DU’s Ritchie Center is holding a Skate for the Cure event as a way of contributing to Breast Cancer Awareness month. Five percent of the fees collected from public skating in Joy Burns arena will benefit the American Cancer Foundation. The sessions will be from 7:30–9 p.m. on Oct. 16 […]
Leslie Petrovski (BA English ’82, MA English ’91) is nuts about knitting. A knitter since she was 7 years old, Petrovski writes about knitting for Vogue Knitting, Knit Simple Magazine, Knit.1 Magazine and Yarn Market News. And she authors a knitting blog, www.nakeidknits.com. But her latest knitting adventure may be […]
Do you have SOLE power? DU does, now that the Bridge Community Garden is up and running. SOLE—an acronym used to denote food that is sustainable, organic, local and ethical—aptly describes the fruits and veggies grown in the garden, located across from Centennial Halls at 1819 S. High St. Members […]
Scott Steiss says he is creating a “different kind of abundance” in his life as a volunteer for the Graduate School of Social Work’s Bridge Project. The Bridge Project is a nonprofit whose mission is to provide educational opportunities to children living in Denver public housing. Steiss, who is a […]
Q: What does your institute do to promote sustainability? A: We address fundamental land use, transportation policy and regulatory matters on a regional and national scale. We tackle issues that truly will have a long-term impact on sustainability. We also work to oppose “greenwashing” — a veneer placed on an unsustainable […]
Peter Groff’s (JD ’92) final days as president of the Colorado Senate were spent working on a flurry of last-minute bills and preparing for his move to Washington, D.C. At the same time, the executive director of DU’s Center for New Politics and Policy — formerly the Center for African […]
Through a program in the Four Corners, DU’s Graduate School of Social Work is educating social workers about the region’s unique needs.
DU’s new Marsico Institute for Early Learning and Literacy is working to improve the picture for early childhood education.
It’s a problem that affects everyone — cities, rural areas, farms, factories and countries both rich and poor: waste. But a team of scientists at the University of Denver is exploring breakthrough technologies that use simple properties to solve the vexing problem. Employing what’s known as a Vertical Tube Reactor […]
Nelda Martinez is a home ownership specialist with the Acoma Pueblo Housing Authority, located 60 miles west of Albuquerque. She provides financial literacy training to clients seeking housing at Acoma Pueblo, home to about 3,000. Clients are counseled about finances, maintenance and the realities of home ownership as they progress […]
Even though as many as 30,000 American Indians live in the Denver metro area, social work doctoral candidate Nancy Lucero has regularly confronted social workers telling her, “I don’t encounter Native people in my work.” At the same time, she says, many American Indians say they feel “invisible” in the […]
Whoever the next U.S. president will be, he is about to face a set of unprecedented challenges. Ensuring the nation’s energy security, easing the stress the U.S. puts on the global environment, and dealing with a number of prickly foreign policy situations are only a few of the momentous problems […]
Chris Aasted was one of those children who could be counted on to take things apart, just to see how they work. At 24, he’s turned to putting things together, to see if they work. As a graduate student at DU, Aasted is working closely with Rahmat Shoureshi, dean of […]
Professional engineers solve problems in the real world. At the University of Denver, so do student engineers. Students working with DU engineering assistant professors Kim Newman and Irvin Jones cap their bachelor’s degree with a foray into that real world, tackling the real problems facing disabled people through engineered solutions. […]
During a service-learning trip to Oaxaca, Mexico, when she was 18, Jacquelyn Eisenberg taught a family to brush their teeth for the first time. One of the children was a girl Jacquelyn’s age. That experience set Eisenberg on the path of social work. Since then, she’s been a mentor and […]