Archive for June, 2013

MBA student on his way to Tour de France

MBA student on his way to Tour de France

As he has nearly every summer since the late 1990s, Jonathan Vaughters is traveling to Europe this week for the Tour de France. This year, however, the former pro cyclist and current team manager will have to return to Denver halfway through the race — to deliver a class project […]

2013 Colorado Book Awards recognize three DU authors

Carolyn Mears, an adjunct faculty member at DU’s Morgridge College of Education, has won a 2013 Colorado Book Award for “Reclaiming School in the Aftermath of Trauma: Advice Based on Experiences” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), an anthology designed to guide educators through the process of moving on, emotionally and academically, in […]

Summer carillon concert series begins Sunday

Summer carillon concert series begins Sunday

Five nationally-known carillonneurs will visit the University of Denver this summer to perform on the 65-bell Williams Carillon for audiences spread out on the lawns surrounding the Daniel L. Ritchie Center for Sports and Wellness. Admission is free to all five performances. The Carillon Summer Concert Series opens at 7 […]

Avi Stopper talks to students in the Messy Startup class. Photo: Wayne Armstrong

‘Messy Startup’ class gives undergrads real-world business experience

Undergraduate students at the Daniels College of Business are getting a very real look into the hectic world of startups, thanks to Avi Stopper, founder and CEO of online youth and college sports network CaptainU. In the new Daniels class The Messy Startup, which launched spring quarter, Stopper gives students […]

Athletics students and staff reach 100 percent in annual giving

For the second consecutive year, the University of Denver Division of Athletics and Recreation has achieved its goal of 100 percent annual giving participation by its student-athletes and staff as a part of the All In Program. Attainment of last year’s goal was the first time the University Division reached […]

University of Denver marks dual $400 million milestones

The University of Denver recently surpassed $400 million in its ASCEND fundraising campaign, now the most successful fundraising campaign in the University’s history. Around the same time, the market value of the University’s endowment also exceeded $400 million, marking the first fiscal year in DU’s history in which the endowment […]

DU scores high on NCAA academic progress chart

All 17 University of Denver varsity sports teams earned a multiyear 2011–12 Academic Progress Rate (APR) of 956 or higher, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) released in its annual APR report. The Academic Progress Rate is a real-time measure of eligibility and retention of student-athletes competing on every Division […]

DU Pioneers take home fifth Directors’ Cup

The University of Denver reclaimed the top spot among NCAA Division I non-football schools by earning its record fifth Learfield Sports I-AAA Directors’ Cup over the last six years. The award was presented to Peg Bradley-Doppes, vice chancellor for athletics and recreation and Ritchie Center operations, at the annual National […]

Real estate students team up with Oakwood for home-building project

Real estate students team up with Oakwood for home-building project

As part of a long-standing partnership, students at the University of Denver Franklin L. Burns School of Real Estate and Construction Management have collaborated with a noted Colorado builder, Oakwood Homes, to construct three single-family model homes in Denver’s Green Valley Ranch neighborhood. For 17 years, the Burns School and […]

Denver mayor urges 2013 graduates to ‘pick up the torch’

Denver mayor urges 2013 graduates to ‘pick up the torch’

At Saturday’s undergraduate Commencement ceremony, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock called upon the Class of 2013 to go forth and change the world. “America is counting on you,” Hancock told the graduates at the ceremony in Magness Arena. “This nation yearns for new American heroes. We live in a world that […]

MBA student looks back on her DU experience

After graduating from the University of Denver in 2012 with a BA in marketing, Alexa Cain enrolled in the one-year MBA program at the Daniels College of Business. She graduates from that program June 6. As an undergraduate, Cain worked on the 2012 presidential debate that took place on campus. […]

Denver Law to Launch Experiential Advantage Curriculum This Fall

This fall the University of Denver Sturm College of Law will launch its new Experiential Advantage Curriculum, which will allow students to spend a full year of their law school career in real or simulated practice settings. By the time they graduate, students will have a year’s worth of legal […]

Documentary film students screen their final projects Thursday

Undergraduate and graduate students in the Documentary Film and Video Production II class in the Department of Media, Film and Journalism Studies have spent the spring quarter conceiving, pitching, filming and editing short documentaries on a variety of topics. The teams present their final products Thursday, June 6, in Davis […]

Political science graduate aims to take on the achievement gap

Political science graduate aims to take on the achievement gap

Senior political science major Craig Hirokawa has devoted much of his extracurricular time serving the student body, first as the social sciences senator in Undergraduate Student Government and then as president of the Student Advisory Council (SAC). It’s been his way of creating change and opportunities for students in the […]

Art Professor Lawrence Argent adds big red rabbit to list of public art projects

Art Professor Lawrence Argent adds big red rabbit to list of public art projects

No one has ever accused Lawrence Argent of being a miniaturist. A renowned sculptor and DU faculty member celebrated for his public art projects, Argent is known nationwide for I See What You Mean, the massive, 40-foot-tall blue bear that peers into the Colorado Convention Center in downtown Denver. In […]