If you want a sneak peek at jazz singer Jane Monheit’s Oct. 18 concert at the Newman Center for the Performing Arts, get your hands on a copy of her newest album, 2010’s Home. Recorded with the same trio that will accompany her at the Newman Center — pianist Michael […]
An intensive, strategic push to improve the Colorado bar exam passage rates of DU Sturm College of Law graduates is paying off. The results from the July 2011 bar exam are in, and DU law students posted a 90 percent passage rate for first-time takers. That’s before appeals, which could […]
Dean Dormady (MBA ’10) was a chubby kid who got picked on by his classmates. Carolyn Francis (MBA ’10) gained 60 pounds when she got pregnant with her first child. Together, they might have been voted most unlikely to get off the couch, much less start a fitness-oriented company. But […]
DU’s creative writing PhD program recently took first place in 2012 rankings by Poets & Writers magazine. This is the first year that the Poets &Writers has published two lists: one for MFA programs and one for PhD programs. DU offers a doctorate in creative writing, while many creative writing […]
It was a mere inch — perhaps even just a fraction of an inch — that haunted Kellan Christensen for years. As Christensen watched what would become the penultimate shot of the DU men’s soccer team’s 2007 season sail through the air, the stakes became evident. A true strike would […]
DU’s Department of Media, Film and Journalism and the Estlow Center for New Media are hosting “Journalism in the Public Interest,” a one-day event that offers journalists and interested community members insight into a variety of topics affecting the media today. Three citizen journalists from Cameroon, Cambodia, and Colombia will […]
There is little question the memories come with a whiff of sadness every time Gordon Cooper recalls his remarkable football career at the University of Denver. Those memories, after all, are all Cooper and the former Pioneers gridiron greats have to cherish besides the grainy, fading photos of a program […]
Popular retired professor Margaret Whitt teaches a session at the 2011 Alumni Symposium.
It’s not easy starting a business in one of the worst economies in history. It’s not easy starting a business while working a full-time job. And it’s not easy starting a business while raising two children. But somehow, law alumna Suzanne Wilson (JD ’04) and husband Ben Focht, a DU […]
Denver men’s soccer begins its defense of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation regular season crown when the Pioneers take on in-state rival Air Force at CIBER Field at 7 p.m. Saturday. DU is 23-25-4 all-time against the Falcons but is 6-0-1 in the past seven meetings and 15-3-1 since 2000. […]
Interest in DU Pioneers hockey is high as students began camping out for season tickets more than 24 hours in advance. Tents and barbecues began dotting the area outside the Ritchie Center box office on Sept. 23. Season tickets for students went on sale the morning of Sept. 24. The […]
Former DU men’s basketball player Phil Heath won the 2011 Mr. Olympia contest, beating out four-time winner Jay Cutler (2006, 2007, 2009, 2010). The contest ran from Sept. 15–18 in Las Vegas. Nicknamed “The Gift,” Heath became the 13th Mr. Olympia winner since the contest started in 1965, joining the […]
Last year, DU’s women’ soccer team plowed its way through the Sun Belt Conference regular season, sweeping all 11 conference opponents en route to the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament. DU won its first two tournament games to earn a spot against Middle Tennessee for the conference title […]
Since announcing his intention to run for president in 2012, Fred Karger has made a name for himself as the openly gay Jewish Republican candidate whose platform includes reforming education, lowering the voting age and bringing a spirit of cooperation back to Washington. Lately, though, Karger (BA speech communication ’72) […]
DU’s Center for Judaic Studies and Holocaust Awareness Institute will host a ceremony to mark the completion of the first phase of the Holocaust Memorial Social Action Site. The event, which is free, will be held at 12:30 p.m. Sept. 18 at the site, which is located at the base […]