It’s finally safe for Kerry Cremeans to wear crimson. Cremeans, the new head coach of the University of Denver women’s basketball team, told reporters at a press conference Wednesday that at her previous job — associate head coach at Auburn University in Alabama — the shade was forbidden due to […]
Ray Suarez brought his unique political perspective to the DU campus on April 24, when he spoke as part of the Bridges to the Future lecture series. Suarez authored the book The Holy Vote: The Politics of Faith in America, and as an analyst with “PBS NewsHour,” he brings a […]
Author and journalist Ray Suarez thought that after three decades covering politics and American society, he knew how to gauge the country’s sentiment. When it came to handicapping the leading topics in this year’s presidential election, Suarez told an audience at DU April 24 that he counted on a tough […]
The Mendelssohn Trio (Ron Francois, violin; Barbara Thiem, cello; Theodor Lichtmann, piano), together with guest Margaret Miller, viola, will perform classic works in a recital this Friday. The trio formed in 1988 and has toured Europe twice, with another tour scheduled for this summer. The group was named for Thiem’s […]
Nadia Kaneva usually starts the first day of her graduate-level Brands and Identities class with a simple exercise. She asks her students to write down the names of people they’ve interacted with so far that day. Then she asks them to list the names of brands they’ve encountered. “I could […]
Nearly 150 black male high school students from across Denver came to the University of Denver campus April 6 for a daylong leadership and empowerment workshop. The third annual Black Male Initiative Summit, “I Am the Master of My Fate—Inviting Young Black Males to Lead,” was sponsored by DU’s Center […]
When Ryan LaPlante got the call, the bright lights of the big stage could not have been farther away. As a freshman goalie for the University of Denver men’s lacrosse team, LaPlante was very nearly redshirted this year, and he was not on the traveling squad when the Pioneers hit […]
“Pioneering Innovation Through Inclusion: What Do You DU?” That’s the theme of this year’s Diversity Summit for Inclusive Excellence, scheduled for May 3–4. “We want to challenge people to not just talk about what it means to be an inclusive leader, but to challenge themselves to ask, on a daily […]
DU’s Center for World Languages and Cultures (CWLC) has a new program for students who want to learn foreign languages not otherwise offered at DU, such as Swahili and Korean. The Directed Independent Language Study (DILS) program started winter quarter and is open to undergraduate and graduate students at DU. […]
Artist John Fielder has spent a lifetime photographing the Colorado wilderness — drifting on rivers through remote canyons, gazing across family ranches at towering mountains. Through observation, Fielder said he came to recognize something: It’s all interconnected. Everything in the world depends on something else. And, he concluded, it won’t […]
The University of Denver in 2012 ranked No. 1 among colleges and universities participating in the Peace Corps’ Paul D. Coverdell Fellows graduate school program, with 77 returned Peace Corps volunteers enrolled as graduate students at DU, Peace Corps Director Aaron Williams announced earlier this month. The Coverdell Fellows program […]
When Thomas Cohen bought the film rights to David James Duncan’s 1983 cult novel The River Why in the mid-’80s, he had no idea it would take more than 20 years to bring it to the screen. But thanks to Cohen’s wife, Kristi Denton Cohen (BA ’74), the movie finally […]
The students at DU’s Ricks Center for Gifted Children have made community service a learning priority. On April 17-18, more than 35 students participated in the Kids Who Share Fair, held in the front lobby of the center. The students shared information on 14 different community organizations, including Metro Denver […]
The University of Denver’s Bridges to the Future lecture series continues April 24 with a keynote presentation by Ray Suarez, author of The Holy Vote: The Politics of Faith in America. The event will be held from 7–8 p.m. at the Gates Concert Hall in the Newman Center for the […]
When new teachers venture into their first classrooms, they rely on a set of core competencies to help them educate their students. If these novice teachers are deficient in any of these competencies — classroom management, say, or using assessments to shape instruction — their students may stumble and fall […]