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Lamont Featured Performance: Alumnus Marcus Ostermiller performs to raise money for scholarship fund

Lamont Featured Performance: Alumnus Marcus Ostermiller performs to raise money for scholarship fund

Joshua Gomes was working toward a double degree in pre-medicine and pre-law at the University of Denver when AIDS took his life. The Joshua Gomes Memorial Scholarship Fund aims to lay a path for hope for young adults with HIV/AIDS by providing academic scholarships to universities of their choice. DU […]

Former high school tennis rivals on the same side of the net at DU

Former high school tennis rivals on the same side of the net at DU

Throughout competitive sports, there are stories of adversaries becoming friends. After all, no one else knows the pain of defeat and the joy of victory better. In college football, the relationship between head coaches Woody Hayes of Ohio State and Bo Schembechler of Michigan is the stuff of lore. In […]

DU to hold annual Ash Wednesday services

DU will mark Ash Wednesday and the beginning of the Lenten season with four services Feb. 22 at Evans Chapel. DU Chaplain Gary Brower will lead nondenominational services at 7:45 a.m. and 4:45 p.m. Brother John Ignatius, a local priest, will lead Roman Catholic services at noon and 9 p.m. […]

DU launches countdown clock, logo for 2012 presidential debate

DU launches countdown clock, logo for 2012 presidential debate

With fanfare from the pep band accompanied by cheerleaders and dancers, University of Denver  students, faculty, staff and alumni celebrated Presidents’ Day by unveiling the logo for the Oct. 3 presidential debate and cranking up the countdown clock. Only 226 days until DU hosts the first presidential debate ever in […]

DU live-streaming Monday’s debate kickoff event

Be part of the excitement: The University of Denver will start its countdown clock to the Oct. 3 presidential debate — the first presidential debate ever held in Colorado and the first debate of the 2012 presidential election — at noon Monday (Presidents’ Day) at Sidelines Pub in the Driscoll […]

Jazz instructor’s career hitting high notes

Jazz instructor’s career hitting high notes

Donna Wickham’s musical career is hitting some high notes. Last fall she released two CDs in one month, and both are getting rave reviews. Wickham (BM ’00, MM ’03), a DU alumna who heads up the vocal jazz program at the Lamont School of Music, celebrated the release of a […]

DU to stream full day of TED2012 programming Feb. 29

DU to stream full day of TED2012 programming Feb. 29

If Long Beach, Calif., is too far to travel for the sold-out TED2012 conference, take heart: DU will live stream a full day of the five-day “conference of ideas” from 9 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Feb. 29 in the commons at Ruffatto Hall. Devoted to “ideas worth spreading” and bringing together luminaries […]

Inclusive excellence: DU surveying campus climate

The University of Denver, under the leadership of the Center for Multicultural Excellence, is conducting an inclusive excellence assessment. The survey is designed to gather baseline data about the campus climate surrounding issues of diversity, inclusion and equity on campus. Inclusive excellence is the recognition that a community or institution’s […]

Colorado Supreme Court justice to deliver DU Law Commencement address

Colorado Supreme Court justice to deliver DU Law Commencement address

Colorado Supreme Court Justice Brian Boatright will deliver the address at the May 19 Commencement ceremonies for the Sturm College of Law. Boatright, a 1988 DU law graduate, was appointed to the Supreme Court by Gov. John Hickenlooper. He was sworn in on Nov. 21. Prior to joining the Supreme […]

DU celebrates Presidents’ Day by starting debate countdown clock

Be part of the excitement: The University of Denver will start its countdown clock to the Oct. 3 presidential debate — the first presidential debate ever held in Colorado and the first debate of the 2012 presidential election — at noon Monday (Presidents’ Day) at Sidelines Pub in the Driscoll […]

Game of the week: Men’s basketball vs. Louisiana-Lafayette

The men’s basketball team returns home for its final three regular-season games, beginning with Louisiana-Lafayette (ULL) on Thursday. The Pioneers, who have compiled an 18–8 record overall and are 8–5 in the Sun Belt Conference, were edged 72–71 in overtime by ULL at the Cajundome on Feb. 2, when Elfrid […]

Furniture fair gathers feedback for the Academic Commons project

Furniture fair gathers feedback for the Academic Commons project

Dozens of University of Denver students, faculty and staff made their way to the Ritchie Center Feb. 7–8 for a two-day “furniture fair,” helping to pick the pieces that will fill the Academic Commons. Participants got the chance to touch, sit on and examine more than 60 pieces of furniture, […]

Daffodil Days a tribute to mom lost to cancer

Daffodil Days a tribute to mom lost to cancer

In 2003, at the age of 49, Vickie Lynn Petrey discovered a lump in her breast. She had lost her medical insurance coverage when her husband retired, so she put off getting a diagnosis despite having visible signs of breast cancer. “I spent hours researching cancer resources and found the […]

Lamont Featured Performance: The Playground celebrates the legacy of composer Henryk Górecki

Lamont Featured Performance: The Playground celebrates the legacy of composer Henryk Górecki

The Playground Ensemble, artist-in-residence at DU’s Lamont School of Music, pays tribute to Polish composer Henryk Górecki in a concert on Feb. 15. The Playground is a group of professional musicians and composers dedicated to presenting classical music as a living art form. Through its varied outreach programs, the Playground […]

Alum Moses Brewer still building relationships at 65

Alum Moses Brewer still building relationships at 65

Moses Brewer is an institution in Denver and around the country, a one-name brand not unlike Beyonce, Plato, Bono and Oprah, says colleague and friend Sylvia Cordy, a PR executive who knows branding. “People don’t say ‘Moses Brewer,’ they say ‘Moses.’ He’s built that kind of reputation,” she says. “Whenever […]