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DU launches countdown clock, logo for 2012 presidential debate

DU launches countdown clock, logo for 2012 presidential debate

With fanfare from the pep band accompanied by cheerleaders and dancers, University of Denver  students, faculty, staff and alumni celebrated Presidents’ Day by unveiling the logo for the Oct. 3 presidential debate and cranking up the countdown clock. Only 226 days until DU hosts the first presidential debate ever in […]

Jazz instructor’s career hitting high notes

Jazz instructor’s career hitting high notes

Donna Wickham’s musical career is hitting some high notes. Last fall she released two CDs in one month, and both are getting rave reviews. Wickham (BM ’00, MM ’03), a DU alumna who heads up the vocal jazz program at the Lamont School of Music, celebrated the release of a […]

DU to stream full day of TED2012 programming Feb. 29

DU to stream full day of TED2012 programming Feb. 29

If Long Beach, Calif., is too far to travel for the sold-out TED2012 conference, take heart: DU will live stream a full day of the five-day “conference of ideas” from 9 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Feb. 29 in the commons at Ruffatto Hall. Devoted to “ideas worth spreading” and bringing together luminaries […]

Daffodil Days a tribute to mom lost to cancer

Daffodil Days a tribute to mom lost to cancer

In 2003, at the age of 49, Vickie Lynn Petrey discovered a lump in her breast. She had lost her medical insurance coverage when her husband retired, so she put off getting a diagnosis despite having visible signs of breast cancer. “I spent hours researching cancer resources and found the […]

Alum Moses Brewer still building relationships at 65

Alum Moses Brewer still building relationships at 65

Moses Brewer is an institution in Denver and around the country, a one-name brand not unlike Beyonce, Plato, Bono and Oprah, says colleague and friend Sylvia Cordy, a PR executive who knows branding. “People don’t say ‘Moses Brewer,’ they say ‘Moses.’ He’s built that kind of reputation,” she says. “Whenever […]

Alumnus Wishmier keeps NBA refs on their toes

Alumnus Wishmier keeps NBA refs on their toes

“I gotta go watch plays,” says Jim Wishmier, sounding like a theater critic anticipating another night of drama. He will see drama, all right—compelling acting, plaintive expressions and emotional outbursts from an ensemble cast that might include the likes of Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and Kevin Durant. Indeed, the plays […]

Substitute hockey goalie shines in the spotlight

Substitute hockey goalie shines in the spotlight

The journey across the ocean Juho Olkinuora made last summer en route to the University of Denver does not begin to compare to his odyssey since joining the Pioneers hockey program. In just a few whirlwind months, Olkinuora, a freshman goaltender from Finland, has evolved from a last-minute insurance policy […]

1970 grads reunite as Jackson Hole execs

1970 grads reunite as Jackson Hole execs

Though they both earned BSBA degrees from DU in 1970, the top executives at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, Jerry Blann and Jay Kemmerer, never met on campus during their undergraduate years. Blann was an All-American on the ski team that won three national championships during his four years at DU. […]

Lamont Symphony takes on classical’s greatest hits

Lamont Symphony takes on classical’s greatest hits

The Lamont Symphony Orchestra will perform two of the best-known pieces of orchestral music of all time in a concert Feb. 9. “The concert will be like the classical music equivalent of a Hollywood blockbuster,” says Lawrence Golan, the orchestra’s music director and conductor. The program features Beethoven’s famous Fifth […]

Bridges speaker: U.S. must connect with other countries, ‘non-state actors’

Bridges speaker: U.S. must connect with other countries, ‘non-state actors’

An audience at DU’s Newman Center for the Performing Arts considered billiard balls and LEGO sets Thursday evening as Bridges to the Future featured speaker Anne-Marie Slaughter talked about changes in international relations spanning the Kennedy presidency to the modern day. The Princeton University professor of politics and international affairs […]

Law students sue to block Christo’s ‘Over the River’ project

Law students sue to block Christo’s ‘Over the River’ project

Students in the Environmental Law Clinic at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law on Feb. 1 filed suit in federal court to block “Over the River,” an industrial-scale art project by the well-known artist Christo that was approved in November by the Bureau of Land Management. The project […]

Psychology instructor part of Nepal’s first public lesbian wedding

Psychology instructor part of Nepal’s first public lesbian wedding

It’s not so unusual that Courtney Mitchell, who served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal, would want to return to the country for her wedding. But Mitchell and her partner, Sarah Welton, made history in June when they became the first lesbian couple to publicly wed in Nepal. “What […]

Beloved engineering professor succumbs to cancer

Beloved engineering professor succumbs to cancer

Longtime DU engineering Professor Roger Salters died at his home on Jan. 13, 2012. He was 72. Salters had been under treatment for prostate cancer since October. Salters was born in Switzer, S.C., on Aug. 5, 1939. He was born into a military family and spent his early years in […]

Alum Elliot Martin inducted into theater hall of fame

Alum Elliot Martin inducted into theater hall of fame

Famed Broadway producer and Tony Award winner Elliot Martin, who attended the University of Denver from 1943–46, was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in New York on Jan. 30. Martin studied theater under one of DU’s most noted professors, Camden Bell. Instead of completing his bachelor’s degree, […]

Grass Confusion: DU symposium tackles tangled marijuana laws

The level of confusion over marijuana laws in Colorado and the nation is high. As experts gathered at the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law Jan. 27 for an all-day symposium, “Marijuana at the Crossroads,” the assembled attorneys, faculty and law students heard just how difficult it has become […]