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Finance major Lindsay Cone a double threat on the slopes and on the links

Finance major Lindsay Cone a double threat on the slopes and on the links

No one would give it a second thought if Lindsay Cone decided to pack away her golf bag to spend more time honing her skills on the ski slopes. Cone, after all, has won a pair of All-America honors since joining DU’s ski program, and she has emerged as one […]

Stamps from around the world turned into one-of-a-kind map

Stamps from around the world turned into one-of-a-kind map

Using canceled stamps she got from international student applications, Betsy Pike — now an admission coordinator for University College — made this world map when she was a work-study student in the Office of International Student Admission. Pike (BA ’03) says the recent increase in online applications results in far […]

Editor’s Note

Editor’s Note

On Oct. 3, 2012, millions of people will turn their attention to the University of Denver as DU hosts a U.S. presidential debate in advance of the November general election. We’re one of only three schools nationwide selected to host a presidential debate — the first in Colorado’s history. To […]

Student documentary on Tuskegee airman wins top honors at film festival

It took communication majors Shane Carrick (BA ’08) and Bobby Deline (BA ’07) a few tries to find the right subject for their documentary film, but when they met Lt. Col. James Harvey they knew they had their man. Harvey, who lives in Denver, was a member of the Tuskegee […]

Interview: Presidential candidate Fred Karger

Interview: Presidential candidate Fred Karger

Since announcing his intention to run for president in 2012, longtime campaign consultant Fred Karger (BA speech communication ’72) has made a name for himself as the openly gay, Jewish, Republican candidate whose platform includes reforming education, lowering the voting age and bringing a spirit of cooperation back to Washington. […]

Corps Values

Corps Values

For half a century, the Peace Corps has provided DU alumni and students with a life-changing chance to serve.

15 Colorado Artists collective pioneered modern art in Denver (VIDEO)

15 Colorado Artists collective pioneered modern art in Denver (VIDEO)

In 2011, when pretty much anything goes in the world of visual art, it’s hard to imagine what a big deal it was 60 years ago when a handful of Colorado artists left the realm of the real behind to go in a more abstract, modern direction. With 10 DU […]

Symposium brings alumni back to DU classrooms

More than 250 alumni and friends attended DU’s fifth annual Alumni Symposium Sept. 30–Oct. 1. The event highlighted the University’s rich academic tradition and connected alumni with the intellectual life at DU. This year’s keynote speakers were Peter Funt (BA mass communications ’69), a syndicated newspaper columnist and former host […]

Art grad Morehshin Allahyari knows the power of intercultural art projects

Art grad Morehshin Allahyari knows the power of intercultural art projects

Not long after artist Morehshin Allahyari came to the University of Denver from Iran in 2007 for her master’s degree in digital media studies, she says she became “uncomfortable and shocked” by people’s perception of her native country. “[Iran is] more than donkeys in villages, women in hijab, the poor […]

Leadership is serious business for junior Joseph Zhang

Leadership is serious business for junior Joseph Zhang

If you saw a dollar on the ground, would you pick it up? In his winning entry for the University of Denver Magazine “Communities of Change” video contest, junior international business major Joseph Zhang asks this question to explore the issue of community change through the value of a dollar. […]

Patent lawyer Ellen Winner is a shaman on the side

Patent lawyer Ellen Winner is a shaman on the side

Most patent attorneys don’t include shamanism in their list of hobbies, but for Ellen Winner, the combination is a natural fit. Winner (JD ’81) says her interest started in 1984 when she read The Way of the Shaman by Michael Harner. She attended a seminar and took classes, then traveled […]

DU researchers have a blast at ballistics lab

DU researchers have a blast at ballistics lab

The University of Denver blows up, shoots at and blasts holes in more stuff before noon than most universities do all day. Measuring and documenting havoc wreaked by .50-caliber bullets, cannon blasts of ball bearings and dozens of explosive concoctions, researchers at DU’s Applied Research and Technology Institute toil at […]

DU hockey blogger Damien Goddard does it all for the fans

DU hockey blogger Damien Goddard does it all for the fans

Damien Goddard may be part rebel, but he’s all Pioneer. The University of Denver graduate, blogger and DU hockey uber-fan doesn’t always toe the school line, but his devotion to the hockey program, the fans, and ultimately to DU school spirit is unquestionable. Goddard, 46, graduated with a business management […]

Novel details military service during ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’

Novel details military service during ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’

Dedicated to those who serve in silence, Don’t Tell (Lethe Press, 2011) chronicles a romantic relationship between two women in the military in the 1980s. Author Kathy Kron (JD ’99) says the story was inspired by her own experiences in basic training and military service at Fort Carson, Colo., before […]

Straight Shooter

Straight Shooter

Compromise and common sense mark the career of Wyoming Senator Mike Enzi.