The family that had a hand in everything from the U.S. Senate to the Central City Opera to the Denver Broncos also had a lasting impact on DU.

Alum David Lucy reflects on his time as the country’s first black collegiate skier.

Thanks to the dizzying forward progress of technology, the media and communications industries have undergone big changes in recent years. And DU alum Jim Kennedy (BSBA ’70) has played a major role in all of it. As CEO of Cox Enterprises from 1998–2010, Kennedy guided his private, family owned company […]

A 25-year-old ski instructor from Anchorage, Alaska, seems an unlikely champion for schools in Nicaragua. But Espen Haugen (BA international studies and geography ’08) is unusually determined. He first went to Nicaragua in 2007 as part of a geography course taught by Associate Professor Matthew Taylor. Haugen knew that although […]

Mary Overington (MSW ’98) is eager to talk about why her work for Denver-based Clothes To Kids means so much to her. “When I hear stories about kids who come in [to our store] and their eyes say, ‘Wow — I get to shop and pick out what I like,’ […]

Going from running a hospice to running a restaurant may sound like an odd transition, but to Jan Bezuidenhout it makes perfect sense. Bezuidenhout (MSW ’85), founder of the Denver-based Namaste Hospice, says that no matter how connected they were with the hospice during their loved ones’ illnesses, very few […]

Candace Toft (MA ’74) wrote Off the Ropes: The Ron Lyle Story (Scratching Shed Publishing, 2010) to shed light on Lyle’s extraordinary life. The major heavyweight contender from Denver is portrayed as a man defined not by his failures but by his triumphs in and out of the boxing ring. […]

David Rosenberg thinks soccer can connect the world. “It’s a universal language in a way,” he says. “You can bring a ball to a field anywhere in the world and you can connect.” That’s the message Rosenberg (BA mass communications and psychology ’78) and co-author Ethan Zohn relay in their […]

Ed Stein’s Mile High City-themed comic strip Denver Square ran for 12 years in the Rocky Mountain News. When the News folded in 2009, Stein reinvented the strip as Freshly Squeezed, a nationally syndicated daily comic about a multigeneration family forced to live together because of the economic downturn. “I […]

There are people in this world who, simply by living their lives, teach those around them how to more fully live their own. Dennis Erik Markusson (BS ’92), known as Erik to his friends, was one of those people. “His attitude was, ‘I’m here. I’m going to do this,’” says […]

When Susan Jenson got her MA in art at DU in 1998, she thought she was off to a career as a college instructor, teaching undergrads the finer points of Picasso, postmodernism and perspective. But that all went out the window when she set foot in Downtown Aurora Visual Arts […]

Denver- and Arizona-based artist Carl Dalio painted this pastel of the Harper Humanities Gardens in summer 2010. A member of the American Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor Society and the Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Society, Dalio also creates many of the architectural illustrations for new buildings on the DU campus. […]

A $3 million gift from the Roche Family Foundation and Robert Roche will establish the Roche Family International Business Transactions Program at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. The new program will increase the school’s capacity to provide comprehensive, internationally relevant business transaction skills training for master’s of […]

Ski team scrapbook I read with great interest the last issue of the University of Denver Magazine [winter 2010] that included the picture of the 1946 ski team on page 53. Enclosed are pictures of the 1962 ski team around our 1962 Buick team car, with what I believe is […]

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Winter Carnival, a favorite Pioneers tradition. The first Winter Carnival was held the weekend of Jan. 13, 1961, and was sponsored by the Pioneer Ski Club. Although that weekend included a Friday the 13th, the date was selected because it coincided with NCAA […]