Lessons From a Street-Wise Professor: What You Won’t Learn at Most Music Schools By Ramon Ricker Soundown Inc., 2011 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 […]
These are a few of Sarah Carlton Vryan Proctor’s favorite things: travel, Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, history, the classics, political science, The Athens Banner Herald, The Economist, the Georgia Museum of Art, her family, and a close community of friends. Then there are the pleasantries that make life […]
Florence Dunning Sikes (BA theatre ’55, MA theatre ’60) dedicated her life to helping others achieve success in theater and performance. Sikes — who passed away in July 2009 — was so passionate about her vocation that she donated a portion of her estate to DU’s theater department to support the […]
On Nov. 10, 2006, University of Denver law graduate Frank Bingham endured his greatest personal tragedy when a drunk driver crashed into his family as they walked across a downtown Denver street, killing his wife and two young children. On May 10, 2011, Bingham stood before civic leaders and supporters […]
Richard Lapchick could have rested on his laurels after receiving a bevy of awards commemorating his work in the area of civil rights, including a lifetime achievement award from Jesse Jackson. But, he won’t. In the past few months, Lapchick (MA ’70, PhD ’73, international studies) has been inducted into […]
Students, faculty and alumni from the Lamont School of Music brass department will gather to perform in celebration of Joe Docksey, the director of the school who’s retiring this summer. “Joe is deeply loved by all his students,” says Kathy Brantigan, Lamont tuba instructor. Brantigan says 12 alumni of the […]
Joy Burns, already an iconic name on campus, recently was honored for three decades of service to the University of Denver and the Daniels College of Business when DU officials named the building that houses the Knoebel School of Hospitality Management the Joy Burns Center. Burns and her late husband, […]
The 1960 movie Where the Boys Are changed the city of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., forever. Starring icons of the time such time George Hamilton, Paula Prentiss and Connie Francis, the beach-set comedy — filmed in Fort Lauderdale — turned the town into a spring break destination at a time when […]
Construction is underway on DU’s Holocaust Memorial Social Action Site. The site, located between Penrose Library and the Margery Reed Building, is expected to be complete in early May. “This project is less about a new space than it is about the things that take place on our campus in […]
More than 170 students, faculty and staff at the University of Denver took part April 22 in an Earth Day celebration of sustainability as students presented the DU’s second annual Earth Day Summit. Summit co-founders Megan Marshall and Mariah Shell said they were pleased with the turnout as scores of […]
If you’ve walked past the Driscoll Bridge in the last six weeks, you probably noticed the construction scaffolding over Evans Avenue or the bright, new copper roof. That’s because workers have been replacing the roof on the Driscoll University Center. University Architect Mark Rodgers says that in an ideal world, […]
Ignacio Jimenez and Tina Rice-Jimenez launched their import business a little more than a year ago. Although the specific moment that inspired the business may be hard to nail down, its ultimate origin dates back to the 1980s, when Tina and Ignacio were students at the University of Denver. “My […]
University of Denver junior gymnast Brianna Springer finished 17th in the all-around competition and freshman Jorie Hall was 35th on the balance beam at the 2011 NCAA women’s gymnastics championships April 15 in Cleveland. Springer finished with a 38.325 in the all-around, scoring a 9.775 on vault, 9.675 on beam, […]
Two University of Denver students and a recent graduate shared stories of following their passions and personal journeys on April 14 at TEDxDUSalon, a student-organized event devoted to “ideas worth spreading.” Julie Markham (BSBA ’10), founder of Greenlighted, a company that raises money for nonprofits by offering deals from socially […]
Mary Peace Finley has milked a trout, traveled the Santa Fe Trail in a wagon and eaten buffalo cooked in a primitive underground oven, all in the name of research for her award-winning young adult books. “I do what my characters do, and it is a hoot,” says the Boulder, […]