As the baby boom generation enters retirement, the impact on the U.S. legal profession will be dramatic: As many as 400,000 lawyers are expected to retire in the next 15 years. If attorney Karen Mathis has her way, many of them will pursue a “Second Season of Service,” during which […]
Mathematician and mathematics education pioneer Herbert Greenberg, a DU professor emeritus, died Jan. 1, 2007, in Peoria, Ill. He was 85. In the early 1960s, Greenberg created and chaired the mathematics department at the University of Denver. He stayed at DU for 30 years, during which he served as dean […]
Dawn Graham began her undergraduate education at Seton Hall University as a voice major. She says she quickly realized that her voice was better suited to “blending into a group,” so she moved into the choir and chose a new major: psychology. Graham has since learned that “blending into a […]
Former Colorado Gov. Bill Owens became a senior fellow at the University of Denver last week, but that honor could just as easily have occurred at some other school. The two-term Republican governor said he had “other opportunities” to become a senior fellow when he left office earlier in January, […]
Julia Rymer embodies her belief that artists need to experiment with subject matter, techniques and influences beyond art itself. Her first exhibition at CORE New Art Space, “Spectra,” Jan. 26–Feb. 11, features paintings and drawings that Rymer (BFA ’00) says are inspired by a variety of sources, including Greek myths, […]
Students from the Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS) recently published the results of a case study of the St. Francis Center for the Homeless, a downtown Denver day shelter for the homeless. In collaboration with the Center On Rights Development, master’s degree candidates Tommaso Diegoli, Mariko Frame and Matthias Hildebrandt, along […]
When Bayonne (Smith) Holmes began her college search in the mid 1950s, she hoped to leave Denver to attend a historically black college. Her mother had encouraged Holmes and her seven siblings to get an education, but Holmes couldn’t afford to leave Denver. So, Holmes attended DU like her mother, […]
Leah Berry’s research project took her a long way from home last fall — all the way to the United Republic of Tanzania, a country on Africa’s east coast. Berry, an international studies graduate student, was looking into environmental conflicts associated with refugee camps. For a dozen years, Tanzania has […]
The Democratic takeover of the U.S. Congress this month ushers in a “golden era” for African-American political power, experts say. Peter Groff tracked the progress of 138 African-American campaigns on his Web site, blackpolicy.org. For the first time, blacks chair 23 House committees and subcommittees, including the influential Ways and Means […]
The way five DU sophomores see it, students can’t quench the thirst for knowledge without first easing the hunger for snacks. So the young entrepreneurs launched a new grocery and snack delivery service that they hope will fatten their wallets by filling refrigerators. It’s a franchise called DormSnacks.com at the University […]
Bill Johnson (BA mathematics ’64) was always interested in learning. He spent three hours every day being tutored by two aunts, both teachers, practicing school subjects and learning activities like cooking and gardening. He spent summers traveling the country, soaking up history about the parks and monuments he visited. But […]
Mark your calendar for April 19 when the 2007 University Lecturer will present a riveting program on electron paramagnetic resonance. Sandra Eaton, a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, laughs and says, “My friends keep saying, ‘I’ll attend your lecture, but I’m sure I won’t have any idea what […]
When Paul Chan was asked to consider running for president of the Denver Bar Association, he knew it wasn’t really a choice. After all, he could never turn down the opportunity to follow in the footsteps of one of his heroes — early civil rights champion and former Colorado Gov. Ralph […]
For more than a quarter century, the Denver Spoke, an unassuming East Evans Avenue bike shop near DU, has been an icon of the bicycling world. Top racers and celebrities flocked to it and championships were earned because of it — successes largely driven by Dong Ngo, a sharp-tongued, effervescent […]
Robert Yegge, dean emeritus of the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, died Dec. 16, 2006, of respiratory failure at a Denver hospice. He was 72. Yegge served as acting dean of the DU College of Law from 1965–66 and as dean from 1966–77 and again from 1997–98. Since […]