Dr. Aubrey Fine will present research on the role animals play in the lives of children with ADHD and associated disorders.

The University of Denver Strategic Issues Program in a new report finds that Colorado — like many other states — suffers from a cyclical and structural fiscal imbalance that undermines the state’s fiscal stability over the long term. The Strategic Issues Program (SIP) panel says that while Colorado’s budget situation […]

Popular retired professor Margaret Whitt teaches a session at the 2011 Alumni Symposium.

One concert. Three virtuoso classical guitarists. That’s the experience Lamont Society patrons will get when Los Tres Amigos take the Newman Center stage on Wednesday. The trio, which consists of DU guitar faculty artists Ricardo Iznaola, Masakazu Ito and Jonathan Leathwood, will offer a program of duos and trios by […]

Erskine Bowles will be the first speaker in the 2011–12 Bridges to the Future season. His talk, “American Politics and Issues: The Economic Outlook,” will be held at 7 p.m. Oct. 10 at the University of Denver Magness Arena. Bowles was appointed in 2010 by President Barack Obama to the […]

Due to other commitments, famed opera singer and DU alumnus Hao Jiang Tian (MA ’87) has bowed out of the Lamont School of Music’s inaugural fall opera production of Charles Gounod’s Faust. DU professor and opera director Kenneth Cox, who was scheduled to alternate the role of Mephistopheles with Tian, […]

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 […]

Those who associate ballet with the stylized moves in Swan Lake or Don Quixote are in for a surprise when they see the fiery performances staged by New York-based Ballet Hispanico. While the 41-year-old company has its share of graceful dances set to classical music, it also has pieces like […]

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. […]

With President Barack Obama touching down in Denver to stump for his vision of recovery, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Labor Seth Harris was at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law Sept. 27 to back the president’s newly revealed jobs plan. Speaking at the law school’s Workplace Law Annual […]

Kjell Lindgren didn’t really know how he was going to get there, but from childhood he knew he wanted to explore outer space. Lindgren — now a NASA astronaut — told DU students on Sept. 26 that today’s space programs don’t require students to follow a path through the military […]

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 […]

The University of Denver is at a turning point in its history — at the zenith of its 147 years — but it can go much further if opportunities are seized upon, said Chancellor Robert Coombe on Sept. 22. Coombe addressed more than 700 faculty and staff members at the […]

NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren will visit with students and deliver a presentation in the Boettcher Center auditorium from 3:30–5 p.m. Sept. 26 as part of the agency’s traveling “Destination: Station” program. Lindgren was selected in June 2009 as one of 14 members of the 20th NASA astronaut class. He recently graduated […]

On March 11, 2011, the world watched as an 8.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Japan triggered a tsunami on the northeastern coast of the country. Masakazu Ito watched in disbelief. “The devastation, the overpowering force of the water … I just knew I wanted to do my part to […]