Susie Heller (BA education ’72) has cooked up quite the career over the past 25 years. After a chance meeting with the famous Jacques Pépin in 1985, Heller began working as a culinary producer on his television show and on shows with his friend Julia Child. She’s since produced dozens […]
Lunch boxes are more than a hobby for alum and restaurant owner Bryan Ehrenholm.
Michael Perry sees opportunities everywhere, and he doesn’t like to waste them. Perry came to Colorado hoping to play soccer and study business. That’s all. And while on campus, he did both those things well enough to be selected team captain and to be named first team academic All-American, an […]
Sarah Cambidge grew up in Vancouver, B.C. She was 12 years old when a woman approached her and her mother after a choir performance and told her to keep the University of Denver in mind when she was looking for colleges. Years later, Cambidge’s mom remembered that encounter and suggested […]
Blair Taylor (BSBA hotel and restaurant management ’74) is well known around Denver for his award-winning Cherry Creek restaurant, Barolo Grill, and its legendary annual staff trip to Italy. What most Denverites don’t know is that the fine-food aficionado also owns Enotec Imports, a boutique Italian wine importer. By age […]
Kyle Schlachter (BS environmental science ’03) turned his passion for dirt into a love of wine. The geography PhD student studies and markets the Colorado wine industry for a living. Schlachter began writing his dissertation on lake sediment and fire reconstruction but became distracted by his developing interest in wine. […]
Joel Portman started his career at DU as a management major. But try as he might, he couldn’t shake the notion that he was learning more about leadership from his extracurricular activities than from his classes. Then again, he didn’t spend his free time just hanging out or going to […]
Just listening to Ericca McCutcheon’s summer plans is exhausting. The senior, who will graduate with a bachelor’s degree in business administration with minors in economics and leadership, already has been accepted into a program at the University of Notre Dame that will give her a two-year scholarship to earn her […]
The DU men’s lacrosse team has turned in the greatest season in program history, culminating with the program’s first-ever trip to the NCAA Final Four. While the magical season ended with a 14-8 loss to eventual NCAA champion Virginia in the national semifinals on May 28, the program can look […]
Nearly 1,130 undergraduate students are expected to receive their DU diplomas at Commencement this year. Former Cisco President and CEO John Morgridge will be this year’s speaker. Morgridge joined computer networking company Cisco in 1988 as president and CEO and took the company public two years later. In 1995, he […]
DU international studies Professor Jonathan Adelman describes Nicholas Bowen as a throwback in the very best sense of the word. Most university students enroll to forge a career, prepare to join a think tank or to build upon an existing academic body of work. Bowen simply wanted to absorb as […]
Nearly 1,000 graduate students are expected to receive their DU diplomas at Commencement this year. Jami Miscik, a former deputy director of the CIA, will be the featured speaker. During Miscik’s 20-year intelligence career, she was responsible for all of the CIA’s intelligence analysts, the production of all source analysis […]
He lived through the earliest battles of World War II, and barely survived some of its cruelest crimes. Before Ben Steele earned his master’s degree at the University of Denver in 1955, his life as an artist began in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in the Philippines. The first […]
Fueled by three-goal performances from senior Todd Baxter and sophomore Cameron Flint, the No. 6-seeded University of Denver men’s lacrosse team defeated the No. 3-seeded Johns Hopkins Blue Jays 14-9 in the second game of the Hofstra quarterfinals at Shuart Stadium in Hempstead, N.Y. With the victory, the Pioneers (15-2) […]
Alan Frosh (BA political science ’05) can’t remember a time when words like “philanthropy,” “service” and “community engagement” weren’t in his vocabulary. Frosh — who will graduate on May 21 with a JD from DU’s Sturm College of Law — is the chairman and founder of the Gordian Fund, a […]