University of Denver Magazine: Dr. Rice, rumor has it that you have a new book coming out—the first installment in a two-volume memoir. Could you give us a sneak preview? Condoleezza Rice: I do have a new book coming out in October—a family memoir really. I decided that while it’s […]
Alumna Condoleezza Rice opens up about DU, 9/11, the George Bush legacy and more.
It’s Thursday afternoon at DU’s Fisher Early Learning Center, and naptime is just ending. Groggy toddlers wake up to crackers, bottles and a familiar presence in their classroom: “Grandma” Margaret Hall. The Volunteers of America (VOA) foster grandparent program came to Hall’s senior citizen residence in January to recruit volunteers […]
Tyrone Mills, associate director for campus safety, is well-known across the University of Denver campus. Nearly 40 years of employment with one institution will get you that. But there was a time when Mills was so well-known that he could enter a hockey game and students would start shouting his […]
Nora Ellen (Schneider) Heitmann (BA communication, political science ’00) was named one of Colorado’s 25 most powerful salespeople by Colorado Biz Magazine in February 2009. At the company where she works, Forward Logistics Group (FLG), she is consistently the No. 1-ranked salesperson, accruing more than $2.5 million annually. And she’s […]
Cindy Courville (MA ’80, PhD ’88) says that sometimes she has to pinch herself as a reminder that it’s all real. “I have this image of myself in my head, and I’m all grown up, still growing up, but I am this little girl from Opelousas, Louisiana, who made it […]
DU has graduated plenty of leaders in its time, but it’s likely few have as solemn a responsibility as Gen. George Casey Jr. (MA ’80), who was sworn in as the 36th chief of staff of the United States Army on April 10, 2007. He previously served as commander of […]
And Darkness Was Under His Feet: Stories of a Family (BookSurge Publishing, 2009), the latest book from Annie Dawid (PhD English ’89), traces the author’s ancestral roots through a collection of short stories from the perspective of Dawid’s paternal relatives. The collection begins in the early 20th century with a […]
I spend much of my time in the lower 48 answering questions about Alaska, which is OK because, well, I like to talk. A lot of the questions are pretty much stock: queries about the weather, the waxing and waning light and what the locals like to be called. But […]
A collection of vintage science fiction paperbacks amassed by Trace Reddell, associate professor of media, film and journalism studies at DU, was part of the Faculty Collects exhibit that was on display at the Myhren Gallery in April. Showcasing the diverse collections of DU faculty and staff, the exhibit included […]
Assistant Professor Lisa Pasko has a plan to help violent girls.
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Evans Chapel was so narrowly finished when Tom and Ruth Drabek were married in it in 1960 that then-Chaplain William Rhodes told Tom before the couple’s ceremony: “Hopefully Ruth’s gown doesn’t drag along a wall of wet paint.” Evans Chapel was rededicated to the University of Denver at 2 p.m. […]
There’s a place where Martin Luther King Jr., Miles Davis and Barack Obama all hang out together, and it isn’t in the fantasy of a jazz-loving, nonviolent Democrat. It’s at the 25,000-square-foot north Denver studio of sculptor Ed Dwight (MFA ’77), who specializes in pieces on black history, from his […]
When Kelley Hennigan was 12 years old she had a secret—one that, if kept, could have killed her. Hennigan’s story began when she was 5 years old, growing up near Houston, Texas. It was at that young age that she fell in love. “I loved gymnastics immediately. It stuck from […]