“We do not torture.” In the years before Sept. 11, 2001, most Americans could read that statement, bypass the box marked “False” and check the one labeled “True.” And then came Abu Ghraib. “Abu Ghraib disrupted everything,” says Jared Del Rosso, assistant professor of sociology and author of the recently […]
In winter 2014, CWC announced its intention to change its model from a traditional stand-alone college for women. Academic programs and curriculum at the college will continue through the 2015–16 academic year, after which CWC will transition to a new educational support model still in development.
“The students from South have the opportunity to learn how to use media to make a difference in their community, and the University of Denver students have the opportunity to work with a very diverse community that represents the future demographics of the Denver area and beyond.”
In addition to his teaching, Ali Besharat, an assistant professor of marketing at the Daniels College of Business, studies consumer behavior. Combining his interest in consumer decision making and marketing communications and branding, Besharat’s work has been widely published in academic journals and popular media outlets, from the Journal of […]
Alumni and faculty writers — including historical novelist Sandra Dallas and Kristen Iversen, author of the Colorado Book Award-winning “Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats” — will take part in “Book Chat at the Book Stack,” one of several new additions to this year’s […]
The 2015 Denver Startup Week (DSW), the nation’s largest gathering of business and tech entrepreneurs, featured a stronghold of successful alumni from the University of Denver’s Daniels College of Business. The event ran from Sept. 28 to Oct. 2 in various venues downtown and in Denver’s RiNo district. Erik Mitisek […]
At the University of Denver’s Human Dynamics Lab — part of the Daniel Felix Ritchie School of Engineering and Computer Science — researchers are combining science and sports to create a new way to look at human movement and the role it plays in injury and recovery. See more […]
“No soy de aquí, ni soy de allá. (I’m not from here, nor from there).” The above sentence is a common phrase uttered by second-generation Latinos living in the United States. These individuals often feel that that they fit in with neither American society nor the country of their parents. […]
Thanks to Global Dental Relief (GDR) and three University of Denver alumni, kids around the world can smile a little easier. The Denver-based nonprofit, which provides free dental care to children, benefits from the leadership skills and passion of three graduates of the master’s program at the Josef Korbel School […]
Mary Sue Coleman, a member of the University of Denver board of trustees, was named this week as the new president of the Association of American Universities (AAU), effective June 1, 2016. Coleman, a national leader on higher education and science issues, served as chair of the association in 2011-12. […]
More than 10,000 local business and tech entrepreneurs descended on downtown Denver this week for Denver Startup Week, an annual free event that offers classes, panels, workshops, keynotes and networking events to the local entrepreneurial community. The University of Denver Magazine sat down with Barbara Kreisman, associate dean of executive […]
University College student Mark Butler is one of 10 students around the nation — and the first from the University of Denver — to be awarded a scholarship from the Alpha Sigma Lambda Honor Society, a group dedicated to adult learners in continuing higher education. For the 2015–16 awards, Alpha […]
It’s no secret that the University of Denver’s study abroad program often has an incredible impact on the lives of participating students. For alumna Erin Shaw, studying abroad was the first step in finding a cause about which she was passionate. “I studied abroad in Uganda; I went there with […]