At the University of Denver’s Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (ERI), founded in 1961 to conduct pioneering biomedical and genetic research, undergraduate and graduate students partner with world-renowned scholars in a quest to unravel the mysteries of disease. For Nathan Duval, a PhD candidate in biological sciences, that quest has personal significance. […]
More than five months since she left her 34-year-long U.S. congressional career, former Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) frequently finds herself answering the same question from people from all walks of life: How did it get this bad? Congress hasn’t always been quite this dysfunctional, notes Snowe, who in February 2012 […]
Josepha “Jossy” Eyre, founder of the Women’s Bean Project, came to campus April 23 to talk to students about her path to social work and the importance of following your passion. Eyre (MSW ’86) was on campus as part of the Masters Program, which invites successful alumni back to campus […]
Fifteen years later, Art Jones is realizing the true vision of the Spirituals Project, the nonprofit he founded in 1998 to preserve and revitalize the religious folk songs created by enslaved African-Americans. “The mission is not only to have people hear the music, but to learn the history behind it […]
Bobby Deline (BA ’07) was able to put his University of Denver education to good use while making his debut feature film, “The Aviation Cocktail.” Deline, a filmmaking major with a business minor, served as producer on the film, meaning he got to combine his creative and financial sides. “I […]
Former Dubuque Fighting Saints head coach and general manager Jim Montgomery has been named head coach of the University of Denver men’s ice hockey team, Vice Chancellor for Athletics and Recreation Peg Bradley-Doppes announced today. Montgomery becomes the eighth head coach in DU ice hockey history — a program that began […]
For its annual spring production, Lamont Opera Theatre is moving away from the classics it has performed in recent seasons — “Faust,” “The Marriage of Figaro,” “Gianni Schicchi” — and veering to the contemporary with a staging of “Susannah,” a 1955 opera by American composer Carlisle Floyd. Running April 18–21 […]
First-year student Paige Jones has a passion for helping others. Through her humanitarian work, Jones is a leader making a positive impact in the University community and around the globe. A Broomfield, Colo., native, Jones was drawn to the University because of its small size and academic programs. The deciding […]
Curatorial studies students at the University of Denver are helping to welcome the Anderson Academic Commons to campus in an unusual way, collaborating with two internationally known artists on a pair of installations that address the role of the library in 2013. Inspired by the debate over the number of […]
At first glance, it’s hard to see anything but barbed wire, parched trees and plants armed for battle at Amache, the southeastern Colorado setting of a World War II internment camp for people of Japanese descent. From 1942 to 1945, Amache housed so many people that it qualified as Colorado’s […]
What tribe are you? Organizers of a new exhibit at the University of Denver Museum of Anthropology say there a lot of ways to answer that question: Navajo, Scottish, Jewish — but also poet, writer, teacher, student. “WhatTRIBE,” featuring the work of Native American artist Douglas Miles, runs through May […]
An emotional George Gwozdecky looked back over his 19-year coaching career at the University of Denver during a press conference Tuesday morning. The Pioneer men’s hockey coach was released from his contract Monday morning, three days after the Pioneers failed to advance in the NCAA Tournament for the fifth time […]
The presidential debate on campus was undoubtedly the biggest the story of the year, but there was other big news at the University of Denver this year, including a new logo and a move to a new athletic conference. As voted on by the staff of the University Communications department, […]
The things a tree can tell you can change the fate of a civilization. That’s why since 2007, Associate Professor Matthew Taylor of the geography department has been taking University of Denver graduate and undergraduate students to Guatemala to study tree-ring data. The light and dark bands of wood, he […]
New York-based painter Dana Schutz has become one of America’s best-known young artists by embracing — and painting — the often-strange ideas that come into her head. In one series of paintings she portrays people eating themselves; in another she imagines an Earth with only two people left: a man […]