Scott Larson, a 21-year-old senior international business major, is credited with saving a man’s life on June 18 near Buena Vista, Colo. That afternoon, as Larson was returning to his car after hiking Mount Antero, a man ran toward him, screaming for help. That man, Jim Denton, told Larson that […]
Alumna Keri Herman is at the top of her game as one of the best female freeskiers in the world.
Strange how the rain comes on days like this, when blue in any context is a lie, a scratch on the sky’s socked-in surface, and the gutters on the house next door leak like sieves, cracked and bowed, dropping water into sidewalk ponds. We let the sound in when it […]
Professor George DeMartino says economists also had a hand in causing America’s Great Recession.
The University of Denver is leading a charge that will change the way today’s lawyers are taught to navigate tomorrow’s legal world, battle-testing students while they are still in the classroom and challenging them to think like lawyers instead of law students. In August, the DU-based Institute for the Advancement […]
1. The global war on terror to capture and kill transnational terrorists and support U.S. allies with counterterrorism assistance 2. Invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq, with approximately 6,000 U.S. casualties and more than $1 trillion spent 3. A new federal government agency—the Department of Homeland Security—with an annual […]
Nicholas Sauer (BA ’05) was elected to the board of education for District 220 in his hometown of Barrington, Ill., in 2009. The board’s youngest member, he already is well respected and shares governance responsibility for a $121 million operating budget, 14 buildings, 1,165 staff members and 9,150 students. […]
New York City is a big — and oftentimes scary — place for newcomers, but John Ritter (BA ’72, BS ’72) is always there to provide some direction. “Whenever I receive a call from a student or a DU graduate who is moving to New York, I try to make […]
Every January for most of the past two decades, DU alumnus Patrick Grant (MBA ’73) has sat tall in the saddle at Denver’s National Western Stock Show, shepherding the annual event through another 16-day exhibition. Corralling 16,000 head of livestock. Welcoming cattlemen, ranchers and rodeo hands from 45 nations. Raising […]
You’d think her job as chief financial officer and executive vice president of corporate services for Home Depot would keep her busy enough, but Carol Tomé (MBA ’81) also finds time to serve on the boards of the United Parcel Service and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and to […]
Dennis Powers (JD ’66) grew up near the New Jersey shore, where he sailed, surfed, water-skied, kayaked and fished. He has channeled his love of the sea to pen five maritime books. His first, The Raging Sea (Citadel, 2005), was about the devastating 1964 tsunami that crashed down the West […]
Former English Professor Bill Zaranka, who served as DU’s provost from 1989–2001, says he doesn’t really know how he ended up in the job. It certainly was not part of his plan. As a writer, all he wanted was isolation and huge blocks of free time — the exact opposite […]
Penrose Library put some of the treasures from its Carson-Brierly Dance Library on display in spring 2011 with “Ballet Struck: Lillian Covillo and Colorado Ballet,” a special exhibit of vintage dance memorabilia. The programs, photographs and scrapbook pictured here were donated by Colorado Ballet co-founder Covillo, who died in November […]
“I can’t believe she’s applying to college,” my daughter says, voice trailing off in misery. “I keep bursting into tears. The people at work think I’m losing it.” The “she” in question is my daughter’s only child — the girl about to fly the nest at the end of this […]
Raised in one of Denver’s poorest neighborhoods and incarcerated at 16, Jose Guerrero was going nowhere fast. Slam poetry helped the DU student turn his life around.