Chelsea Clinton and actress America Ferrara spoke at an organizing event for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign on Thursday, Sept. 18, in DU’s Anderson Academic Commons. Free and open to the public, the event was attended by DU students, faculty, staff and members of the Denver community. Ferrara opened by […]
Bestselling author Karen Salmansohn said, “Be so busy loving your life that you have no time for hate, regret, or fear.” This is the motto by which University of Denver senior Laura Hendrickson lives her life. Hendrickson, who hails from the small town of Los Gatos, Calif., says she fell […]
Former University of Denver botany Professor Moras Shubert, who died Dec. 10, at age 100, lived a rich and productive life. Born on a farm in Nebraska near a town that bore his family name, Shubert grew up in nearby Falls City and later attended Peru State Teachers College. There, […]
The presidential debate on campus was undoubtedly the biggest the story of the year, but there was other big news at the University of Denver this year, including a new logo and a move to a new athletic conference. As voted on by the staff of the University Communications department, […]
The presidential debate, Olympic athletes and scholarships were among the most important topics to DU Today readers in 2012. Here are the top 10 most-read stories for the year. 1. First round of students selected to attend debate 2. Three Pioneers set for 2012 Olympic Games 3. ‘Tis the season […]
Talking about reinventing the way law is taught is one thing. Doing it is another. The University of Denver Sturm College of Law is doing it. Last year, Denver Law announced it was joining a consortium of law schools determined to produce graduates better prepared to enter the working world. […]
U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado assembled scores of leaders from across the state at the University of Denver on Dec. 9 to launch a bipartisan call for comprehensive national immigration reform. Bennet’s initiative, the Colorado Compact, has the endorsement of more than 100 leaders in Colorado’s political, business, agriculture, […]
The things a tree can tell you can change the fate of a civilization. That’s why since 2007, Associate Professor Matthew Taylor of the geography department has been taking University of Denver graduate and undergraduate students to Guatemala to study tree-ring data. The light and dark bands of wood, he […]
The Civil Rights Clinic at the Sturm College of Law emerged victorious Aug. 24 in a battle it had been waging for years on behalf of Troy Anderson, an inmate at the Colorado State Penitentiary who has spent a quarter century in prison. Anderson has spent the last 12 years […]
New York-based painter Dana Schutz has become one of America’s best-known young artists by embracing — and painting — the often-strange ideas that come into her head. In one series of paintings she portrays people eating themselves; in another she imagines an Earth with only two people left: a man […]
The American Political Science Association has selected Erica Chenoweth, a professor in the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, and her co-author, Maria Stephan of the U.S. State Department, as the recipients of the 2012 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for their book Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of […]
The University of Denver has accepted an invitation to join the Summit League and will move all athletics programs currently participating in the Western Athletic Conference after completion of the 2012–13 season. The invitation to join the Summit League came shortly after conference officials visited the Denver campus. “Just as […]
The University of Denver ranks sixth in the nation among doctoral and research institutions in percentage of undergraduate students participating in study-abroad programs, according to the 2012 Open Doors report. Released Nov. 12 by the Institute of International Education, the report shows that DU sent 64.3 percent of its undergraduates […]
Online education is allowing thousands of people across the country to earn or finish degrees, but there are still bugs to work out. It’s easy enough for the English major to read a poem online, but what about the chemistry student who still has to find a way to do […]
Dozens of young families and senior citizens living in a Fort Morgan mobile home park face eviction just days before the holidays. University of Denver Sturm College of Law student lawyers today filed court documents seeking to block the proposed mobile home park closure and force park operators to provide […]