For four decades, DU chemistry Professor Donald Stedman has collected, analyzed and categorized just about everything that comes out of passenger vehicle tailpipes. He’s logged tens of thousands of emissions samples from every manner of car, motorcycle and small truck as they whizzed by his ever-present emission detection tools […]
Concussion expert Kim Gorgens is helping young athletes keep their heads in the game.
Western Union — the company that can send money to virtually any country — has plenty of reasons to partner with a United Nations agency that helps people without a country. But the company’s chairman has an even bigger reason. The University of Denver’s Ved Nanda Center for International and […]
Kellan Christensen is not so vain or so enamored with presenting an athletic “tough-guy” façade that he cannot admit how scared he was at times over the past few years. Whenever Christensen is charging down the field, leading the offensive attack for the DU men’s soccer team, he does so […]
Ban Ki-moon will speak at the 14th annual Korbel Dinner Aug. 24
Ann Moore never wore a pair of cowboy boots, never owned spurs, never roped a calf. An English teacher at Cherry Creek High School, she taught a course called Reading and Studying for Success, and didn’t blame her students when their eyes glazed over. “It was an awful title,” Moore […]
When Jeff Bi (MA ’90), the CEO of a highly successful packaging company, spoke at TEDxDU on May 13, one person in the crowd was particularly proud: Jack Newkirk, a University of Denver donor and former chemical engineering professor. Turns out, Bi would likely not have been on that stage […]
The sun-baked concrete and brick picnic deck overlooking busy Evans Avenue off DU’s Driscoll University Center needed some greenery to cool things down. But staffers keen on sustainability in the Student Life office next door weren’t eager to add ornamental plants that demand water and produce little in return. For […]
When Ashley Buderus volunteered at Il Piccolo Principe children’s foster home Bologna, Italy, in 2002, as part of her DU study-abroad experience, she had an epiphany. She was planning to pursue a career in corporate business, but while working with the children, she realized she should dedicate her life to […]
The nation’s founding fathers considered the “pursuit of happiness” an unalienable right. With its inclusion in the Declaration of Independence, Americans were provided with a lofty goal: to seek happiness. Over time, self-help books, television shows and popular culture have offered a seemingly unending supply of advice for achieving a […]
In the midst of television’s popular “Shark Week” this August, it’s hard to imagine nature’s most fearsome predators are in danger. But DU’s Sturm College of Law Environmental Law Clinic on Aug. 4 filed a federal lawsuit to protect the porbeagle shark from overfishing that has pushed the species to […]
DU’s Kibera Working Group (KWG) was selected as one of the 15 best student innovation teams in the country to participate in Open Minds — a video competition and exhibition hosted by the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance and the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. […]
LoAn Vo surveyed the scene of endless golf tournaments and saw no need for another. She wanted to help local charities and couldn’t bear to build one more high-dollar get-together on the greens. “My friends and I play tennis and, in the tennis community, there’s not a lot of events,” […]
The University of Denver offers broad expertise in looming deadline
When Christopher Alexander was diagnosed with diabetes in April, he was “really freaked out about it.” But when the shock of the diagnosis wore off, he decided to do something to help himself — and others. The Penrose Library assistant will ride his bike 31 miles around Boulder County in […]