David Sapia (BSBA ’91, MHS ’98) has found a shortcut to health and happiness: “Don’t let your career rule your world.” Sapia takes his shortcut on a motocross dirt bike—he plays hard and rides harder. At 45, Sapia admits he’s one of the older riders racing on the dusty and […]
Henry Dallal (BSBA ’77) offers advice that is clear and simple: “Travel and appreciate a more global culture. The world is big. Experience it in all its shapes and forms.” It’s advice he has clearly followed himself, and he’s done so with a keen eye. Along his path around the […]
Brent Petrie (BA geography ’72) makes life better for people. An example: When people in remote Alaskan villages flip on their lights, they may have Petrie to thank. He’s one of the folks behind the scenes getting people electricity — sometimes for the very first time in their lives. And […]
DU’s library and athletics department are teaming up to tackle a huge archival project: digitizing thousands of sports-related photos, videos, electronic media broadcasts, press releases, statistics, rosters and other documents. Diane Wendt, director of strategic partnerships and corporate relations at DU, says the goal is to organize, archive and preserve […]
Eva Magdalenski loves to laugh. And that’s perfect — because now she gets to laugh, even at work — especially at work. And oh, what a cool job that is. Magdalenski, a DU senior who will graduate with a bachelor’s degree in business administration on Aug.15, handles publicity at Comedy Works, […]
Talk about getting watched over at work. In August hundreds of thousands of people will be watchingChad Rogers (BA ’99) in his job as a Realtor to the rich and famous in Southern California. Rogers will appear on a Bravo show called Million Dollar Listing that features him and two other […]
It’s interesting that Mary Dolan-Hogrefe (MA ’96) was born in 1968 — a year fraught with civil unrest over the Vietnam War — given her current career path. “Some of my earliest memories are of hearing about the war,” Dolan-Hogrefe says. Today, 40 years later, Dolan-Hogrefe has been named to […]
Henry Dallal (BSBA ’77) offers advice that is clear and simple: “Travel and appreciate a more global culture. The world is big. Experience it in all its shapes and forms.” It’s advice he has clearly followed himself, and he’s done so with a keen eye. Along his path around the […]
It’s not often a person can claim to have linked two countries together, but Jim Wagenlander (BA ’70) is an exception. He’s one of the key people behind the tighter bonds the United States is now enjoying with Mongolia. In 1989, he and his Denver law firm, Wagenlander & Heisterkamp […]
For the last six years, Caryn Aviv, a Judaic Studies lecturer at DU, has been working with researchers to improve breast cancer survivors’ quality of life. Aviv and researchers from San Francisco State University and California Pacific Medical Center are wrapping up a study this year that includes 165 participants and explores […]
Mujda Amini (BA economics, political science ’01) believes education is a way to achieve peace in the world. And she believes it enough to act — by raising funds to build libraries in Afghanistan. Her first library will go up this summer in the small, rural town of Chooqdakh, Afghanistan, […]
Before Darl Bien, a former DU professor in the physics department, died of cancer in 2004, Dennis Wittmer told him he’d keep a tradition alive that Bien had started: An annual student trip to Scandinavian countries. “I became so persuaded by the value of the trip and I wanted him […]
Eric Spengler is one active supporter of Barack Obama — emphasis on active. In May 2007, Spengler was named state director of Students for Barack Obama (SFBO) in Colorado, where he enlisted 3,200 students to support the campaign. But the DU student says he’s been interested in politics for a […]
When Rich Rockwell lands in Athens, Greece, in June, he says he can’t wait to walk around the area where Socrates taught. “To be there and soak it in after all I’ve studied about ancient Greece will be incredible,” says Rockwell, a graduate student in international studies who has taken […]
Several University of Denver students will be getting firsthand lessons this summer in how Vienna has become what some say is a showcase for solving the problems of globalization. Students will be traveling to the city as part of a course called Vienna: Religious and Social Justice, which is part […]