The University of Denver ski team has won its 23rd national championship after completing competition at the 2016 NCAA Championships in Steamboat Springs, Colo. this past week. Denver finished first overall in the team standings with 567.5 points, ahead of the University of Colorado (491.5) and the University of Utah […]
A graduate of Northglenn High School in north Denver, Rory Moore considers his University of Denver education a ticket to a better life. Moore’s father didn’t live at home, and his mother suffers from short-term memory loss, so he and his sister were essentially raised by their grandparents. From a […]
Denver real estate developer John Madden has donated a collection of 120 artworks valued at $10 million to the University of Denver. The new Madden Collection at the University of Denver includes artworks by artists ranging from pioneering Western painters Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran to American masters Thomas Hart […]
Beginning in 1982 as a small program with little staff, the University of Denver’s Learning Effectiveness Program (LEP) has grown into an internationally recognized service with more than 200 students enrolled each year. LEP is a fee-based program that provides academic support to DU students with learning disabilities. “What sets […]
The field of cybersecurity is growing at an extraordinary rate, but there are not enough cybersecurity professionals to meet the demand. In Colorado alone, there currently are 12,000 unfilled cybersecurity jobs. Nationally, there are expected to be 1.5 million unfilled positions by 2019. Understanding the mounting need to fill these […]
At the first-ever Founders Formal on March 3, about 400 undergraduate students came together to make merry and enjoy the music of the Denver-based Jakarta Band. All photos by Wayne Armstrong
Sheila Schroeder knew there were alumni of the DU film program working in Denver who were not always creatively inspired by their work. And she knew those alumni would make great mentors for current film students working toward careers of their own. So, armed with a CAMF (creative arts and […]
University of Denver Chancellor Rebecca Chopp today announced that DU alumnus and local entrepreneur Erik Mitisek (BS ’99) will return to the University as executive director of the new Project X-ITE, effective April 1. Project X-ITE, which launched in late 2015, serves as an interdisciplinary hub for projects at the […]
A two-day celebration of the University of Denver’s founding in 1864 came to a close Thursday night with the Founders Formal — a student dance on campus — and the Founders Gala, a festive event at the Sheraton Denver Downtown that honored longtime DU supporters Robert and Judi Newman, Donald […]
Part of the University of Denver’s expanded two-day Founders Celebration — which includes a campus lunch event and a gala dinner and awards ceremony — the Founders Forum brought 250 students, faculty, staff and community members to the Cable Center Wednesday afternoon to learn about the work of five faculty […]
The University of Denver’s Student Life department, which provides non-academic services, support resources and opportunities for DU students, was one of 19 such departments at universities around the country to be named to the list of the “Most Promising Places to Work in Student Affairs” by the Center for Higher […]
Donald Stedman — professor emeritus of chemistry and biochemistry and the researcher behind pioneering technology to gauge vehicle emissions — has been honored with the Haagen-Smit Clean Air Award. The award, notes Andrei Kutateladze, dean of DU’s Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, is one of the most prestigious “in […]