Archive for May, 2013

Men’s tennis team advances to NCAA championship

The University of Denver men’s tennis team will open the 2013 NCAA Men’s Tennis Championship against No. 15 seed Florida on Friday, May 10, at a time to be announced. The Pioneers will make their third NCAA championship appearance after earning an automatic bid and their first NCAA bid since […]

Biology team works to help those with genetic diseases

Biology team works to help those with genetic diseases

At the University of Denver’s Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (ERI), founded in 1961 to conduct pioneering biomedical and genetic research, undergraduate and graduate students partner with world-renowned scholars in a quest to unravel the mysteries of disease. For Nathan Duval, a PhD candidate in biological sciences, that quest has personal significance. […]

Former senator Olympia Snowe to talk congressional gridlock at Bridges to the Future

More than five months since she left her 34-year-long U.S. congressional career, former Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) frequently finds herself answering the same question from people from all walks of life: How did it get this bad? Congress hasn’t always been quite this dysfunctional, notes Snowe, who in February 2012 […]

Michael Bennet will be Sturm College of Law Commencement speaker

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colorado, will deliver the Commencement address to the University of Denver Sturm College of Law on May 18 at Magness Arena. Bennet also will receive an honorary doctor of laws degree. “We are extremely pleased that Sen. Bennet will give our commencement address,” says Martin Katz, […]