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Letter from the Chancellor

Dear Readers: As I write this column in late January, the attention of the nation is becoming more and more focused on the presidential election in the fall of this year. We’ve moved from a seemingly endless string of debates among the contenders for the Republican nomination to the season […]

Triennial show features work by DU art faculty

Triennial show features work by DU art faculty

“Cell Phone Landscape #1. Rain Drops, Aberdeen, South Dakota,” by photography Professor Roddy MacInnes, is among the works featured in the 2012 Faculty Triennial, on display through March 11 in the Victoria H. Myhren Gallery in the Shwayder Art Building. The show also includes work by faculty members Lawrence Argent, […]

Author’s sci-fi thriller draws on his real-life experiences

Author’s sci-fi thriller draws on his real-life experiences

Explosives, world travel and wars. Marc Meyers’ personal and professional adventures in these areas inspired his science fiction thriller Chechnya Jihad (Sunbelt Publications, 2010). Meyers (PhD materials science ’74), an explosives expert and a distinguished professor of materials science at the University of California, San Diego, wove elements of his […]

Lifelong learning sessions come to alumni around the country

DU alumni, prospective students and parents around the country now can engage in academic discussions with DU professors without setting foot on campus. In November, the Office of Alumni Relations partnered with Undergraduate Admission to bring lifelong learning events to DU alumni chapter cities in conjunction with the Ammi Hyde […]

Alum’s iTriage app lets your phone do the diagnosing

Alum’s iTriage app lets your phone do the diagnosing

Fred Ricles was running errands last spring when the vision in one of his eyes became blurry. “It looked like somebody had splashed coffee all over my contact lens,” the Centennial, Colo., man says. Using iTriage, an iPhone application co-developed by emergency room physician Dr. Wayne Guerra (MBA ’07), Ricles […]

Alumna and former Miss America Rebecca Dreman battling cancer with help of her family

Alumna and former Miss America Rebecca Dreman battling cancer with help of her family

Rebecca (King) Dreman (JD ’77) is a former Miss Colorado who was named Miss America in 1974. But today she’s more like a boxer in a knock-down, drag-out fight — a fight for her life. In September 2010, after she felt a marshmallow-like lump in her arm, doctors gave her […]

Mark Condon adds a green touch to Red Rocks Country Club

Mark Condon adds a green touch to Red Rocks Country Club

Mark Condon is focused on making putting greens even greener. Condon (MA ’84) is the general manager of Red Rocks Country Club, a private golf club located in Morrison, Colo., near the famous Red Rocks Amphitheatre. The club has gardens, two private lakes and 1,000 acres of private open space […]

Chef Boiardi pays tribute to family legacy in new cookbook

Chef Boiardi pays tribute to family legacy in new cookbook

You won’t find recipes for Beefaroni or canned lasagna in Anna Boiardi’s new cookbook, Delicious Memories (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2011). Instead you’ll learn to make gourmet dishes like ravioli with ricotta and squash filling, cotechino with lentils, and baked fennel with butter and Parmesan. Boiardi (BA ’94), whose great […]

Alumni video goes viral

DU has its own viral video star: In 2008, Marlow Cowan (MSW ’49) and his wife, Fran, gave an impromptu concert on the piano in the Mayo Clinic atrium in Rochester, Minn., while killing time between medical tests. Their rollicking performance of “Put on Your Old Gray Bonnet” was filmed […]

Letters

Building a better DU I am a proud graduate of the University of Denver. My undergraduate degree served as an excellent base upon which I built two master’s degrees and a doctorate. For this, I shall always be grateful to DU. However, there is no way on God’s green earth […]

DU to host first presidential debate of 2012

DU to host first presidential debate of 2012

The Commission on Presidential Debates has selected the University of Denver as the host site for the first 2012 U.S. presidential debate. The debate will be held on Oct. 3 in Magness Arena at DU’s Daniel L. Ritchie Center for Sports and Wellness. “The University of Denver is excited for […]

Class of ’56 reunion brings back memories of DU in the ’50s

Class of ’56 reunion brings back memories of DU in the ’50s

A few years ago, a group of alumni from the tight-knit Class of 1956 decided the standard 10-year reunions weren’t cutting it. Now they reconvene every five. “We were having such a good time that we said, ‘We ought to get together more often. We’re getting older. We’d better step […]

Alumnus Mike Kaplan is Aspen Skiing Co.’s king of the hill

Alumnus Mike Kaplan is Aspen Skiing Co.’s king of the hill

A lifelong skier who learned the sport on a tiny ski hill in Wisconsin, Aspen Skiing Co. CEO and President Mike Kaplan (MBA ’93) now runs one of the world’s top ski complexes. Aspen has four resorts offering a wide range of terrain: the beginner’s paradise at Buttermilk; the steeps […]

Women’s College professor establishes scholarship in honor of her late grandmother

Women’s College professor establishes scholarship in honor of her late grandmother

Carmella Lucia Fredo Lennon was a tenacious woman who made a lasting impact on many people, especially her granddaughter, Tiffani Lennon, chair of the law and society program at the University of Denver Women’s College. “I’ve never known a stronger, more powerful woman,” Tiffani Lennon says. In her grandmother’s memory, […]

Student actress doesn’t see disability as liability

Student actress doesn’t see disability as liability

Jenna Bainbridge auditioned at schools across the country and found the best fit practically in her backyard. Bainbridge—a sophomore voice major from Castle Rock, Colo.—received a DU Provost Scholarship, a scholarship from DU’s Lamont School of Music and a private scholarship. While DU made good financial sense, the University also […]