Adolfo Perez Esquivel, a former architect from Buenos Aires, is one of 10 Nobel Peace Prize laureates who will take part in PeaceJam’s 10th anniversary celebration at the University of Denver Sept. 15–17. Esquivel was awarded the peace prize in 1980 for his nonviolent approach to fighting human-rights violations in […]
Two DU alumni are at the top of the law world after presidential appointments in the American and Denver bar associations. Karen Mathis was appointed president of the American Bar Association (ABA) in August, and Paul Chan was named president of the Denver Bar Association in July. Mathis, (BA ’72)—a […]
Growing up in the Twin Cities region of Minnesota, an area scattered with rivers and lakes, Curt Shneider witnessed the environmental damage caused by pollution. That insight inspired him to prepare for a career in the environmental field, and beginning with his sophomore year, he came to DU to do […]
The Scholars’ Network, designed to connect higher ed students with local businesses and government agencies, started in 2004 as a DU Pioneer Leadership Program community change project. Scholars’ Network President Christopher Dirgo came up with the idea for an organization that capitalizes on students’ economical impact. Last year, the network […]
Brandon Edelman has been preparing for a sports writing career since high school, but the recent DU graduate says he’s going to Texas in two weeks to try his hand at media relations. He’ll intern with the MasterCard Alamo Bowl in San Antonio until next January. In high school, Edelman’s […]
The fact that almost one in three Hispanic female high school students considers suicide motivated Lydia Prado (PhD psychology ’94) to create a suicide prevention program named Voz y Corazon—Spanish for voice and heart. “It is a huge challenge for Latina teens to negotiate a healthy bicultural identity in the […]
Jeralyn Merritt’s entire career has focused on defending the rights of the criminally accused. Whether it’s writing multiple times a day on her popular blog, Talkleft.com, serving on Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh’s defense team or appearing as a legal analyst on MSNBC and Fox News, Merritt has always had the […]
When Peter Hassrick arrived on campus in the 1960s to study 19th- and early 20th-century western American art, he was treading new ground. “At that time, no one was particularly interested in western American art, but DU allowed me to tailor my studies,” says Hassrick, MA art history ’69. Because […]
Tong’s career choice remains a mystery to many Chinese because, for many years, their government denied the existence of social problems and the need for social work. But now a unique partnership between the Graduate School of Social Work (GSSW) and Beijing’s China Youth University for the Political Sciences (CYUP) […]
As associate director of DU’s Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning (CCESL), Glenn Fee is paid to care about social issues. He works with student social-action groups, coordinates the community work-study program and alternative breaks, which connect students with community organizations. And when he goes home for the evening, […]
When DU management Professor Gordon Von Stroh began his quarterly Denver rental housing survey in 1981, a standard apartment near campus was in a stark, box-like building with few amenities. Bedrooms were small, parking was on the street and few complexes had landscaping, let alone swimming pools or laundry facilities. […]
At 73, Ernie Uthgenannt (BS civil engineering ’58, MA mathematics ’59), is still a sports triple threat. Competing in the 70+ age bracket, last year Uthgenannt won the U.S. Tennis Association New England doubles championship and placed second with his brother at the Housatonic Regatta sculling event. Uthgenannt also helped his […]
Jack Suzuki (BA liberal arts ’47) is making a colorful splash at the University of Colorado at Denver’s Auraria Library. More than 40 of his kaleidoscopic abstract paintings hang on the library walls and he’s constantly adding to the display. The 92-year-old artist first picked up a paintbrush 15 years […]
Peter Grandbois took a long and winding road—through Boulder, Chicago and Spain, through the fencing and business worlds. Now he’s living his dream. He graduated this summer from DU with a PhD in creative writing and literature, his first novel is on bookshelves and he started teaching. The Gravedigger (Chronicle […]
Students, commuters and anyone else who has ever used a backpack knows how difficult it is to keep things organized while on the go. University of Denver graduate Ian Ivarson realized there’s a better way. He created the “Ivar System”—soft shelves that keep books, papers and other necessities separate and […]