The top 10 countries hitting www.du.edu: 1. United States (Obvious) 2. India (Would have thought China. Chinese students are DU’s largest international student population.) 3. China (There you are! Indian students are DU’s third largest international student population.) 4. Canada (Maybe because we have a hockey team. A good one.) 5. United […]
Werewolf Smackdown By Mario Acevedo Harper Voyager, 2010 Felix Gomez, Latino vampire detective extraordinaire, tackles a dangerous werewolf cabal in the fifth installment in University of Denver alumnus Mario Acevedo‘s (MCIS ’98) satirical supernatural series. A sure-to-be-bloody civil war is brewing between rival werewolf factions, and P.I . Felix Gomez […]
Poets on Teaching: A Sourcebook Edited by Joshua Marie Wilkinson University of Iowa Press 2010 In response to a lack of source works for wide-ranging approaches to teaching poetry, award-winning poet and University of Denver alum Joshua Marie Wilkinson (PhD English ’07) has gathered 99 short essays for poets, critics […]
Mike Keables, associate dean in the Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and associate professor in the Department of Geography, has been appointed interim dean of DU’s School of Engineering and Computer Science effective Sept. 1. Frank Tuitt, associate professor in the Morgridge College of Education, has been appointed as […]
Aug. 5, 1967 Denver Broncos play at DU Today we take the National Football League’s AFC and NFC conferences for granted, but there was a time when the long-established NFL and the upstart American Football league absolutely hated each other. In 1970 the two leagues would merge, but prior to […]
Most-viewed DU videos on YouTube 1. Jesse Martin Speaks at TEDxDU Express 2. Skiing on Carnegie Green 3. DU’s Jesse Martin 4. Why I Chose DU 5. Condoleezza Rice: Facing Forward, Looking Back 6. Finding DNA Markers for Forensic Testing 7. Update on Hockey Player Jesse Martin’s Injuries 8. WOLF […]
Chancellor Robert Coombe has been named to the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce board of directors. Law assistant professors Christopher Lasch, Robin Walker Sterling and Patience Crowder co-presented “At SEA (Sympathy, Empathy, and Apathy): Teaching Students to Distinguish Between and Strategically Select Modes of Communication” at the AALS Clinical Conference […]
East of Denver By Gregory Hill Dutton Adult, 2012 East of Denver tells the story of Shakespeare Williams, who returns to his family’s farm in eastern Colorado to find his widowed, senile father living in squalor. Facing the loss of the farm, Shakespeare hatches a plot with his father […]
Defending National Treasures: French Art and Heritage Under Vichy By Elizabeth Campbell Karlsgodt Stanford University Press, 2011 In Defending National Treasures, Karlsgodt examines lasting preservation policies created during the Nazi occupation, as well as the effort by French curators to acquire works of art from Jewish collections for the […]
July 1989 Chancellor Dan Ritchie inaugurated When Daniel Ritchie accepted the job as the University of Denver’s 16th chancellor, he intended to hold the position just long enough to guide the institution—$2 million in debt at the time—from the brink of ruin before returning to the open acres of […]
A lot of students make the journey to college to “find themselves.” Some, like Vanessa Teck, know their path long before. “I think just being Asian-American, being considered a minority, really made me passionate about diversity,” the DU junior says. “I wouldn’t want what my parents suffered through to happen […]
A new study from DU’s Center for Marital and Family Studies finds that for active-duty male soldiers in the Army who are happily married, communicating frequently with one’s spouse during deployment may protect against the development of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A DU research team studied information from 193 […]
Joyce Sterling, professor in the Sturm College of Law, discussed “Perspectives on Gender and Diversity in Law Firms” on a panel at the Law and Society Association Annual meeting in San Francisco in June. At the meeting, she also co-presented “Why Do Women Take the ‘Off Ramps’ or ‘Opt Out’ […]
June 18, 1884 DU awards diploma to its first graduate On June 18, 1884, trustees, faculty and students crowded into the First Baptist Church for the first annual Commencement of the University of Denver. John Hipp, the son of German and Swiss immigrants and the sole graduate that year, […]
The next world power I greatly enjoyed the article “China on the Rise” [winter 2010]. It reminded me of my first quarter at DU (fall of ’64). I had enrolled for a class called The Rise of the West. I had no idea what I was in store for; it […]