David Zimmerman graduated from DU with a bachelor’s degree in marketing in June 2011 and he’s wasted no time in putting what he learned to use. The surfer and snowboarder created his own urban streetwear clothing line — Giuce — and has used his marketing training to build buzz around […]
When Ashley Buderus volunteered at Il Piccolo Principe children’s foster home Bologna, Italy, in 2002, as part of her DU study-abroad experience, she had an epiphany. She was planning to pursue a career in corporate business, but while working with the children, she realized she should dedicate her life to […]
The nation’s founding fathers considered the “pursuit of happiness” an unalienable right. With its inclusion in the Declaration of Independence, Americans were provided with a lofty goal: to seek happiness. Over time, self-help books, television shows and popular culture have offered a seemingly unending supply of advice for achieving a […]
In the midst of television’s popular “Shark Week” this August, it’s hard to imagine nature’s most fearsome predators are in danger. But DU’s Sturm College of Law Environmental Law Clinic on Aug. 4 filed a federal lawsuit to protect the porbeagle shark from overfishing that has pushed the species to […]
LoAn Vo surveyed the scene of endless golf tournaments and saw no need for another. She wanted to help local charities and couldn’t bear to build one more high-dollar get-together on the greens. “My friends and I play tennis and, in the tennis community, there’s not a lot of events,” […]
One work of Austin Zucchini-Fowler is striking both in size and in artistry, and it would not have been possible in DU’s former facilities. Zucchini-Fowler, a senior art major from Phoenix, is painting a massive mural on one of the walls of the new painting studio. He’s employing techniques he […]
The University of Denver and the Denver Astronomical Society will host a “Vesta Fiesta” at the University’s historic Chamberlin Observatory. The event celebrates the beginning of the NASA Dawn mission’s year-long visit to the protoplanet Vesta. The Dawn spacecraft left Earth on Sept. 27, 2007, and will reach Vesta this month […]
Eating a meal with Alison Krogel is never just about the food. Krogel, an assistant professor of Spanish at DU, recently wrote a book that explores the way food and cooks appear in various art forms — oral narratives, photographs, poems, songs, novels — among the Quechua, the rural people […]
The University of Denver Center for Colorado’s Economic Future has earned national recognition for its recent work on state finances from the Governmental Research Association (GRA), an organization that encourages public interest study and analysis. The GRA recognized the center’s phase one report on state finances, “Financing Colorado’s Future: An […]
For singer Nathan Bird, becoming part of the Massif Trio — and performing with two guitars instead of a piano — took some getting used to. “A lot of singers don’t get this kind of ensemble experience. When you’re performing with a piano, it’s just you and this envelope of […]
The University of Denver men’s swimming and diving team topped all NCAA Division I programs to earn the Scholar All-America Team honor for the 2010–11 academic year. The College Swimming Coaches Association of America gives the honor each year to a team with the highest cumulative GPA. Sixteen DU swimmers […]
The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) has given DU a Gold Award for the University’s ongoing sustainability efforts. DU is one of 13 schools nationwide to achieve gold recognition. AASHE’s Sustainability Tracking Assessment and Ratings System (STARS) awards points in three main areas: education and […]
Sudden cardiac arrest claims more than 300,000 lives each year. The Mile High chapter of the American Red Cross aims to reduce this number by making automated external defibrillators (AEDs) widely available to the public through its “Save A Life Denver” program. DU will distribute 80 AEDs throughout campus, and […]
“I remember asking my dad for money, and he said, ‘If you want it, go make it.’” Mike Hills’ quintessential adolescent appeal and his father’s classic reply were a springboard for the budding small-business owner. He started out as “the kid who went around and knocked on doors” to drum […]
The University of Denver blows up, shoots at and blasts holes in more stuff before noon than most universities do all day. Measuring and documenting havoc wreaked by .50-caliber bullets, cannon-blasts of ball bearings and dozens of explosive concoctions, researchers at DU’s Applied Research and Technology Institute toil at a […]