The University of Denver men’s basketball program will host its annual end of the year banquet on Thursday, April 25, in the Gottesfeld Room on the fourth floor of the Daniel L. Ritchie Center for Sports and Wellness. The dinner will begin at 6 p.m., followed by a program to […]
First-year student Paige Jones has a passion for helping others. Through her humanitarian work, Jones is a leader making a positive impact in the University community and around the globe. A Broomfield, Colo., native, Jones was drawn to the University because of its small size and academic programs. The deciding […]
April may be designated as Earth Month, but at the University of Denver, the Sustainability Council and the Center for Sustainability work year-round to make campus green. The Sustainability Council, made up of administrators, faculty, students and staff, partners with facilities management, student housing, dining services, parking and transportation, marketing […]
Renowned physicist and writer Linda Randall, a science professor from Harvard University, will deliver a public lecture at 7 p.m. April 15 at Davis Auditorium on campus. Her lecture, “Truth and Beauty and Other Scientific Misconceptions,” is free and open to the public. “I want to stress that this is […]
Curatorial studies students at the University of Denver are helping to welcome the Anderson Academic Commons to campus in an unusual way, collaborating with two internationally known artists on a pair of installations that address the role of the library in 2013. Inspired by the debate over the number of […]
At first glance, it’s hard to see anything but barbed wire, parched trees and plants armed for battle at Amache, the southeastern Colorado setting of a World War II internment camp for people of Japanese descent. From 1942 to 1945, Amache housed so many people that it qualified as Colorado’s […]
What tribe are you? Organizers of a new exhibit at the University of Denver Museum of Anthropology say there a lot of ways to answer that question: Navajo, Scottish, Jewish — but also poet, writer, teacher, student. “WhatTRIBE,” featuring the work of Native American artist Douglas Miles, runs through May […]
An emotional George Gwozdecky looked back over his 19-year coaching career at the University of Denver during a press conference Tuesday morning. The Pioneer men’s hockey coach was released from his contract Monday morning, three days after the Pioneers failed to advance in the NCAA Tournament for the fifth time […]
The Center for Multicultural Excellence and the Leo Block Alumni Center at the University of Denver will partner with Denver-area schools to host the fourth annual Black Male Initiative Summit on Friday, April 19. This year’s theme is “I Am the Master of my Fate: Leadership, Education and Black Male […]
Those who want to fully embrace the American holiday experience have any number of shopping malls or ice skating rinks to visit. Those who prefer to spend the season in a more contemplative mode have another option: A Night in Bethlehem. The Christmas-themed jazz show, which brings its national tour […]
While many people receive bikes during the holidays as gifts, some folks at DU are getting their wheels taken away. The red bikes seen around campus over the past 18 months, which are part of a bike-share program overseen by B-cycle and the city of Denver, will be taken out […]
Anne DePrince, a DU associate professor of psychology, just completed a three-year research project that studied victims of intimate partner abuse with the Denver Police Department and the Denver District Attorney’s office. DePrince wanted to learn more about women’s lives in the year after incidents of intimate partner abuse and […]
As a war crimes tribunal prosecutor for the United Nations in Rwanda, Sturm College of Law visiting professor David Akerson saw firsthand the ravages of war and the price of ignorance. So he went a step further than prosecuting those who committed crimes in the past. Working with a team […]
‘Once upon a time’ is not a phrase most students think of when signing up for a math course. But DU mathematics Professor Allegra Reiber’s first-year seminar, Mathematics through Fiction, offered more than just numbers and calculations. It focused on the creative aspects of math by introducing students to mathematical […]
Barbara Walz (MS ’94) and Lee Boughey (MS ’04) have a fair amount in common: they both work at Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, a nonprofit wholesale electricity supplier in Westminster; they’re both enamored by the energy industry; and they both hold master’s degrees in environmental policy and management from […]