The fourth annual New Beginnings Spring Powwow, held on Driscoll Green May 18, featured an Indian market, food, songs, dance and a special blanket ceremony honoring the 150th anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre. The Native Student Alliance (NSA) hosted the event with support from the Office of the Chancellor, […]
In honor of his transformative role in education reform, David Ethan Greenberg, vice chancellor of institutional partnerships at the University of Denver, has received the Bonfils Stanton Foundation’s 2014 Community Service Award. The recognition is part of a trio of foundation accolades given annually and known throughout the state as […]
The past 150 years have seen wave after wave of change for the University of Denver. From our humble beginnings in 1864 in a single downtown building, the University has grown into the city’s signature institution, and today, we are known for our distinctive campus, our international presence, and our […]
In January 2014, Robert Coombe, the University’s 17th chancellor, announced he will retire at the end of June, along with his wife, Julanna Gilbert, executive director of the Office of Teaching and Learning and a member of the chemistry and biochemistry faculty. Coombe assumed the chancellorship in 2005, after serving […]
To prepare for a sesquicentennial exhibit at the Anderson Academic Commons, University of Denver archivists dug deep into their collections to find photographs, uniforms and other artifacts that help tell the DU story. “Tradition and Legacy” — an interactive exhibit that opened Jan. 13 — features 13 stations spread throughout […]
Eschewing the typical Founders Day format for a party befitting the University of Denver’s 150th anniversary, the 2014 Founders Day Gala was a grand celebration of the University’s long history. The event took place March 5 at the Hyatt Regency Colorado Convention Center in Denver and welcomed more than 1,100 […]
At the University of Denver, community service is a way of life that starts with the University’s vision — to be a great private university dedicated to the public good — and continues through the lives of students, alumni, faculty and staff. As part of its sesquicentennial year celebration, the […]
It’s never too early to plant a seed that will inspire pursuit of a college education. But when you’re working with young students for whom college may be a foreign concept, simply talking about it in a classroom doesn’t do the trick. Julio Alas (BA ’08, MA ’11), a kindergarten […]
Hydration stations on the University of Denver campus — water fountains that feature a spout for filling reusable water bottles — have saved waste from a total of more than 1 million disposable plastic water bottles. “I think we were all pleasantly surprised that we actually hit a million and […]
The University of Denver announced May 1 that it has reaffirmed its longstanding zero tolerance policy toward sexual harassment and violence on and off campus. The announcement comes in response to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) release of a list of 55 institutions nationwide — […]
The University of Denver has announced speakers for the spring 2014 Commencement ceremonies in May and June. Linda Childears, president and CEO of the Daniels Fund, will deliver the spring undergraduate Commencement address on Saturday, June 7. Childears serves on the boards of Cheyenne Capital Fund, Denver Metro Chamber of […]
On May 4, 1970, a group of DU students gathered in the student union to discuss the invasion of Cambodia, a regional expansion of the Vietnam War, announced by President Richard Nixon four days earlier on April 30. The students formed the Ad Hoc Committee to End the War and […]
The DU Environmental Team, in partnership with the Undergraduate Student Government Sustainability Committee and the Sturm College of Law Natural Resources and Environmental Law Society will hold its fifth annual Earth Day Summit April 25 in the Ricketson Law Building. Keynote speaker Travis Smith (MBA ’13), owner and head chef […]
It looked like a spaceship moving down University Boulevard, students said. The floating contraption – carried five blocks by 17 students – was a geodesic dome 30 feet in diameter and 17 feet high made in celebration of the first Earth Day at DU.
Forty-seven students in the University of Denver’s Global Medical Brigades program traveled to Nicaragua March 17–23 to help operate a mobile medical and dental clinic in the town of Estelí. The student group is a chapter of Global Brigades, the world’s largest student-led global health and development organization. Because of […]