In We Are What We Eat, history Associate Professor Carol Helstosky is teaching students the relevance of food to economics, national identity and culture. And rather than simply plowing through reading assignments and taking copious lecture notes, students are personally contributing to the historiography by digging into the archives and […]
Visitors tour the Sturm College of Law nearly every day, but on Nov. 17 two busloads of people paid $50 each for the privilege. They were participants in Greenbuild, an annual U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) international expo. More than 13,000 attended this year’s expo held at the Denver Convention Center. […]
For DU and some other colleges and universities, a recent Department of Education report calling for higher-ed reforms is not entirely good news. Moving quickly to implement the recommendations of a federal higher education commission, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings issued the report in September and is holding hearings this fall. She […]
Prominent Colorado architect Guion Cabell “Cab” Childress died Nov. 17 after a long illness. He was 74. After earning a bachelor’s degree in architectural engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Childress earned a bachelor of arts in architecture from the University of Colorado in 1958. During his career, he […]
A class conversation on portraiture and racial stereotyping inspired Deborah Howard, associate professor in the School of Art and Art History, to begin her latest project, “Artist as Witness: Child Survivors of the Holocaust.” “I wanted to find a way to portray these survivors in a true sense, without romanticizing […]
The DU Steel Drum Ensemble will perform on Caribbean steel drums from 11 a.m.–noon in Hamilton Recital Hall. Tom Miller, Steel Drum Ensemble instructor, will direct. Admission is free. For information, call 303-777-5852. Later that day, from 4–5:30 p.m., the Lamont Wind Chamber Ensembles will perform, directed by Joseph Martin. […]
State law says all new college students up to age 50 must have shots against measles, mumps and rubella. Unless, of course, they don’t want to. University of Denver policy says all new students up to age 50 must conform with state vaccination law. Unless, of course, they’ve said they […]
For the first time, DU is participating in the seventh annual International Education Week Nov. 13–17 by providing students with information about study abroad and offering food from a variety of regions throughout the world. The joint initiative of the U.S. Department of Education and U.S. Department of State demonstrates […]
As David Cooper describes it, civic engagement and the humanities have a kismet relationship — like the plot of a romantic comedy, where two otherwise successful adults are missing something vital. “Civic engagement needs the humanities and the humanities need civic engagement,” he says. “We just have to get them […]
Women’s College Visiting Scholar Linda Smith, founder of Filters for Families, is leading a crusade to provide rural villages in Nepal with simple filters designed to reduce the amount of arsenic in drinking water. In the late 1990s, arsenic was discovered in Nepal’s groundwater. The World Health Organization classifies this as […]
A little coffee with your morning commute? Maybe a bagel or bun while you wait for the train? That is RTD’s vision for use of about 10,000 square feet of retail space on the south side of the new parking garage at the University of Denver Station. The decision on […]
A new shuttle service that would take light-rail riders from the University of Denver Station to distant parts of the campus and back again is on the drawing board. Demand will be the key. “If cost were not important and we had all the money we needed, then you could […]
Question No. 1: Spaces in the sparkling new, 540- car RTD parking garage adjacent to the University of Denver light-rail station are intended for: a. Students, faculty and staff at DU b. Hockey fans at the Ritchie Center c. Overnight guests at the Centennial Towers dorms d. Parents attending Commencement […]
It’s coming out of the box early, in about two weeks, and has nothing to assemble, nothing to plug in. It won’t be wrapped in holiday paper or tied with a fancy bow. And it’ll be no surprise who it’s from and how much it costs. And when the first […]
What: The southeast light-rail extension opens Nov. 17 with four new lines (E, F, G and H) and 13 new stations from Broadway to Lincoln Avenue. Where: The University of Denver Station is north of Buchtel Boulevard at High Street. What’s happening and when: An event celebrating the opening of […]