A unique course gives students real-world construction management experience.

You may be wondering, with all of the great things going on at the University of Denver, why devote so much of our magazine to Africa? The answer is simple: It is DU’s mission to be a great private university dedicated to the public good. Whether here in our own […]

You remember it. The family road trip, complete with mom and dad in the front seat of the station wagon, your little brother complaining of carsickness and you staring out the window wondering why your folks didn’t send you to summer camp. Then, like a mirage, you see it — […]

Loyalty. Pride. Tradition. Add a heaping helping of mutual dislike and you have the recipe for a delicious college rivalry. The longstanding rivalry between the DU Pioneers and the Colorado College (CC) Tigers is based more on what the two schools have in common: “Both are private institutions in an […]

For generations of DU students, Elitch Gardens was one of Denver’s most popular destinations for a date or a night out with the crowd. The Trocadero Ballroom, Elitch’s spacious outdoor dancing pavilion, was a special destination. The touring dance bands of the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s — Harry James, Les […]

Melea Riley, 12, confidently steps out on the ice and practices her waltz jump, half lutz and half loop. Then, with determination on her petite face, she attempts her latest stunt, the salchow. After wobbly success, Melea looks up at her mom, Shana Riley, for applause. Bystanders would never guess […]

In December, 14 DU students spent four weeks volunteering in Dharamsala, India, which is home to about 20,000 Tibetan refugees.The work was part of Project Dharamsala, a 5-credit course that integrates classroom theory with active learning. The 12 undergraduate and two graduate students spent about four hours every day doing […]

What’s kept the DU Rugby Club tradition going for the past 40 years? “The camaraderie you have with your mates is unmatched in any other sport, like being able to beat the living tar out of another team for 80 minutes and then partying with them afterwards like nothing ever […]

“Want to be wait-listed for Classical Greek?” “Just two seats left in Intermediate Latin; don’t wait too long to enroll!” No one will ever hear either remark at DU. Courses about mythology and ancient literature draw many times more students than the ancient languages themselves. Nevertheless, the very words of […]

For 14 years, international studies Assoc. Prof. Art Gilbert has led students to Costa Rica for a course like no other.

Andy Taylor learned the rental-car business by washing cars. In fact, he may be the only CEO in the industry who has scrubbed the cars in his company’s fleet. The company is Enterprise Rent-A-Car, and since its inception, the DU grad has helped it become the largest in North America. […]

Pioneers share memories of Olympic glory

The University of Denver Research Institute (DRI) scored quite a coup when it landed Joel Williamsen’s Center for Space Systems Survivability in 1998. But then, being in business at all was something of a coup; just a few years earlier, the institute’s own “survivability” stood very much in doubt. “When […]

DU researchers and alumni continue to make enduring contributions to the investigation of our universe.