Explosives, world travel and wars. Marc Meyers’ personal and professional adventures in these areas inspired his science fiction thriller Chechnya Jihad (Sunbelt Publications, 2010). Meyers (PhD materials science ’74), an explosives expert and a distinguished professor of materials science at the University of California, San Diego, wove elements of his […]
DU alumni, prospective students and parents around the country now can engage in academic discussions with DU professors without setting foot on campus. In November, the Office of Alumni Relations partnered with Undergraduate Admission to bring lifelong learning events to DU alumni chapter cities in conjunction with the Ammi Hyde […]
Fred Ricles was running errands last spring when the vision in one of his eyes became blurry. “It looked like somebody had splashed coffee all over my contact lens,” the Centennial, Colo., man says. Using iTriage, an iPhone application co-developed by emergency room physician Dr. Wayne Guerra (MBA ’07), Ricles […]
Rebecca (King) Dreman (JD ’77) is a former Miss Colorado who was named Miss America in 1974. But today she’s more like a boxer in a knock-down, drag-out fight — a fight for her life. In September 2010, after she felt a marshmallow-like lump in her arm, doctors gave her […]
Mark Condon is focused on making putting greens even greener. Condon (MA ’84) is the general manager of Red Rocks Country Club, a private golf club located in Morrison, Colo., near the famous Red Rocks Amphitheatre. The club has gardens, two private lakes and 1,000 acres of private open space […]
You won’t find recipes for Beefaroni or canned lasagna in Anna Boiardi’s new cookbook, Delicious Memories (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2011). Instead you’ll learn to make gourmet dishes like ravioli with ricotta and squash filling, cotechino with lentils, and baked fennel with butter and Parmesan. Boiardi (BA ’94), whose great […]
DU has its own viral video star: In 2008, Marlow Cowan (MSW ’49) and his wife, Fran, gave an impromptu concert on the piano in the Mayo Clinic atrium in Rochester, Minn., while killing time between medical tests. Their rollicking performance of “Put on Your Old Gray Bonnet” was filmed […]
As a DU student in the 1970s, Sarah Richards definitely inhaled. But it’s not what you think. It was 1972, and 21-year-old Richards and her friends spilled out of the bus that had dropped them on the edge of the town of Grasse, in Provence, France, the center of the […]
Rebecca (King) Dreman (JD ’77) is a former Miss Colorado who was named Miss America in 1974. But today she’s more like a boxer in a knock-down, drag-out fight — a fight for her life. In September 2010, after she felt a marshmallow-like lump in her arm, doctors gave her […]
What is the key to Rory Vaden’s success? It’s all in his bestselling book, Take the Stairs: 7 Steps to Achieving True Success (Perigree Trade, 2012). Since it was published on Feb. 7, the self-help book has jumped to the top of its category in bestseller lists published by The […]
The University of Denver has announced the recipients of the 2012 Founders Day Awards, which recognize accomplishments of alumni, faculty and staff. The 2012 awards will be handed out at a gala reception March 8 at the Seawell Grand Ballroom in the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. The Evans […]
Moses Brewer is an institution in Denver and around the country, a one-name brand not unlike Beyonce, Plato, Bono and Oprah, says colleague and friend Sylvia Cordy, a PR executive who knows branding. “People don’t say ‘Moses Brewer,’ they say ‘Moses.’ He’s built that kind of reputation,” she says. “Whenever […]
“I gotta go watch plays,” says Jim Wishmier, sounding like a theater critic anticipating another night of drama. He will see drama, all right—compelling acting, plaintive expressions and emotional outbursts from an ensemble cast that might include the likes of Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and Kevin Durant. Indeed, the plays […]
Though they both earned BSBA degrees from DU in 1970, the top executives at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, Jerry Blann and Jay Kemmerer, never met on campus during their undergraduate years. Blann was an All-American on the ski team that won three national championships during his four years at DU. […]
Famed Broadway producer and Tony Award winner Elliot Martin, who attended the University of Denver from 1943–46, was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in New York on Jan. 30. Martin studied theater under one of DU’s most noted professors, Camden Bell. Instead of completing his bachelor’s degree, […]