More than a million Americans are legally blind, and, according to the National Federation of the Blind, 5.5 million senior citizens in the country are blind or visually impaired. One in six Americans between the ages of 55 and 64 will lose their eyesight to macular degeneration, and one in […]
The University of Denver’s new athletic director does not like to finish second. “If we were both eating lunch right now, I’d finish first,” she says. “That’s the way I am. I’m always interested in being better, faster and stronger.” Meet Peg Bradley-Doppes. Determined? Utterly. Passionate? Unconditionally. Competitive? You bet. […]
Borderlands story As the father of one your alums and one who greatly appreciates both your wonderful institution and your quest for real life as represented by the hands-on Mexican border experience [“Brownsville or Bust,” summer 2005], let me correct your facts and inferences regarding maquiladoras. I am a principal […]
In discussions about the most significant chancellors in the University’s history, David Hastings Moore rarely comes up. Today Moore is largely forgotten, though he was DU’s first chancellor and an essential figure in the growth and development of Colorado Seminary and the early University of Denver. Moore, the son of […]
When I was 5 or 6, I met César, a kid from Mexico with a huge cowlick and only one hand. Nobody spoke of his punk hairstyle or of the missing hand. The only creature that overtly acknowledged his disability was my grandfather’s horse, Frank. All the kids rode the […]
He loved horses, his daughter said, almost as much as he loved his kin. That might have been an exaggeration, but Addison Baker’s fondness for horses was undisputed. When he died in 1884, Baker’s family erected a life-size statue of his Arabian stallion, Frank, on his burial plot in Denver’s […]
Steve Smith has a serious job negotiating new country franchise agreements for real estate giant ReMax International and assisting with the corporation’s development in Australia, Guam, Singapore and New Zealand. But at lunchtime, Smith exchanges his buttoned-up attire for shorts and a T-shirt. A helmet, kneepads and elbow pads complete […]
With fundamentalism and the culture wars playing out against the vast expanse of American religious experience, the United States is a combustive laboratory for the study of human religiosity. Given this yeasty environment, it’s not surprising that the University’s Department of Religious Studies feels compelled to offer students a deeper […]
As part of a $1.9-million landscaping and infrastructure redesign project, the Harper Humanities Garden has received a facelift. Some of Harper’s water features have morphed into water gardens complete with water lilies, lotuses, cattails, rushes and wild rice. Nearly 100 plants have been installed, including two giant South American lilies. […]
There are simply no words to express my joy at becoming the new chancellor of this truly wonderful university in this truly wonderful city. Our university is a very special one, indeed, with a long history behind it and a brilliant future ahead. I’ve been at DU for 24 years […]
Writers and painters typically work in isolation. So when poet Kathryn (Stitt) Bass and painter Kimberly Graham decided to collaborate, they had to leave their comfort zones. In the end, their risk brought personal peace and critical acclaim. Their exhibit “Within/Without: A Conversation in Poetry and Painting” contains 14 painting/poem […]
In a study of Colorado standardized test results, Adjunct Prof. Lisa Murphy discovered that poverty, above all else, may be responsible for the poor performance of many of the state’s public schools.
It was a wedding that introduced Walter Sorrentino, BSBA ’80, to his lifelong love of music. “When I was in the second grade I was seated next to the drummer at my cousin’s wedding. I thought that was the coolest thing to play those drums.” Forty years later, the Denver […]
Many of today’s parents struggle to balance their need to stay involved in their children’s lives at college and their kids’ need for them to let go. Like universities nationwide, DU is trying to help.
Investing can be a risky business, but portfolio manager Janna Sampson reduces uncertainty by selecting slow, steady, even “stodgy” stocks. Sampson, BA economics and political science ’79, studied industrial economics in the 1980s, learning to examine firms’ long-term economics to forecast how they might weather downturns. Now as director of […]