Even though Lauren Johnson passed away a few years ago, her legacy lives on. Johnson, a 23-year-old graduate student studying international relations at DU’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies, died of carbon monoxide poisoning in her off-campus apartment Jan. 5, 2009. In her memory, people close to her started […]
Jazz fans will find a lot to like about the 2011–12 Newman Center Presents series, which includes performances by vocalist Jane Monheit on Oct. 18, pianist Chucho Valdes and his Afro-Cuban Messengers band on Feb. 14 and pianist Brad Mehldau on May 11, 2012. In keeping with the season’s “Convergences” […]
The bikes are back in town. The Denver B-cycle program — which had been closed for winter since December — officially re-opened March 14. All 50 bike kiosks around Denver — including two on campus and one near the DU light-rail station — will be stocked with the popular red […]
As it nears the end of its “Legacies”-themed season, the Newman Center Presents series is gearing up for a show that is practically a definition of the word “legacy.” On March 25, acclaimed pianist and conductor Jeffrey Kahane — former music director of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra — will share […]
Students at the Lamont School of Music will get a chance to learn from one of the world’s foremost chamber music groups — the American String Quartet. The quartet will teach a master class March 22 at 3:30 p.m. at DU’s Newman Center for the Performing Arts. The class is […]
Roddy MacInnes, associate professor of photography at DU, will share part of his “Jim River” project starting March 22 at Penrose Library. The project covers MacInnes’ fascination with family albums, which began about 19 years ago after finding the album of Nina Weiste of Dickey County, N.D., in a […]
The University of Denver women’s basketball team was picked to play Brigham Young University in the first round of the women’s National Invitational Tournament on Thursday at the Marriott Center in Provo, Utah. Game time is scheduled for 7 p.m. MT. “Our goal at the beginning of the season was […]
Most purses carry a woman’s everyday essentials, from her breath mints to her cell phone. But what a woman carries in her purse can reveal much more about her than her favorite shade of lipstick. Coleen Hubbard (MLS ’07) directed, wrote and narrated The Contents of Her Purse, a documentary […]
University of Denver junior Ida Dillingoen of Oslo, Norway, won the individual title in women’s giant slalom and senior Seppi Stiegler of Wilson, Wyo., won the title in men’s giant slalom at the NCAA skiing championships on March 9. Also, freshman Sterling Grant of Amery, Wis., completed an undefeated season in women’s […]
At first, Kyle Ostrow assumed he had unwittingly tweaked an abdominal muscle during practice earlier in the week. Or that perhaps something he ate simply was not agreeing with him. Whatever the case, it never crossed Ostrow’s mind that one of the penultimate road trips against the University for Minnesota […]
While many students in the United States learn about international relations from thousands of miles away, master’s students in the Peace Corps International Program at DU’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies learn about the subject by immersing themselves in the field. The program incorporates Peace Corps service with a […]
Soccer practice has just ended and Erik Myhren is loading a chatty group of 9-year-old girls into his van for the two-hour drive home, with half a dozen stops spread out between northeast Denver and east Aurora. An urban elementary school teacher in the Park Hill neighborhood for the past […]
With pieces like Monster in a Box, Swimming to Cambodia and Gray’s Anatomy, Spalding Gray essentially created a new kind of performance art. Taking to the stage with nothing but a chair, a notebook and a glass of water, the writer and actor performed trademark monologues that were hilarious, heartbreaking […]
Tickets for No. 2 seed Denver vs. No. 11 seed Minnesota State in the first round of the 2011 Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) playoffs are currently on sale. The best 2-of-3 series between the Pioneers and Mavericks is set for March 11–13 at Magness Arena. DU, which finished with an overall record […]
Sheila Schroeder, an associate professor in DU’s Department of Media, Film & Journalism Studies, has tackled the topics of activism and non-violence in her films before. Now she’s looking at the topic while sharing a moment of the University’s history. “Woodstock West: Build Not Burn” will highlight the events of […]