There is no “I” in Florence Roujas. In her first season as a Pioneer, the slalom and giant slalom standout won six races and was named DU Female Athlete of the Year. She earned All-America status after the 2005 NCAA championships in Vermont, where she helped DU to its 18th […]
As one of seven children and the first in his family to go to college, Fernando Guzman needed encouragement to go from picking walnuts to picking up a doctoral degree. He got that encouragement from his family, fellow migrant farm worker students and Chicano activists who provided a network of […]
The University of Denver was founded as Colorado Seminary in 1864 and was located at 14th and Arapahoe streets near what is now the Boettcher Concert Hall parking garage. The seminary was renamed the University of Denver in 1880, and shortly thereafter, University leaders began discussing a move. They felt […]
Presidential libraries always make me cry. And each time it happens, I find myself rather surprised. It happened again last summer when I drove from Denver to Little Rock, Ark., to visit Clinton’s library. En route I listened to Edmund Morris’ Theodore Rex, a nine-hour set of tapes on the […]
Before Vanessa Devereaux was crowned 2005 Colorado State Fair Fiesta Queen last April, she was asked to articulate the issues that burden and encumber the Latino community. Devereaux, a sophomore biochemistry major, delivered a bilingual speech in which she addressed the loss of culture and native language among American Latinos: […]
Her mother was a teacher, her sister is a principal, and two of her other siblings have been educators. It seems that for Cathy Grieve, MA ’72, PhD ’79, teaching may have been destiny. For more than 30 years, Grieve has fulfilled that destiny at DU. Grieve performs dual roles […]
Astronomy was one of the first disciplines taught at the University of Denver, and the program remains strong 125 years later. “Astronomy is one of the academic disciplines at DU nearly as old as the University itself,” says astronomy Associate Professor Robert Stencel. DU astronomy owes its start to Prof. […]
Earning a master’s degree in business management and going on to retire from a career as a training director for a bank system is a pretty good way round out a resume. At least that was what Jane Nielsen thought until she started taking courses through University College’s Enrichment Program, […]
Some professors are exceptional lecturers, holding sway over a classroom of students with an unerring command of facts, inspiring oratory and a touch of theatrics. Likewise, some students thrive under the traditional lecture hall format, readily absorbing the information presented and using it to compete with their classmates for the […]
This issue of the University of Denver Magazine contains articles about some of our wonderful current students and graduates, about some of the important research projects being pursued at the University and about our engagement with the Denver community. We read often these days about different definitions of academic quality, […]
Her lyrics may sound silly, but for alumna Katherine Dines, making children’s music is a serious pursuit.
DU researchers have some 350,000 wonderful reasons to study Down syndrome. They are the 350,000 Americans with the common yet baffling genetic disorder.
A few years ago, cell phones were considered a luxury. Today, they are thought of as a necessity and can be seen virtually everywhere. Students make calls between classes, fans text-message during hockey games and most DU Newman Center performances begin with an admonishment for patrons to silence their ringers. […]
Yemi Nicholson’s lean, towering frame emerges slowly from DU’s basketball locker room, his head barely clearing the door jam. A small smile spreads as his friendly, boyish face stares down with a calming sincerity. He extends a massive brown hand that’s warm, soft and the size of a baseball glove. […]
Unlike nouveau sports bars that morph into sushi bars, the Stadium Inn at 1701 E. Evans Ave. faces the future by embracing the past. Parked in a section of the DU neighborhood where a fast-food crowd comes to slurp noodles or create zeppelin-sized burritos, it is a relic from a […]