Innovation Through Inclusion: What Do You DU?” That’s the theme of this year’s Diversity Summit for Inclusive Excellence, scheduled for May 3–4. “We want to challenge people to not just talk about what it means to be an inclusive leader, but to challenge themselves to ask, on a daily […]
DU’s Center for World Languages and Cultures (CWLC) has a new program for students who want to learn foreign languages not otherwise offered at DU, such as Swahili and Korean. The Directed Independent Language Study (DILS) program started winter quarter and is open to undergraduate and graduate students at DU. […]
Artist John Fielder has spent a lifetime photographing the Colorado wilderness — drifting on rivers through remote canyons, gazing across family ranches at towering mountains. Through observation, Fielder said he came to recognize something: It’s all interconnected. Everything in the world depends on something else. And, he concluded, it won’t […]
The University of Denver in 2012 ranked No. 1 among colleges and universities participating in the Peace Corps’ Paul D. Coverdell Fellows graduate school program, with 77 returned Peace Corps volunteers enrolled as graduate students at DU, Peace Corps Director Aaron Williams announced earlier this month. The Coverdell Fellows program […]
When Thomas Cohen bought the film rights to David James Duncan’s 1983 cult novel The River Why in the mid-’80s, he had no idea it would take more than 20 years to bring it to the screen. But thanks to Cohen’s wife, Kristi Denton Cohen (BA ’74), the movie finally […]
The students at DU’s Ricks Center for Gifted Children have made community service a learning priority. On April 17-18, more than 35 students participated in the Kids Who Share Fair, held in the front lobby of the center. The students shared information on 14 different community organizations, including Metro Denver […]
The University of Denver’s Bridges to the Future lecture series continues April 24 with a keynote presentation by Ray Suarez, author of The Holy Vote: The Politics of Faith in America. The event will be held from 7–8 p.m. at the Gates Concert Hall in the Newman Center for the […]
When new teachers venture into their first classrooms, they rely on a set of core competencies to help them educate their students. If these novice teachers are deficient in any of these competencies — classroom management, say, or using assessments to shape instruction — their students may stumble and fall […]
Environmental author Auden Schendler and nationally known Colorado landscape photographer John Fielder will headline this year’s University of Denver Earth Day Summit on April 20. Sponsored by DU’s Sustainability Council and Environmental Team and the Institute for Public Policy, the free event will include breakout sessions with Tom McGee, DU’s […]
Lamont students have been working hard the past few weeks to put together their second full-length opera this academic year. The fall production of Faust has many eager to hear more from the Opera Theatre Program and the Lamont Symphony Orchestra. The spring opera, Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, runs […]
In 1928, a Cherokee man was murdered in southeastern Kentucky. He was just one of hundreds of thousands of Native Americans killed in America since Columbus arrived. But he was also the great-grandfather of Bill Stratton. “He was a victim of racial violence. That was not something I knew about […]
Daniels College of Business alumna Dafna Michaelson will be the keynote speaker at the 17th annual DU Women’s Conference April 20. In 2009 Michaelson (MBA ’01) traveled across the country to all 50 states in search of Americans with a drive to solve community problems. Sixty-five percent of the people […]
North Korea’s leadership, for all its stubborn self-assuredness, may have just made a monumental error, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said April 13 at the University of Denver. Speaking before a large crowd packed into the Cable Center, Albright said the hermit nation’s defiant April test launch of a […]
When Gay Carlson and Kim Hammond’s upper primary students from DU’s Ricks Center for Gifted Children began their study of world cultures, they never imagined that their journey would be the beginning of a life changing experience. On April 9, the third and fourth grade class traveled more than 230 […]
In July, James Cryan’s application to open a charter school in Denver was approved by the Denver Public Schools (DPS) board. A month later, the 27-year-old earned an MBA in school leadership from the University of Denver. Cryan’s charter school, Rocky Mountain Prep, will be a rigorous academic preparation school […]