After growing up and attending college in New York, Jeanne Abrams was awed by the wide-open space and the “tremendous feeling of the possibilities” when she arrived in Colorado in 1973. In her new book, Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail, A History in the West (New York University Press, 2006), […]
The stereotypical bespectacled school librarian, commanding silence with narrowed eyes and furrowed brow, never existed in the persona of Liz Keating (MA librarianship ’74). Keating is a library information specialist for Leawood Elementary School in Littleton, Colo., and she views her interaction with students as an “opportunity to impact future […]
Cyber-trends author Ken Leebow has seen the “new” Internet, and it is us. People all over the world are generating a flood of information on the World Wide Web, sparking “Revolution 3.0,” Leebow told guests Dec. 8 at the 2006 School of Engineering and Computer Science awards banquet. “We are, […]
Law Associate Professor Kristian Miccio is a nationally recognized expert in domestic violence and has lobbied for prosecuting crimes against women and girls as hate crimes. Miccio says the recent dragging death of Luz Maria Franco-Fierros in Douglas County, the murder of Emily Keyes in Bailey, Colo., and the killing […]
You’d think that after making 10 million or so chocolate truffles, Erich Dietrich would be sick of them. You’d think that at age 59, he’d want to hang up the candy-making apron he donned in Germany when he was 14 and swap the thick aroma of exquisite chocolate for the […]
Michele “Mike” Bloom’s odyssey as the dean of the Women’s College at the University of Denver will come to an end as she steps down at the end of the year. “Mike has had such a strong and pure vision for the Women’s College and for the transformation of women’s […]
Without challenges, life would be easy and boring. So says Austin Nelson, a DU senior business major who knows a thing or two about challenges. Nelson, 21, was born severely hearing impaired, and that has impacted his balance. Yet, he’s taken up a sport that hinges almost entirely on balance […]
Colorado architect Guion Cabell “Cab” Childress IV, whose celebrated body of work culminated with a number of landmark DU buildings, died Nov. 17 at Meadow’s Edge, his home in Castle Rock. Childress served as University architect from 1994–1999 and as architect emeritus until his death at age 74. He will […]
David Shneer revels in challenging assumptions, shattering stereotypes and provoking conversations. The director of the University of Denver Center for Judaic Studies and an associate professor in the history department, he has made it his mission to better the world through learning. A specialist in modern Jewish culture and the […]
It never hurts to have a cop as a neighbor. DU-area residents have one in Tracie Keesee, the new Denver Police Department District 3 commander. She grew up on Evans just minutes from the campus, so she knows the University area as well as she knows her badge number. And what’s […]
When sophomore psychology major Liz Pattison began looking for a work-study position earlier this year, she wanted to make a difference. With Rock the Earth, she found a way to utilize her environmental interests while learning what it takes to run a nonprofit. “I gained a better understanding of planning, […]
Annette Aksdal, DU’s No. 1 woman tennis player, has until Jan. 12 to fix her forehand. That’s the first day of the Michigan Invitational in Ann Arbor. If by then, her forehand stroke hasn’t improved, she won’t be able to handle the top-flight national competition she’ll face. Aksdal’s forehand weakness […]
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 […]
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 […]
Figure-skating champion and new University of Denver student Michelle Kwan has become the first American Public Diplomacy Envoy. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (BA ’74, PhD ’81) made the announcement Nov. 9 at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. Rice tapped Kwan to help promote understanding of America […]