It had to be. Joe Riche (MFA ’00) becoming an artist, that is. At age 4 he was already grasping some of the finer points of art — at his grandmother’s house. She had a small replica sculpture of the Greek goddess Venus — you know, without the arms. “I […]
The image of flood waters washing away highways, homes and businesses this fall is seared into the memories of many in Colorado. The state has suffered its share of disasters over the last couple of years – fires and floods chief among them. Yet renewal blooms. Within weeks of the […]
The image of flood waters washing away highways, homes and businesses this fall is seared into the memories of many in Colorado. The state has suffered its share of disasters over the last couple of years – fires and floods chief among them. Yet renewal blooms. Within weeks of the […]
Jokes about lawyers are well-documented. Jokes from lawyers — that’s a different story. Actually, that’s this story. Meet Troy Walker (JD ’11), a lawyer who tells jokes — for a living. He’d been joking around long before he entered the University of Denver Sturm College of Law in 2008. “I’ve […]
This profile could have ended up very differently. It could have been about a guy who was so successful early in his career that he just spent his days in the mountains doing what he loved: fly fishing. But it was not to be. Gene Tang (BSBA ’71, MBA ’75) […]
When Jamie Stanton learned he’d won the University of Denver’s Willy Schaeffler Scholarship, he was on his way to do something you might not expect a young man with just one leg to do. “I was in my car picking up a friend to go wakeboarding,” says Stanton. Actually, Stanton […]
When Jamie Stanton learned he’d won the University of Denver’s Willy Schaeffler Scholarship, he was on his way to do something you might not expect a young man with just one leg to do. “I was in my car picking up a friend to go wakeboarding,” says Stanton. Actually, Stanton […]
Mike Kemp hasn’t officially graduated yet, but he’s already running out of shelf space for all the awards he’s taken home. Kemp, who earned a dual undergraduate degree last year in international business and economics from the University of Denver and will get his MBA from the Daniels College of […]
The French poet Charles Baudelaire once said, “Inspiration comes of working every day.” If that’s true, Jillian Neilson will have no problem with inspiration as she embarks on her career in art. “I’ve never had less than two jobs at any given time for the past nine years,” says the […]
Donna Wickham’s musical career is hitting some high notes. Last fall she released two CDs in one month, and both are getting rave reviews. Wickham (BM ’00, MM ’03), a DU alumna who heads up the vocal jazz program at the Lamont School of Music, celebrated the release of a […]
Even though she enjoyed her time growing up outside of Boston, Mass., Stephanie Lowe has for many years felt a pull from across the Atlantic. More specifically that pull, she has since learned, was coming from Germany. “I remember when I was in middle school and high school, my family […]
When Fred Hadley (BS engineering ’52) was a senior, he walked around the University of Denver campus with his 16mm camera shooting nearly 38 minutes of black and white footage. About 10 months ago, a friend helped him convert it from film to digital, and they put it on the […]
Cole Moriarty drove 40 hours last August in his 2007 Chevy Trailblazer from his home in western Massachusetts to start his freshman year at the University of Denver. But his real journey to get to DU took about four years. When Moriarty was a sophomore in high school, he was […]
Jen Newman says it was the best day of her life. It was April 26, 2011. She was about to clock in for her evening shift at a Chick-fil-A in Federal Heights, Colo., when her phone rang. “It was my high school counselor calling to tell me I’d just won […]
Rebecca (King) Dreman (JD ’77) is a former Miss Colorado who was named Miss America in 1974. But today she’s more like a boxer in a knock-down, drag-out fight — a fight for her life. In September 2010, after she felt a marshmallow-like lump in her arm, doctors gave her […]