Jim Nicholson has built his career around one thing — service to country.

“Careful to get my spit curls in the right place.” “When I was a stewardess back then, pilots got quite friendly.” Sarah Gjertson pans her camera in on a white-haired woman smiling under the hair dryer hood at the laughter and chatter of her beauty parlor pals. During the last […]

In the world of knitting, Cheryl (Goughnour) Oberle is a rock star. The author of Folk Shawls and Folk Vests — standards in most knitters’ libraries — Oberle (BA ’77) is a meticulous designer of knitwear patterns, an exacting and time-consuming art that involves a deep understanding of fiber, mathematics […]

Pearl Harbor. JFK’s assassination. The Challenger disaster. 9/11. August 14, 1945, is another day seared into America’s collective memory. It’s the anniversary of the day Japan surrendered, formally ending World War II. “V-J Day was different,” recalls Antoinette “Toni” Hagener (BA ’46). “People were euphoric. It was a special occasion.” […]

Six close friends gathered at my birthday dinner and discussed death. Cemeteries, burial plots, and funeral arrangements, to be exact. Our funeral arrangements. We laughed uncomfortably and made some jokes. In the end, though, the consensus was that we did not want our kids to get stuck making funeral arrangements […]

Inside the imposing new School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management hang 23 prints. Ranging from colorful abstracts to elegiac landscapes, the temporary exhibit enlivens the grand public spaces of the hospitality school, offering guests a visual perk. It’s a diverse collection of work representing the efforts of some extraordinary […]

In most degree programs, students take required courses and choose from a stable of electives. Not so in DU’s Digital Media Studies (DMS) program, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. After learning the foundations of design, technical and critical approaches to digital media, DMS students are free to focus […]

After more than a year of construction, the finishing touches were put on Carnegie Green this summer. Located where the old Carnegie Library once stood, the green offers an expanse of lawn and perennial gardens stretching from University Hall west to the Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management (HRTM) building, and […]

Scientists at DU and the University of Colorado are revitalizing gene therapy research.

The fact that almost one in three Hispanic female high school students considers suicide motivated Lydia Prado (PhD psychology ’94) to create a suicide prevention program named Voz y Corazon — Spanish for voice and heart. in the current climate of negative stereotypes and low expectations of academic achievement,” Prado […]

Students, commuters and anyone else who has ever used a backpack knows how difficult it is to keep things organized while on the go. Ian Ivarson (BSBA ’04) realized there’s a better way. Ivarson created the “Ivar System” — soft shelves that keep books, papers and other necessities separate and […]

This June, more than 1,400 women will graduate from DU — nearly 57 percent of the graduating class. Things weren’t so different 120 years ago, when women comprised exactly half of the graduating class. The distinction was, in 1886 DU only graduated two students. Helen Fuller Officer was one of […]

In August, the University awarded an honorary degree to visiting scholar Xinzheng Zhang, the vice minister of education for the Peoples Republic of China. During his visit here, we talked at some length about the efforts that many U.S. universities are making to attract international students and scholars, build study-abroad […]

A DU panel recommends a painful prescription to maintain the state’s fiscal health.

Alumni Deena and Peter Hoagland have found healing in an unlikely place.