DU’s Daniels College of Business recently named James O’Toole, author of The Executive Compass(Oxford University Press, 1995), the inaugural Daniels Chair in Ethics.  O’Toole will help lead the Daniels Compass, a new initiative within the College’s graduate business programs designed to provide students with the ethical foundation needed to make decisions in […]

On an overcast, drizzly September day at Camp Hale near Leadville, Colo. — where soldiers of the 10th Mountain Division trained during World War II — a group of Daniels College of Business MBA students walked in the footsteps of history while making some of their own. They were the […]

Director James Cameron has one. So does Fox News Channel. And, now students at the University of Denver School of Communication have six new top-of-the-line cameras. The Panasonic camera, called a P2 based HVX200, is a hit in the film, broadcast and education fields because it is one of few […]

Growing up in Texas, Jessica Dale started cheerleading in junior high school, but that’s not why she spends 10 hours a week volunteering at Cheer Central, a competitive cheerleading program in Broomfield.  Dale also is a University of Denver student pursing a Master of Arts in Sport and Performance Psychology (MASPP). […]

For the first time this fall, the Center for Judaic Studies’ ALEPH Institute for Jewish Culture is offering courses through the Enrichment Program at DU’s University College. Three new ALEPH courses are among the offerings. Named after the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, the ALEPH Institute seeks to explore Jewish culture […]

Inhaling, or “huffing,” the vapors of common household solvents strongly correlates with suicidal thoughts and behavior among adolescents. That’s what researchers found in a study of 723 incarcerated youth — the first work to categorize inhalant use into levels of severity and to relate this to suicidal ideas and suicide […]

What’s business got to do with sailing?  Plenty, at the University of Denver’s Daniels College of Business.  Students in the school’s executive master’s in business administration (EMBA) program are learning how to better navigate the wavy waters of business by sailing in the waters off the coast of San Diego. Just […]

DU’s Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS) has received a $7.45 million gift from investor-philanthropist Frederick Pardee to support and expand the school’s International Futures program.  The gift will be used to create the Frederick S. Pardee Center for International Futures at GSIS, funding its endowment and operating costs from 2008 […]

Anne DePrince, an assistant professor in DU’s Department of Psychology, wants to change the phenomenon of revictimization — a victim of violent crime being victimized again. A 1995 British Crime Survey found that 3 percent of adult victims accounted for 73 percent of violent crime victimizations.  “Our ultimate hope is to […]

After seven years of research, countless hours of methodical calculations and experiment, and some nights spent in his lab on a gurney converted into a makeshift cot, molecular biology Professor Phil Danielson says this could be the year. This could be the year Danielson and his team of students and researchers […]

From Buffy the Vampire Slayer to pharmacology, incoming DU students will spend their fall delving deeply into a variety of topics in First-Year Seminars. The fall courses are the start of the First Year Inquiry and Writing sequence required of all entering students.  “Every university needs some mechanism for assisting students […]

DU’s Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning (CCESL) recently established a new partnership that will provide DU Spanish language students an opportunity to use their skills as they also explore a vibrant culture right in their own backyard. The new partner is Intercambio de Comunidades, Interchange of Communities, and the students […]

For the fifth year in a row, DU’s Daniels College of Business has been ranked among the top business schools by The Wall Street Journal. According to The Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive 2007 rankings of graduate business schools released Sept. 17, Daniels was rated No. 7 in the world for producing students with strong […]

Jewish culture will come alive through music, sounds, sermons, theater and language during “Shema,” an eight-month program starting in October at DU. Organizers of the program — co-sponsored by Hillel of Colorado and DU’s Center for Judaic Studies (CJS) — hope it will encourage young Jews in particular to learn more […]

Instead of lying by a pool relaxing this summer, 26 DU graduate students traveled to post-conflict areas in Eastern Europe to work with organizations that provide psychosocial services to trauma-effected communities. The summer internship is a requirement of students obtaining a master’s degree in International Disaster Psychologyat DU’s Graduate School of […]