Articles written by: Kate Johnson

Author reminds audience that diamonds have consequences

Author Greg Campbell reminded his audience of the human tragedy and suffering that can underlie some of our most valued possessions. Campbell, the author of Blood Diamonds (Westview Press, 2002), presented the Penrose Library/Provost’s Annual Author’s Lecture on April 20 in DU’s Driscoll Ballroom. Campbell described his experiences researching and […]

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Wheelchair-bound actress Regan Linton joins a new PHAMALY

Wheelchair-bound actress Regan Linton joins a new PHAMALY

The accident that nearly ended Regan Linton’s life has instead transformed it. In 2002, when Linton was a junior in college, she was in a car accident that caused an upper-chest-level spinal cord injury. Though people sometimes find her perspective hard to understand, Linton — who uses a wheelchair for […]

Finding her voice on stage

When Regan Linton was a junior in college, she was in a car accident that caused an upper-chest-level spinal cord injury; she will have to use a wheelchair for the rest of her life. The experience ultimately led her to star in a wildly successful local production of Man of […]

DU student helps disconnect dots between crime and homelessness

When Denver enacted a new law against panhandling, Megan Gall decided to test it with new technology. Gall, a master’s candidate in Geographic Information Science (GIS) from Charleston, W.Va., became one of the first researchers in the U.S. to use computer-assisted mapping to evaluate the effectiveness of anti-panhandling laws. Working together […]

Engineering professor sends robots to the rescue

Years from now, robots the size of soda cans will crawl through the rubble after a disaster to find trapped people.  The robots will search for survivors by sensing carbon dioxide and oxygen. They’ll measure the respiration, oxygenation, temperature and pulse of the people they find and then transmit that […]

Music and theatre departments come together for Cabaret

When Cabaret opens Thursday at the Newman Center for the Performing Arts it will mark the first collaboration between DU’s Department of Theatre and Lamont School of Music. The 1966 musical portrays a romance between a British cabaret singer and an American writer in 1930s Berlin, where residents of the city […]

Ghanaian alum helps develop African microenterprises

Ghanaian alum helps develop African microenterprises

In northern Ghanaian villages, women tend bees and make ceramic pots, generating products for the microbusinesses they established with the help of DU’s Ziblim Abukari.

Social Work alumnus builds microbusinesses in Ghana

In northern Ghanaian villages, women tend bees and throw pots, generating products for the microbusinesses they established with the help of DU doctoral student and alumnus Ziblim Abukari. Abukari, who was the first person in his family to have any formal education, saw the affect he could have on “the […]

Technology sends DU archaeologists around the globe

In 2005 alone, Larry Conyers searched for military and ancient graves in Hawaii, mapped tortoise burrows in central Florida, investigated a former settlement in New York’s Central Park, analyzed the La Brea tar pits and researched 5,000-year-old pit-house villages on the Oregon coast. Plus, he worked on sites in Scotland, […]