A hottie with a body. Speaks French, English, German, Russian and Japanese. An astounding scholar who is interested in philosophy and psychodynamic psychology. Helpful, easy to talk and listen to and very, very easy on the eyes. Sound like a personal ad? It isn’t. It’s an evaluation of a DU […]
The Downtown Aurora Visual Arts (DAVA) organization offers free, after-school art programs weekdays for youth from low economic levels and high crime areas. DAVA serves approximately 700 students per year. When DAVA was created 12 years ago, the area had no after-school programs. Executive Director Susan Jenson, MA ’98, […]
Whether they’re interested in recording jazz, rock or classical music, students at the Lamont School of Music have the advantage of learning the art of audio production in the Newman Center’s recording studio. Students in the Bachelor of Music Audio Production concentration who are preparing for a career in music recording […]
In northern Ghanaian villages, women tend bees and throw pots, generating products for the microbusinesses they established with the help of DU doctoral student and alumnus Ziblim Abukari. Abukari, who was the first person in his family to have any formal education, saw the affect he could have on “the […]
Senior Emily Hungerford was one of a few undergraduates in the graduate-level Urban Landscapes geography class. She’s not the geography department’s next young star; she’s a sociology major earning credit in urban studies, her minor. One of DU’s few interdisciplinary minors, the urban studies minor was started four years ago […]
Although she lives and works 1,000 miles away in California, alumna Angela (Maestas) Robbins’ heart belongs at DU. As a senior educational administrator with the Los Angeles County Office of Education, Robbins, BA ’91, coordinates a program that allows at-risk students to learn from DU professors. Each summer, she sends […]
Brandon Davis is racing his way through college. Literally. When the DU junior isn’t speed-reading through his business management textbooks, he’s speed shifting through the turns and twists of racetracks around the country. Davis hits the gas in one of his souped-up Acura racecars for 20 or 30 auto races […]
Don’t expect to find the video game “Juan and the Beanstalk” at Best Buy. Currently in development by Rafael Fajardo, players decide whether to grow coffee or opium in a multi-chapter game intended to express the social complexity of Columbia of the past 30 years. Fajardo, assistant professor of art […]
Since 1992, the University of Denver has graduated more than 30,000 students with bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees. It has also graduated more than 200 13- and 14- year-olds. DU’s young students attend the Ricks Center for Gifted Children, which serves some 275 students from pre-K through eighth grade. Founded […]
Melinda Pasquini was making pizza in her family’s Italian restaurant by the time she was 8. In old-world tradition, she worked alongside her immigrant parents and American-born siblings in the afternoons after school. Now in her early 30s, Pasquini is running two Front Range restaurants of her own while attending […]
In 2005 alone, Larry Conyers searched for military and ancient graves in Hawaii, mapped tortoise burrows in central Florida, investigated a former settlement in New York’s Central Park, analyzed the La Brea tar pits and researched 5,000-year-old pit-house villages on the Oregon coast. Plus, he worked on sites in Scotland, […]
In August, the University awarded an honorary degree to visiting scholar Xinzheng Zhang, the vice minister of education for the Peoples Republic of China. During his visit here, we talked at some length about the efforts that many U.S. universities are making to attract international students and scholars, build study-abroad […]
When I graduated from DU in 1996, I thought “alumni” referred to graduates who gave money to the University. I graduated with a hefty debt and at the time had no plans to otherwise contribute to DU; alas, I thought “alumni” was a club I’d never join. Was I ever […]
A DU panel recommends a painful prescription to maintain the state’s fiscal health.
Alumni Deena and Peter Hoagland have found healing in an unlikely place.