Environmental author Auden Schendler and nationally known Colorado landscape photographer John Fielder will headline this year’s University of Denver Earth Day Summit on April 20. Sponsored by DU’s Sustainability Council and Environmental Team and the Institute for Public Policy, the free event will include breakout sessions with Tom McGee, DU’s […]
Lamont students have been working hard the past few weeks to put together their second full-length opera this academic year. The fall production of Faust has many eager to hear more from the Opera Theatre Program and the Lamont Symphony Orchestra. The spring opera, Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, runs […]
In 1928, a Cherokee man was murdered in southeastern Kentucky. He was just one of hundreds of thousands of Native Americans killed in America since Columbus arrived. But he was also the great-grandfather of Bill Stratton. “He was a victim of racial violence. That was not something I knew about […]
North Korea’s leadership, for all its stubborn self-assuredness, may have just made a monumental error, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said April 13 at the University of Denver. Speaking before a large crowd packed into the Cable Center, Albright said the hermit nation’s defiant April test launch of a […]
When Gay Carlson and Kim Hammond’s upper primary students from DU’s Ricks Center for Gifted Children began their study of world cultures, they never imagined that their journey would be the beginning of a life changing experience. On April 9, the third and fourth grade class traveled more than 230 […]
In July, James Cryan’s application to open a charter school in Denver was approved by the Denver Public Schools (DPS) board. A month later, the 27-year-old earned an MBA in school leadership from the University of Denver. Cryan’s charter school, Rocky Mountain Prep, will be a rigorous academic preparation school […]
If an oil company drills in the middle of the wilderness, maybe nobody hears it. But, experts say, it’s a different story when gas and oil rigs start chasing rich deposits under Colorado cities and towns, poking around neighborhoods and even under City Hall. An April 12 panel at the […]
Craig Bach, DU’s assistant director of alumni information technology, died Feb. 24. He was 48. Bach spent 10 days at Denver’s Exempla Saint Joseph hospital prior to his death. Bach worked at DU for more than five years as part of the Alumni Relations and University Advancement teams. “His talents […]
Andy Benson, the head pro at the Highlands Ranch Golf Club since it opened in 1998, has been honing swings as usual this spring, albeit with one subtle change. He has become a full-time employee of the University of Denver, prompting many of his friends to give Benson a good-natured […]
Gregory Anderson, dean of DU’s Morgridge College of Education, and the school’s senior policy fellow, Barbara O’Brien, will take part in a nationally televised panel discussion Sunday on “Building Blocks of Success: Grade-Level Reading and Colorado’s Future.” The panel discussion — to be held at the new History Colorado Center […]
Matthew Taylor, associate professor in the Department of Geography, will talk about his work in Guatemala at 5 p.m. April 16 in a lecture titled Research and Teaching in the Land of Trees and Volcanoes. Taylor’s lecture is the first in a new series of presentations, lectures and illustrated talks […]
University of Denver Sturm College of Law Professor J. Robert “Jay” Brown Jr. was named April 10 to the new U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Investor Advisory Committee, a 21-member body created by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Brown will be one of only two law […]
University of Denver psychology Professor Wyndol Furman has won the 2012 John P. Hill Memorial Award from the Society for Research on Adolescence. The award — given to one person every two years — recognizes research scientists “whose overall program of work has had a significant impact on our understanding […]
A new student newspaper is available to the DU community starting this week, but the Pioneer Business Review fills a different niche than DU’s 113-year-old student paper, the Clarion. As the name suggests, the Pioneer Business Review has a business focus and is produced with support from the Undergraduate Business […]
The No. 8/10 University of Denver men’s lacrosse team ends its three-game home stand with a visit from No. 4 Loyola in a sold-out game starting at 7 p.m. Saturday. The Pioneers will look to stay perfect in their series with the Greyhounds, as DU holds a 2–0 all-time record against Loyola. The […]