With February being the month of Valentine’s Day, it should come as no surprise that it’s also American Heart Month. DU Chaplain Gary Brower encourages you to share a piece of your heart this month by participating in a number of events. Brower says he tries to put together volunteer […]
DU’s Myhren Gallery will present “Warhol In Colorado” — an exhibition featuring screen prints, photographs, films, record album covers, posters and other works by and about Andy Warhol — Jan. 20 –March 13. The exhibition is built around 158 Warhol Polaroid photos and silver prints gifted to the gallery by […]
Shane Carrick and Bobby Deline became fast friends when they earned their bachelor’s degrees in communications from DU a couple years ago. But after graduation they went their separate ways: Deline started a local production company and Carrick worked in television production before deciding to teach English to fifth-graders in […]
The University of Denver and the Denver Hockey Alumni Association (DHAA) will hold a memorial service for legendary hockey head coach Murray “The Chief” Armstrong. Armstrong, who coached DU to five NCAA national championships, died Dec. 8, 2010. He was 94. The “Hail to The Chief” service will take place […]
The Lamont Symphony Orchestra under the direction of conductor Lawrence Golan will present a concert in commemoration of the 10-year anniversary of September 11th. The concert is a collaboration of the Lamont School of Music and the Bridges to the Future lecture series as part of the series’ continuing programming […]
Fans of Denver Square, the Mile High City-themed comic strip that ran for 12 years in the Rocky Mountain News, might be wondering just what looks so familiar about Freshly Squeezed, a new comic that started running Oct. 11 in the Denver Post. The answer is that both strips are […]
University of Denver Professor Toshiya Ueta deals in the big picture, looking at what’s not visible to human eyes from a platform cloaked in shadow high above the Earth. His quest is to understand the life cycle of stars. As an astronomer, he studies the very biggest questions of how […]
Broken teeth. Shattered jaws. Fist fights. Fair or not, we tend to think of hockey players in blustery, macho terms rather than in images of precision and grace. So it might be surprising to learn that Dustin “Dusty” Jackson — a 6-foot-3-inch, 205-pound forward for the University of Denver Pioneers […]
Music has long been heralded for its power to bring people together, but the Boston-based chamber orchestra A Far Cry takes the idea of musical community to a whole new level. The collaborative group of 16 young string players performs without a conductor, connects with fans via blogs and online […]
Lamine Touré, an African sabar drum master, will teach and perform at the Lamont School of Music as part of DU’s Black History month programming. Touré, who was born into a family of percussionists in Senegal, will hold dance and drumming master classes with students Jan. 31–Feb. 4. The week […]
More than 200 University of Denver students and community members grilled a panel of experts on technology and innovation Jan. 28 as MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan rolled into Denver on his national Steel on Wheels tour. Ratigan took the stage at the Newman Center for the Performing Arts calling for […]
Philip Harris’ degrees in computer science and Russian from the University of Denver will allow the 24-year-old to launch a career in flight planning and operations for the International Space Station — splitting time between Moscow and NASA Mission Control in Houston while he works on flight control software and […]
When Ed Stein (BFA ’69) walked into Roger Kotoske’s introductory art course, he immediately felt intimidated. “I realized fast I wasn’t very good at what I did,” Stein says. “There were all kinds of things that kids knew that I didn’t. In spite of all that, [Kotoske] was an inspiring […]
Former University of Denver All-American Paul Stastny has been added to the 2011 NHL All-Star Game roster. Stastny joins Colorado Avalanche teammate Matt Duchene at the 58th NHL All-Star Game, which will start a 2 p.m. MST on Jan. 30 at the RBC Center in Raleigh, N.C. Stastny, 25, will […]
Praising what he called “grassroots educational reform,” President Barack Obama recognized DU alumna Kristin Waters (PhD ’06) during his State of the Union speech last night. Obama commended Waters for spearheading a metamorphosis that resulted in the turnaround of one of the state’s “worst” schools — with intense gang rivalries […]