When Ed Estlow came to the University of Denver in 1939, it was the beginning of a relationship that would last more than 75 years. A standout athlete and scholar during his time at DU, and later chair of the Board of Trustees and founder of the University’s Edward W. […]
The University of Denver women’s soccer team will make its second straight appearance in the NCAA Tournament. The Pioneers will host their in-state rival University of Colorado on Saturday, Nov. 16, at CIBER Field. This is the second consecutive year Denver has hosted a first-round game of the tournament. “I […]
Rather than relaxing on the couch, University of Denver sophomore men’s lacrosse player Colin Woolford is spending his summer cycling across the country. Woolford is part of a six-person group cycling from San Jose, Calif., to New York as part of Bicycles Against Poverty’s Pedal for a Purpose tour. Bicycles […]
As he has nearly every summer since the late 1990s, Jonathan Vaughters is traveling to Europe this week for the Tour de France. This year, however, the former pro cyclist and current team manager will have to return to Denver halfway through the race — to deliver a class project […]
Carolyn Mears, an adjunct faculty member at DU’s Morgridge College of Education, has won a 2013 Colorado Book Award for “Reclaiming School in the Aftermath of Trauma: Advice Based on Experiences” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), an anthology designed to guide educators through the process of moving on, emotionally and academically, in […]
The University of Denver took the No. 2 spot on the 2013 list of top Peace Corps volunteer-producing colleges and universities in the graduate school category, and No. 18 in the undergraduate medium school category. The annual list recognizes the highest volunteer-producing colleges and universities for small, medium, large and […]
Senior engineering majors Patrick Parkinson, James Hills and Kathryn Van Lieshout are working on a potentially life-changing design for amputees. Their concept is to create a post that could be implanted in the bone and attach to a prosthesis—a design that would allow amputees to get rid of the popularly […]
We pulled it off. It doesn’t seem that long ago that the University’s Division of Marketing and Communications was scrambling to put together a press conference to announce that the University of Denver had been chosen to host the first presidential debate of the 2012 election. A year of furious […]
Editor’s note: When the University of Denver debuted its new logo and branding platform in August, we asked subscribers to our email newsletter for alumni to share the ways in which the University has been a catalyst for their purposeful lives. I am a graduate of the Women’s College […]
Studying international disaster psychology in a University of Denver classroom is one thing, but as Erika Childs discovered last summer, putting those lessons into practice in the real world can be even more difficult than one might imagine. Childs, a second-year student in the Graduate School of Professional Psychology’s Master’s […]
A feature in the latest issue of National Geographic features the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, home to the Oglala Lakota. Featuring striking photography by Aaron Huey (BFA ’99) and text by Alexandra Fuller, the cover story also includes a new form of storytelling. Huey, who has spent the past seven […]
At a time when unemployment is still a concern for many qualified workers, DU’s Office of Alumni Relations will co-host the third annual All Colorado Alumni Career Fair from 2–5 p.m. June 12 at the Marriott Denver Tech Center. The event is exclusively for alumni of DU and 12 other […]
After nearly three years as assistant managing editor of the University of Denver Magazine, I took the reins in January, when Chelsey Baker-Hauck (BA ’96) left DU after a decade as the magazine’s managing editor. Chelsey was a tireless advocate for this magazine and its readers, and she leaves big […]
Parking wars at DU Regarding the 1950s memories you asked readers to share in your winter issue: Who remembers the “student riot” at the Bizad campus one spring between 1954 and ’56? Daily, students parked in time-limited parking on the block-long curb across from the Bizad building. A meter maid […]
The Ammi Hyde Award for Recent Graduate Achievement will go to Erik Myhren (MA ’03). Myhren, an elementary school teacher in Denver for the past 14 years, introduced the sport of lacrosse to inner-city kids several years ago, and a handful of them fell in love. The story is so […]