Many students struggle to maintain good grades, but Katy Van Lieshout makes it look like a breeze. The 20-year-old women’s soccer defender is the top student in her major’s junior class. She was DU’s Freshman Scholar-Athlete in 2009 and has earned a hat trick of appearances on the Sun Belt […]
When Marcia (Moritz) Gallagher (BA ’73) received an offer for a full academic scholarship to the University of Denver, she accepted — even though she had never visited campus. Because Gallagher had no parental support for her DU education, the need-based academic scholarship gave her an educational opportunity that wouldn’t […]
After nearly three years as assistant managing editor of the University of Denver Magazine, I took the reins in January, when Chelsey Baker-Hauck (BA ’96) left DU after a decade as the magazine’s managing editor. Chelsey was a tireless advocate for this magazine and its readers, and she leaves big […]
Parking wars at DU Regarding the 1950s memories you asked readers to share in your winter issue: Who remembers the “student riot” at the Bizad campus one spring between 1954 and ’56? Daily, students parked in time-limited parking on the block-long curb across from the Bizad building. A meter maid […]
University of Denver alumni Andy and Barbara Taylor have given $5 million to DU’s Daniels College of Business. The gift—which will be added to the already-established Taylor Scholarship endowment of $1 million—will provide scholarships to foster diversity among undergraduate students. The University has matched the new gift, bringing the total […]
The University of Denver’s Club Cycling program has always been a speedy group, but in 2011 it slipped into a new — and much faster — gear. One reason? Some say there are two. And the likelihood of them ever meeting was — well, unlikely. Rebecca Gross grew up in […]
Joanne Kron (BA ’03, MA ’03) recently was named executive director of ProgressNow Colorado, a 200,000-member progressive political advocacy organization. Prior, Kron worked for the Denver-based Gill Action Fund, which promotes equality for all people, regardless of sexual orientation. Q: What do you believe Coloradans are most concerned about […]
Martin Luther King Jr. visited the DU campus twice, first in 1964 and later in 1967. In 1964 he spoke before a crowd of 600 in the old Student Union Building (now the south end of the Driscoll Student Center) in an appearance sponsored by the local Shorter Community AME […]
Colorado’s history is rife with imagery of rugged bravado: Zebulon Pike’s daring mountaineering expedition, the fortunes won and lost during the Gold Rush, the cowboy herding cattle across the plains. But — perhaps because of Hollywood’s influence — almost all the Western heroes are white. M. Dores Cruz, an assistant […]
We march up the little hill to the old country cemetery by twos, by fours, with platters of fried chicken and bowls of potato salad and macaroni salad and Jell-O salad and all manner of things made with mayonnaise or whipped cream — mourners bearing blackberry pies and homemade cakes, […]
Colorado is about to get pummeled by a financial avalanche. DU’s Strategic Issues Program has a plan to keep the state out of harm’s way.
From rebel instructor to department chair, Professor Maynard Tischler left his mark on DU and its students.
After cutting his teeth at Denver’s Rocky Mountain News, alumnus Ed Estlow rose to the top of the Scripps media empire.
The Ammi Hyde Award for Recent Graduate Achievement will go to Erik Myhren (MA ’03). Myhren, an elementary school teacher in Denver for the past 14 years, introduced the sport of lacrosse to inner-city kids several years ago, and a handful of them fell in love. The story is so […]
Growing up in Madison, Wis., Doug Scrivner didn’t have to go far to find playmates. Thanks to his parents’ sense of community, Scrivner’s home was always buzzing with kids from the neighborhood. “It was an ‘Ozzie and Harriet’ kind of environment,” recalls Scrivner, a DU trustee, alumnus and adjunct professor. […]