The University of Denver has unveiled a new Graduate School of International Studies program that awards a certificatein humanitarian assistance. The program teaches students the practical aspects of disaster relief, development, conflict resolution, global politics, and humanitarian and human rights practice, according to Peter Van Arsdale, senior lecturer and the program’s […]
You could sum up John Rodenberg’s (MBA ’71) relationship with tennis like this: 40-Love. He’s been with the sport nearly 40 years and still loves it. It all started back in the late ’60s when he took tennis in a physical education class while an undergraduate at Montana State University. […]
Philanthropy may not be the typical use for an MBA, but for Leslie Howard (MBA ’03), it’s working out just fine. She regularly taps what she learned from the degree to run the Gary and Leslie Howard Family Foundation, an organization she and her husband, now both retired from the […]
Sometimes a college student’s career path can take a slippery turn. Take Doug Frank (BA ’76), for example. He chose the University of Denver back in the 1970s planning to attend the DU law school after his undergraduate work. He didn’t know it then, but there was something outside of […]
When Martin Mendelsberg (MFA ’72) was 10 growing up in Denver near First Avenue and Grape Street, horrifying images leapt from the television screen and seared their way into his mind: the Nuremberg crimes. “It scared the hell out of me,” says Mendelsberg. “I sat there not believing it or […]
What do you do when you lose a leg to cancer? If you’re Lacey Henderson, first, you learn to walk again, and then you start skiing, snowboarding, yoga, rock climbing, running track and playing volleyball and soccer. Then you top it all off with collegiate cheerleading. “After I learned to […]
The guy’s a wall. And to see what he does to other teams you only have to look as far as the last letter of his last name — o as in zero. That’s the score squad after squad has to settle for when they face DU’s standout senior goalie […]
There’s little doubt dejected opponents of DU’s hockey team leave the ice with images of Peter Mannino’s helmet seared into their troubled minds. If anything, the DU standout goalie’s head gear is memorable, artful and nearly as busy as Mannino is when he’s fending off flurries of pucks in a […]
A few weeks ago Gabriel Elizondo (MA ’03) was in northern Brazil investigating the story of a 15-year-old girl who was jailed in a cell with 20 men and raped repeatedly. In August, he covered the biggest earthquake to hit Peru in three decades. And in October, he was reporting […]
One of DU’s newest student organizations is up and walking on its own two feet in its journey to educate children in Africa. Building Tomorrow (BT) is a nonprofit organization that gives college students resources to raise money to build schools in sub-Saharan Africa. DU’s chapter is armed with a […]
When alpine skiing head coach Andy LeRoy drives the school van to the mountains, he often hears chatter behind him in up to six languages. “It gets pretty interesting,” he says. “I can hear a little German, some French and some Italian.” LeRoy’s not alone. Other DU coaches can share […]
When Ray Maestas sat at his father’s deathbed in 1996, his dad told him something he’d never forget. “He told me not to waste my life and to work to make a difference in the world,” Maestas says. And by all measures, Maestas (MSW ’98) has taken his father’s advice. […]
Philanthropy may not be the typical use for an MBA, but for Leslie Howard (MBA ’03), it’s working out just fine. She regularly taps what she learned from the degree to run the Gary and Leslie Howard Family Foundation, an organization she and her husband, now both retired from the […]
You could sum up John Rodenberg’s (MBA ’71) relationship with tennis like this: 40-Love. He’s been with the sport nearly 40 years and still loves it. It all started back in the late ’60s when he took tennis in a physical education class while an undergraduate at Montana State University. […]
Don’t judge Chase Squires until you walk a mile — no, scratch that — until you run 100 miles in his shoes. Squires, a senior public affairs specialist in the University Communications department and a journalist for 19 years, came to DU in 2006 after leaving a job with The […]