Archive for August, 2016

Daniels MBA student turns improv comedy into a business

Daniels MBA student turns improv comedy into a business

When Bruce Montgomery (EMBA ’13) was looking for a change in his current job, he wasn’t expecting to launch his own business. At the time, he was director of IT for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA), and he wanted to advance in his career. Moving up in […]

Summer 2016

Summer 2016

Special issue on DU IMPACT 2025 strategic plan

Winter 2016

Winter 2016

How DU is reinventing the student experience; Living and Learning Communities; meet the alums who founded Denver Startup Week

Fall 2015

Fall 2015

Lacrosse wins NCAA Championship; new center for the study of aging; the true importance of higher education

Spring 2015

Spring 2015

Founders Day honorees; study abroad; conservation social work in Kenya

Emergent Digital Practices student uses art to explore her MS diagnosis

In April 2009, Denver native Sarah Richter’s world was turned upside down. After experiencing bouts of severe vertigo, triple vision and fatigue for months, Richter was finally diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS). “Getting MS was a catalyst,” says Richter, a graduate student in DU’s emergent digital practices (EDP) program, a […]

Social sciences background enhances alumna’s career in geophysics

Tiffany Tchakirides (MA ’02) digs deeply into her work. Literally, and digitally. She works as an exploration and geophysics workflow advisor at Shell, one of the world’s leading oil and gas companies. Previously, she was a seismic processing geophysicist for Shell’s deepwater exploration imaging team in the Gulf of Mexico […]

DU experience takes alumnus to Oxford for debate, master’s degree

DU experience takes alumnus to Oxford for debate, master’s degree

After graduating in 2014 with dual degrees in philosophy and religious studies, Gabe Rusk returned to the University of Oxford — where he had studied abroad during his time at DU — to pursue a master’s degree in religious studies. In May, Rusk, who had been a member of the […]