Eating a meal with Alison Krogel is never just about the food. Krogel, an assistant professor of Spanish at DU, recently wrote a book that explores the way food and cooks appear in various art forms — oral narratives, photographs, poems, songs, novels — among the Quechua, the rural people […]

The University of Denver offers broad expertise in looming deadline

When you parked your car on campus today, did you think about how far you’d have to walk later, or whether your car was under a light? If you answered, “Yes,” you’re probably a woman. “What toll does it take having to think about [the possibility of sexual assault] every […]

The University of Denver blows up, shoots at and blasts holes in more stuff before noon than most universities do all day. Measuring and documenting havoc wreaked by .50-caliber bullets, cannon-blasts of ball bearings and dozens of explosive concoctions, researchers at DU’s Applied Research and Technology Institute toil at a […]

Susan Sterett recalls that as an undergraduate at the University of California-San Diego, she became “enchanted with knowledge.”   “Yes, it’s about as naïve as it sounds,” Sterett says with a laugh. “But I felt like I wanted to build knowledge to find out how the world worked.” So it […]

For University of Denver biology professor Todd Blankenship, $1.4 million will buy a lot of fruit flies. It will also help students earn graduate degrees and help humankind understand how cells develop. It may even unlock the secrets behind insidious diseases. In June, Blankenship learned he had landed a $1.4 […]

Dan Linseman is at war. His enemy unleashes nearly unthinkable horror on its victims. Imagine slowly losing control of your muscles. Eventually you need a cane just to walk from your living room to your kitchen. Then, a few months later, you’re wheelchair bound. Within a few weeks, you can’t […]

Elizabeth Campbell Karlsgodt, assistant professor of History at the University of Denver (DU), examines the ethical dimensions of museum acquisitions in her new book Defending National Treasures: French Art and Heritage Under Vichy (Stanford University Press, 2011). In the book, Karlsgodt examines lasting preservation policies created during the Nazi occupation, as well as the effort by French curators to acquire works of art from Jewish collections for the Louvre and other museums.

Professor Jeff Jenson of DU’s Graduate School of Social of Work (GSWW) has been named a fellow at the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare. Jenson, the Philip D. & Eleanor G. Winn Professor for Children and Youth at Risk, also serves as GSSW’s associate dean for research. Jenson […]

A new study from DU’s Center for Marital and Family Studies finds that for active-duty male soldiers in the Army who are happily married, communicating frequently with one’s spouse during deployment may protect against the development of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A DU research team studied information from 193 […]

University of Denver professor Todd Blankenship asks the “big questions” in life. For instance: Why do we look like we do? How do humans and animals emerge from a single, mostly round cell into the shapes that we take? How do our emerging, “programmed” cells line up in the correct […]

Remember those colorful diagrams that showed how different regions of the tongue contained different types of taste buds that detected specific tastes, like salty, sweet and bitter? Many people do, because this commonly held misconception — which came about when a German study on taste was mistranslated — is all […]

DU’s plan to have a whole new look and feel for Penrose Library to support the needs of patrons in the 21st century is under way. In preparation for construction work on the Academic Commons, movers last week transported almost 20,000 linear feet of material to a DU-owned off-site location […]

Dan Lair’s interest in communication and work-related issues came about through his first “real” job as a marketing representative for a managed care corporation. Although he had no interest in marketing or managed care, he threw himself into the higher paying job by working extra hours without being asked and […]

The science laboratories in the former Boettcher East building are gone now, but the site of the building demolished last year will still host several experiments over the coming years. Working in collaboration, DU’s facilities management, the office of the University architect and the University arborist will be working with […]