Fighting for Your Marriage By Howard Markman, Scott Stanley and Susan Blumberg Jossey-Bass, May 2010 DU Professors Howard Markman and Scott Stanley have published the newest edition of Fighting for Your Marriage. The book, first published in 1994 and revised in 2001, is updated to reflect significant changes in […]
Seaborn By Craig Moodie (BA ’78) Roaring Book Press, 2008 “I am seastruck—someone entranced by great and small waters alike,” reads the author’s note in Seaborn, a young-adult novel by Craig Moodie. After his mother abruptly moves out prior to the family’s annual sailing trip, 16-year-old Luke and his […]
Most popular majors 1. Biology (undergraduate) 2. Law (graduate) 3. International studies (undergraduate) 4. General business (graduate) 5. International business (undergraduate) 6. Social work (graduate) 7. Finance (undergraduate) 8. Environmental policy and management (graduate) 9. Marketing (undergraduate) 10. Curriculum and instruction (graduate) Office of Institutional Research fall 2009 data […]
And Darkness Was Under His Feet: Stories of a Family By Annie Dawid (PhD English ’89) BookSurge Publishing, 2009 Annie Dawid’s latest book traces her ancestral roots through a collection of short stories from the perspective of her paternal relatives. The collection begins in the early 20th century with […]
Dining etiquette tips 1. As a guest, don’t select the most expensive item on the menu. 2. Don’t be the only person at the table to order an appetizer. 3. If you must leave the table in the middle of the meal, put your napkin on the seat of […]
St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins of Cologne: Relics, Reliquaries and the Visual Culture of Group Sanctity in Late Medieval Europe By Scott Montgomery Peter Lang Press, 2009 The cult of St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgin Martyrs of Cologne was the most widespread relic cult in […]
Dan Baack, assistant professor of marketing in the Daniels College of Business, had a paper, “Strategic Brand Association Maps: Developing Brand Insight,” accepted for forthcoming publication in the Journal of Product and Brand Management. Sturm College of Law Professor George “Rock” Pring was quoted in a May 31, 2010, […]
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I’m long overdue in introducing the newest member of the University of Denver Magazine editorial team. Greg Glasgow joined the magazine in June 2009 after a decade as the arts and entertainment editor at the Boulder Daily Camera. As assistant managing editor of the University of Denver Magazine, he writes […]
No Middle Ground: How Informal Party Organizations Control Nominations and Polarize Legislatures By Seth Masket University of Michigan Press, 2009 No Middle Ground explains how moderates have been left out of politics. “Activists, donors and a few key office-holders work together to pick candidates they like and give those […]
Yoknapatawpha, Images and Voices: A Photographic Study of Faulkner’s County By George Stewart (MA libarianship ’67) University of South Carolina Press, 2009 Yoknapatawpha County—the Southern setting for William Faulkner’s novels—is a fictional place, but as fictional places go it’s one of literature’s most enduring locales. Faulkner based Yoknapatawpha on […]
Law Associate Professor Christine Cimini co-presented “Nuts and Bolts: What Do We Mean By Outcomes and Assessment” at the AALS Annual Clinical Conference in Baltimore on May 5, 2010. She was appointed the Ronald V. Yegge Clinical Director of the Sturm College of Law in May. Adjunct faculty member […]
May 1, 1984 Pioneers radio station KEGH goes on air When KEGH—pronounced “Keg”—hit the airwaves on May 1, 1984, the campus radio station hoped to provide a better programming line-up than its recent predecessor, KAOS, which, according to a Jan. 11, 1982, article in The Clarion, was notorious for […]
Post-1960s musicals 1. Avenue Q 2. Bring in ’Da Noise, Bring in ’Da Funk 3. Cats 4. Company 5. The Lion King 6. Sunday in the Park With George 7. Tommy 8. Urinetown 9. Wicked 10. The Wiz In alphabetical order; compiled by Allison Horsley, assistant professor of […]
Advancing Global Education Patterns of Potential Human Progress series Janet Dickson, Barry Hughes and Mohammod Irfan Paradigm Publishers, 2009 The Patterns of Potential Human Progress series provides a thorough analysis on an array of issues, such as poverty and health, and then predicts trends based on the data. “We look […]