Joanna Ruocco, a PhD candidate in creative writing, has just been awarded FC2’s Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize for “Another Governess/The Least Blacksmith-A Diptych.” The prize includes publication by FC2 and $15,000. Art Professor Lawrence Argent will join award-winning architect Curtis Fentress and designer Michael McCoy in a discussion of […]
Food, Power, and Resistance in the Andes: Exploring Quechua Verbal and Visual Narratives By Alison Krögel Lexington Books, 2011 Food, Power, and Resistance explores the ways in which artistic representations of food and cooks often convey subversive meanings that resist attempts to locate indigenous Andeans — and Quechua women […]
Stoner By John Williams New York Review of Books, 2006 Stoner was John Williams’ third novel, but it’s the one that has earned the former head of DU’s creative writing program the most attention. The tale of a farm boy-turned-college professor has grown from a poor-selling title upon its […]
Colorado Seminary founded March 1864 On March 4, Colorado Territorial Gov. John Evans (pictured) signed into law Bill No. 22, which created a board of trustees “for the purpose of founding, directing, and maintaining an institution of learning, to be styled the Colorado Seminary.” On March 14 that year, […]
Wounded Warrior Project www.woundedwarriorproject.org Raises awareness and enlists the public’s aid for the needs of injured service members; helps injured service members aid and assist each other; and provides direct programs and services to meet the needs of injured service members. Disabled Sports USA www.dsusa.org With more than 100 […]
Last year’s inventory of University-owned art at the Phipps mansion yielded an unexpected but pleasant surprise. Sharp-eyed grad students discovered a 6-inch bronze sculpture—whose whereabouts were unknown for years—lounging in a bucket of brass doorknobs in the mansion’s basement. The sculpture was one of a set of four pieces by […]
Scrawled on the walls of the soda fountain room off the gallery in the Phipps tennis house are the signatures of some of the best tennis players of the 20th century. The names are fading and some of the autographs have been crowded out by the scratching of newlyweds, socialites […]
People living to be 40 years old with the Duchenne muscular dystrophy is rare. I just turned 40 so I felt compelled to share my life story and philosophy about living with Duchenne’s with you. I wrote this especially for others who have muscular dystrophy, their caregivers, and the people […]
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University of Denver in the News
University of Denver in the News
University of Denver in the News
University of Denver in the News
University of Denver in the News
University of Denver in the News