Being a rookie to the whole college soccer scene, Nicholette DiGiacomo figured the news had to be some sort of cruel joke. The Pioneers had compiled a 19-2-1 record — including a perfect 11-0 mark in the Sun Belt Conference. Sure, DU had suffered a shootout loss in the finale […]
Viola instructor Basil Vendryes of DU’s Lamont School of Music remembers an aunt reading him the riot act over his plans to pursue a career in music. “You’ll be playing outside Carnegie Hall, not inside it,” she warned the fledgling musician. When Vendryes played the historic New York City venue […]
One by one, more than 500 students took their final steps as University of Denver students Aug. 12 and completed their educational journey during summer Commencement. Undergraduate and graduate students marked the end of DU’s 147th academic year under clear skies and sunshine on Graduation Green. The students watched the […]
Update: Singers for Faust have changed. To find out more, visit the DU Today story. The Lamont School of Music kicks off its inaugural fall opera not with a bang, but with a low rumble as famed bass Hao Jiang Tian (MA ’87) returns to DU to perform in select […]
More than 500 University of Denver graduates and undergraduates are expected to accept their diplomas Aug. 12 at summer Commencement. The annual event begins at 8:30 a.m. on the Graduation Green on the south side of DU’s Margery Reed Building. This year’s celebration will be the first to take place […]
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. […]
One work of Austin Zucchini-Fowler is striking both in size and in artistry, and it would not have been possible in DU’s former facilities. Zucchini-Fowler, a senior art major from Phoenix, is painting a massive mural on one of the walls of the new painting studio. He’s employing techniques he […]
DU’s Recent Graduate Committee is on a mission to give back to University of Denver students. The group — which consists of alumni who’ve graduated in the past 10 years and is sponsored by DU’s Office of Alumni Relations — founded the Young Alumni Endowed Scholarship to provide financial assistance […]
Six of the nation’s top NCAA Division I men’s ice hockey programs have become founding members of the newly formed National Collegiate Hockey Conference, which will begin competition for the 2013–14 season, the programs’ athletic directors and head coaches announced today at historic Penrose House in Colorado Springs, Colo. The […]
Video filmed in one five-hour period during the TEDxDU event at the University of Denver
As the world has become a more global society, people are seeing an increasing need to study religion. To meet the need, DU’s religious studies department is offering a wider range of programs to help prepare graduate students for careers in related fields. Historically, the department offered students a master’s […]
The University of Denver continued its dominance among NCAA Division I non-football schools by earning its fourth consecutive Learfield Sports I-AAA Directors’ Cup. The Pioneers sent nine teams as well as individuals from three sports programs to NCAA postseason competition to finish with 384.5 points. DU outdistanced No. 78 UC-Irvine […]
A lot of students make the journey to college to “find themselves.” Some, like Vanessa Teck, know their path long before. “I think just being Asian-American, being considered a minority, really made me passionate about diversity,” the DU junior says. “I wouldn’t want what my parents suffered through to happen […]
Student-athletes at the University of Denver are not waiting until they graduate to give back to their alma mater; they’re doing it now. Last year, 88 percent of student-athletes made a financial gift to DU through the Pioneers Reinvesting In Denver Excellence (PRIDE) fund. The fund, which was established to […]