Whistles, waves, claps and an occasional “Way to go, Mom” accompanied nearly 1,000 master’s and doctoral students who participated in DU’s 2011 graduate Commencement June 3 at Magness Arena. During the ceremony, keynote speaker Judith Miscik (MA international studies ’82) received an honorary doctorate of public service from Chancellor Robert […]
When a University of Denver professor looking for a solution found engineering students looking for a problem, the result was the definition of DUing. Geography Associate Professor Matthew Taylor has spent 15 years working in rural Guatemala, helping the poorest inhabitants live better lives. He and his students have […]
One day, Grace Kittle will look back on her time at the University of Denver, and her most vivid memories will involve making history and enduring pain. When Kittle picks up her bachelor’s degree at DU’s undergraduate Commencement on June 4, she will do so as the most decorated and […]
While her ancestors looked up at the stars under dark Western skies and pondered the heavens, Charee Peters has wrestled with complicated formulas and mathematics to try to unravel those same mysteries. When Peters walks across the stage and graduates from the University of Denver on June 4, it’s believed […]
Don’t mistake Jeannette Le for your stereotypical sorority girl. The 22-year-old, who will graduate from DU on June 4, represents the less celebrated side of the Greek system. She works much harder than she plays. Le will get dual degrees — a bachelor’s degree in business administration and international business […]
On June 3, Richard Froude will collect his doctoral degree in creative writing from DU. Days later, the 32-year-old will begin pre-med courses at the University of Colorado-Denver, with hopes that by 2013 he’ll have the science background required for medical school. The doctoral degree, improbably, is the prologue to […]
From north to south, breakfast to dinner, pancakes to pizza, these 26 alumni-owned restaurants are putting DU on Denver’s culinary map.
Peter Morton created the world’s most popular rock ’n’ roll restaurant. Then he opened a hotel that changed Las Vegas forever. Now what?
“Opening a restaurant is fun,” says Frank Bonanno. “It’s the running of them that’s tedious.” Maybe that explains why the 43-year-old Denver restaurateur has opened three new places in the past three years: the cozy noodle bar Bones, which sits on the same block as his flagships Mizuna and Luca […]
Most music schools teach students how to perform on stage, but they don’t teach skills for performance in the business world. Ramon “Ray” Ricker (BME ’65) fills in the missing notes to help aspiring musicians avoid becoming starving artists in his book Lessons From a Street-Wise Professor: What You Won’t […]
There’s a saying in marketing that you sell the sizzle, not the steak. That works if you’re selling something that has sizzle. But when it’s your job to promote more sedate commodities like potatoes, honey and wool, the hurdles become a little bigger. Unless you’re Lori Garcia-McGehee (BBA ’95). A […]
When they were seniors at DU, Maddy D’Amato (BA sociology ’08) and Alex Hasulak (BSBA ’08) called on their fellow students to help them perfect their granola recipe, bringing samples to campus for their classmates to taste and evaluate. Three years later, the pair’s Love Grown Foods granola is on […]
From community-supported agriculture and farm-to-table restaurants to bestselling books by Michael Pollan and Barbara Kingsolver, fresh, local food is all the rage in culinary America. The problem, says Lisa Rogers, is that fresh and local isn’t as easy to come by as people think. All looks good at Whole Foods […]
Steele Platt (BSBA hotel and restaurant management ’82) remembers the day he arrived in Newport Beach, Calif., back in 1990. He had a brand new Mercedes and a briefcase filled with $100,000. He knew the day marked the end of his successful career in Denver’s restaurant and nightclub industry, but […]
If you were a kid in the late 1800s and early 1900s, you lived in a heady time: Coca-Cola, cotton candy, Life Savers and Popsicles all were invented during that era. But adults, arguably, had it even better. Until Prohibition, “Americans were the best cocktail makers in the world. People […]