Denver’s mayoral candidates will gather at DU on April 20 to debate the city’s most pressing issues. Debate hosts 9News and The Denver Post invited all nine candidates to appear in the debate, which will cover topics suggested by viewers of 9News. Viewers can email suggested debate questions to debates@9news.com. […]
University of Denver students, faculty and staff will celebrate sustainability with the second annual Earth Day Summit April 22, featuring speakers who will share secrets of incorporating ecological practices into everyday work and play. The lineup of speakers and panelists include a rock star, a restaurateur, an artist, former student […]
DU’s Festival of Nations is a way to travel the world without leaving campus. According to Sarah Hillis-Kauffman, an international business major and one of the event organizers, the tradition of the Festival of Nations at DU is an opportunity for students and community members to learn about cultural diversity. […]
DU has developed an app for Android devices. The app is now available through the Android Market. The app is free and allows access to DU’s online directory, DU Today news updates and links to athletics department and campus programs, including TEDxDU. “We have received many positive comments from the […]
Noted public intellectual Noam Chomsky will speak about U.S. foreign policy at 7 p.m. April 21 at DU’s Hamilton Gymnasium. Chomsky, a professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will give a talk entitled “Dilemmas in U.S. Foreign Policy.” The event is free. Register online for tickets, […]
From the beginning, part of Alarm Will Sound’s musical mission was creating “event” concerts with elements of theater and overarching themes. With “1969,” the 20-piece, New York-based chamber orchestra has come the closest yet to realizing that initial vision, says artistic director and conductor Alan Pierson. “Music, especially contemporary music, […]
The 16th annual DU Women’s Conference on April 8 focused on the theme “Change and Transformation: One Woman at a Time.” While workshops and presentations reinforced the theme, it was the conference’s keynote speaker who really brought the point home. DU Professor Emerita Margaret Whitt said she was a young […]
Members of the DU community can find out what’s so special about the buildings they walk by every day during the 7th annual Doors Open Denver, a two-day event that gives the public free access to some of the city’s most interesting and historic buildings. “Denver is a city that […]
Bringing to life the trauma soldiers experience at war isn’t easy, but it’s what fine art photographer Jennifer Karady has done in her exhibition In Country: Soldier’s Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan. For the project, Karady interviewed American soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Karady asked each veteran to […]
Wednesday night at the Cable Center, James O’Toole — Daniels Chair of Business Ethics — introduced the evening’s speaker, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, as “the man who invented coffee.” “Remember back to those terrible days when if we wanted a cup of joe, we had to go to our local […]
Peer into the final years of grand-scale Italian opera and its final master Giacomo Puccini when the Lamont Opera Theatre and the Lamont Opera Program present two, one-act Puccini operas, Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi, April 14–17 at DU’s Newman Center for the Performing Arts. “Suor Angelica is a beautiful, […]
The University of Denver has submitted an application to host a presidential or vice presidential debate in fall 2012. It marks the first time DU has competed for one of the nationally televised events that occur just before the November election. Last week, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced that […]
Registration for DU’s second TEDxDU event will open April 5. TEDxDU features more than 15 speakers in a fast-paced afternoon of ideas, inspiration, and performance themed around the idea of radical collaboration. Speakers include former Ambassador Christopher Hill, TED speaker and animal welfare activist Temple Grandin, collaborative musician John Common […]
Audrey Horning, an archaeology professor, or “reader” as they’re known across the pond, at England’s University of Leicester, will give two talks April 4–5. Horning — the Western Cultural Resource Management Inc. Distinguished Scholar in Historical Archaeology and Marsico Visiting Scholar — will give her first talk at noon on […]
Hear how a remarkable group of women defied societal norms and expectations in order to pursue their passion for archaeology by attending the 5th annual Penrose Library Author’s Lecture on April 5. Amanda Adams, author of Ladies of the Field: Early Women Archaeologists and Their Search for Adventure (Greystone Books, […]