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Williams says strong beliefs bring about change

Nobel Peace laureate Jody Williams told a crowd of more than 300 DU students, faculty, staff and visiting teenagers from around the globe today that it’s not just the job of young people to bring about peace in the world. “We all have to find our own ways in our […]

Course takes another look at banned books

Students in English Associate Professor Scott Howard’s Censorship, Free Speech and Literature course will use banned books this fall to take a timely look at issues of intellectual freedom.  Howard’s students will interact with the literature and with advocates of Banned Books Week, Sept. 23–30. Each student will select a […]

Bridges to the Future explores the pursuit of peace

In anticipation of the gathering of 10 Nobel laureates for the PeaceJam Conference at DU Sept. 15–17, Timothy Sisk, associate professor of DU’s Graduate School of International Studies, presented an analysis of the Nobel Peace Prize Sept. 12 in Davis Auditorium.  To an audience of nearly 400, Sisk expounded on the […]

Play focuses on the lasting effects of sexual assault

On Sept. 6, an auditorium full of incoming first-year students watched a simulation of a DU student being sexually assaulted onstage. The scene was part of Untitled, a play based on the real-life experiences of four former DU students.  Untitled tells the story of a girl who, throughout her childhood, has […]

Tutu fought apartheid, preaches peace

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu will participate in PeaceJam’s 10th anniversary celebration Sept. 15–17 at the University of Denver. The PeaceJam gathering of 10 peace prize winners will be the largest congregation of Nobel laureates in the U.S. Tutu received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his leadership in […]

Programs board offers free movies

Monster House and World Trade Center are just a couple of the movies that DU students and other members of the DU community can see for free this quarter, thanks to the efforts of the DU Programs Board (DUPB). Every Thursday night at 8 through Nov. 16, DUPB will screen a […]

Class of 2010 enrollment is just right

They call it “summer melt,” the slip in an incoming class size due to some students’ last-minute decisions not to enroll. Admission officers always expect some slip; this year they counted on it.  As of Aug. 25, enrollment for the incoming class—targeted at 1,100 first year students—was 66 over goal […]

Voices of Experience set for fourth year

When you’ve been there, done that, you presumably understand it. You can talk about it in a way that others can’t.  That’s the idea behind Voices of Experience, a public lecture series that has quickly become the flagship lecture series for the Daniels College of Business.  “MBA students need something besides […]

Video game fosters empathy with migrant farm workers

Students and faculty at the University of Denver are attempting to use the power of video games to spread social consciousness by means of “humane gaming.” A group of undergraduate and graduate students from the digital media, computer science and electronic media arts design departments have been working on Squeezed, […]

Peace laureates to gather at DU

The largest-ever U.S. gathering of Nobel Peace Prize winners will convene at DU Sept. 15–17.  Ten laureates—including the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu—will be on DU’s campus to talk with 3,000 teenagers from 32 countries about how the teens can instill peace in their own communities.  On Sept. 15, […]

Couples clinic to open at DU

Couples looking for ways to strengthen their relationships will have a new place to go at DU beginning Sept 26. A clinic for couples is opening its doors in DU’s psychology department to offer counseling services. “We’ll provide state-of-the-art, research-based couples therapy to Denver-area couples to help them improve communication […]

Students cautioned about Facebook, MySpace

Whether looking for the weekend’s big party or a long-lost friend, Web sites like Facebook.com and MySpace.com offer online worlds of infinite social connections. But DU’s message to students is: beware.  Student orientation Director Lisa Matye Edwards says she wants students to understand that employers, stalkers, police and professors have […]

Blog from Jerusalem shared professor’s reaction to war

Center for Judaic Studies (CJS) director and history associate professor David Shneer had plans to go to Israel this summer. Those plans, made before Hezbollah kidnapped two Israeli soldiers, didn’t change when bombs and missiles started flying over the border between Israel and Lebanon. Shneer went to Israel in July […]

Mom is between Iraq and a hard place

It’s happened to countless of women since the beginning of time. Children fight in wars that their moms don’t agree with. Political activist and songwriter Laurie “Fly Janov” Williams, BA ’74, is counted among them. “My son rebelled against his hippie mother and joined the Marines,” Williams says.  Her son, […]

Logan collection lands at DU

Logan collection lands at DU

This fall, DU’s Victoria H. Myhren Gallery will showcase some of the diverse ways that artists manipulate ideas of reality in its Negotiating Reality: Recent Works from the Logan Collection exhibit. Organized by Art and Art History students, the exhibit will feature 19 world-class works created since 2000. Gallery Director […]