The University of Denver men’s soccer team has played an extremely difficult schedule to date, and the challenge continues as the Pioneers welcome No. 25 Cal State-Bakersfield at 7 p.m. Oct. 28 at CIBER Field. “As we enter the last two weekends in the regular season, we need to get […]
Classical music lovers will be able to hear a duo of Lamont legends for a song. Cellist Richard Slavich and pianist Theodor Lichtmann will present a distinctive faculty recital called “Chansons Tristes.” The recital’s theme is song and will feature Paul Hindemith’s Variations on an Old-English Nursery Song: A frog […]
The University of Denver is being recognized with dual proclamations from Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and Denver Mayor Michael Hancock that declare Oct. 22, 2011, “University of Denver Pioneer Athletics Day.” The proclamations recognize DU’s fourth-consecutive Learfield Sports I-AAA Directors Cup, which is awarded annually to the highest achieving non-football […]
Deborah Zalesne, visiting professor of law, authored “Why Don’t They Get it?: Academic Intelligence and the Under-Prepared Student as ‘Other’” forthcoming in the fall 2011 Journal of Legal Education. She co-authored a chapter, “Teaching Issue Spotting Explicitly and Integrating the Skill of Note Taking into a Doctrinal Class,” in Techniques […]
The Berlin Philharmonic has more than 100 musicians and is considered one of the best orchestras in the world. The Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet has only five members, but has been described as “arguably the best ensemble of its kind in the world” by the Manchester Evening News. And DU […]
The University of Denver swimming and diving teams kick off their season at noon Oct. 15 at the El Pomar Natatorium in DU’s Ritchie Center when they host Wyoming at the Denver Relays. The Pioneers closed last season on a high note, winning both the Sun Belt Conference (SBC) men’s […]
The purveyors of harmony at the Lamont School of Music will celebrate people who want more harmony in the world with a concert featuring Michael Weiss. The Lamont Jazz Ensemble, Lamont Jazz Orchestra and Contemporary Combo will perform with Weiss, while the combo will play tunes written by the jazz […]
October 2010 Alumni win award for Tuskegee Airmen documentary It took communication majors Shane Carrick (BA ’08) and Bobby Deline (BA ’07) a few tries to find the right subject for their documentary film, but when they met Lt. Col. James Harvey they knew they had their man. Harvey, who […]
One concert. Three virtuoso classical guitarists. That’s the experience Lamont Society patrons will get when Los Tres Amigos take the Newman Center stage on Wednesday. The trio, which consists of DU guitar faculty artists Ricardo Iznaola, Masakazu Ito and Jonathan Leathwood, will offer a program of duos and trios by […]
Rebuilding Justice: Civil Courts in Jeopardy and Why You Should Care By Rebecca Love Kourlis and Dirk Olin Fulcrum Publishing, 2011 “The court system lies at the heart of our democracy, and it is in jeopardy.” That’s the conclusion of Rebecca Love Kourlis, founder and executive director of the University […]
Art Professor Lawrence Argent has unveiled his latest installation, Leap —a 12,000-pound, 56-foot-long red rabbit suspended in an atrium in the Sacramento International Airport. “In the visual bedlam of an airport, it gives you a moment of reflection,” Argent told the Sacremento Bee. “You will think about something the piece […]
1. The global war on terror to capture and kill transnational terrorists and support U.S. allies with counterterrorism assistance 2. Invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq, with approximately 6,000 U.S. casualties and more than $1 trillion spent 3. A new federal government agency—the Department of Homeland Security—with an annual […]
Mystery solved Thank you to John Vaccaro (BA ’59, MA ’64) of Escondido, Calif.; Sterling Nelson (BSBA ’56, MBA ’71) of Evergreen, Colo.; and Don Cushing (BA ’56, MA ’62) of Highlands Ranch, Colo., who wrote in to identify the football players who appeared in the photo on page 51 […]
It’s inevitable when we publish a themed edition of the University of Denver Magazine that something gets left out — stories we didn’t know about or didn’t have room for. Thanks to our readers, we’re now aware of a handful of alumni-owned restaurants that didn’t make our summer 2011 “DU-licious” […]
Performances by Lamont School of Music students Niki Robins, Gergana Argirova, Valane Adam Lusk and Alaina Oltrogge