The work of Western artist Allen Tupper True (attd. 1899-1900) ranged from the very small to the very large, and an exhibit at three different Denver-area art institutions shows just how big his scope truly was. “Allen True’s West,” running through March 28 at the Denver Art Museum (DAM), the Denver Public Library and the Colorado History Museum, features illustrations, paintings, murals and more by the Colorado native and DU alumnus who was once among the best-known Western artists in the country.

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 […]

In 2006, I walked into a packing and shipping store and set down my burden — two urns containing the remains of my grandparents. I had loved them and nursed them and held them when they died, and now, tearfully, I was asking whether I could mail them home. Home […]

While he was a student at DU, Sheldon Arakaki (BSBA ’84) spent time volunteering in the admission office, where he developed friendships with many staff members. Twenty-five years later, he is still building on the relationships he made at DU by participating in the Ammi Hyde admission interviews for prospective […]

Musician Al Hood has found the perfect gig at the University of Denver. Hood, an associate professor of trumpet at DU’s Lamont School of Music, plays dozens of concerts per year in crowded jazz clubs, swanky concert halls and ornate cathedrals around Denver. When he’s not on stage, Hood coaches […]

Ask Arda Collins why poetry is important, and the acclaimed poet will be the first to admit it’s not a popular genre that will ever “fly off the shelves.” “I think of it as important in the same way as if you spent a day with someone going to the […]

The DU School of Architecture and Planning was only around for six years — 1946 to 1952 — but it left its modernist mark on south Denver. Tucked away in a maze of side streets in Englewood, less than two miles from the DU campus, sits Arapahoe Acres, an astounding group of 124 mid-century modern homes right out of the Frank Lloyd Wright playbook. The project was conceived in 1949 by Denver developer Edward Hawkins, who bought a 30-acre parcel of land for $5,250. For his architect, Hawkins chose Eugene Sternberg, a Czech-born professor at DU’s architecture school.

Mitchel Libman still cries when he talks about his friend Leonard Kravitz. Libman (BA ’53) and Kravitz (the uncle and namesake of rock musician Lenny Kravitz) grew up together in Crown Heights, a largely Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y. “Lenny was always there when you needed a friend,” says Libman, […]

DU students studying abroad in London take class in Shakespeare’s Globe

  Given to DU Archivist Steve Fisher by a local postcard collector who found it at this year’s Rocky Mountain Book and Paper Fair, this 1911 invitation is to an appearance by then-President William Howard Taft at the DU gymnasium. According to a New York Times account of the president’s […]

Aug. 28 was a banner day for the DU soccer program. Not only did the women’s team win its first home game of the season, but it did so under the lights in the brand new University of Denver Soccer Stadium, a $9.2 million complex that’s been in the works […]

The idea of getting lost in a good book takes on a whole new meaning in light of recent brain-imaging research that shows that when people read, their brains respond as if they were taking the same actions as the characters in the story. Psychology Assistant Professor Jeremy Reynolds co-authored […]

DU’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies will educate a new generation of international security specialists and diplomats at the SIÉ CHÉOU-KANG Center for International Security and Diplomacy, an addition to Ben Cherrington Hall that opened in August. The SIÉ Center will provide leadership training for SIÉ Fellows, a program […]

Hollywood movie exec Roger Birnbaum discusses show business.

Americans live by credit, sometimes well beyond their means. And often, the lifelong dance with debt starts in college.