DU’s Department of Theatre held its last departmental performance in the Little Theatre in Margery Reed Hall in February 2010 with a production of Closer. While students have already been working in the Byron Flexible Theater and the University’s Newman Center for the Performing Arts, the Little Theatre is a […]
Gordie Bailey was an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Colorado when he died in 2004 of alcohol poisoning resulting from a fraternity initiation ceremony. University of Denver freshmen Gabby Masucci and Juliet Ourisman want to keep such a tragedy from happening at DU. Together, they have formed a chapter […]
A new University of Denver travel-abroad course — Social Work in Kenya: Context, Empowerment, and Sustainability — introduced graduate students to the complexities facing conservation efforts for the protection of animals and people living in economic poverty, though rich in cultural heritage, last quarter. The course, inaugurated by DU’s Graduate […]
Lorenzo Sanchez had been in fights before, but this one was different. A California transplant, Sanchez was new to Denver’s Skyview High School when one of his friends was shoved into a locker. Sanchez and his buddies retaliated against the bully and his buddies, and the ensuing melee ended with […]
It’s common for college athletic programs to provide the best coaches, trainers, nutritionists and health science experts to their student-athletes. Now, DU student-athletes also have access to a full-time sport and performance psychologist. DU is one of about 12 programs in the country to offer the service to its students. […]
The University of Denver always has prepared students to become leaders in business, law and other academic fields. A new sequence of courses offered through DU’s Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning (CCESL) aims to prepare students to become leaders in their communities as well.
At DU, many courses are anything but traditional. Think classes taught via satellite. Think reading “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” for homework, or comparing two different kinds of sauvignon blanc during class. We asked students and academic departments around the University about some of their coolest and most outside-the-box courses.
The accident that nearly ended Regan Linton’s life has instead transformed it. In 2002, when Linton was a junior in college, she was in a car accident that caused an upper-chest-level spinal cord injury. Though people sometimes find her perspective hard to understand, Linton — who uses a wheelchair for […]
Students at the Lamont School of Music will have a rare opportunity to perform works by composer and conductor Eric Whitacre. Whitacre — one of the most popular choral composers in the country — will be a guest conductor at a Feb. 25 concert featuring the Lamont Chorale, Lamont Wind […]
They wanted to reach a conference of educators, but a classroom video produced by University of Denver students to introduce attendees to a survey on technology and teaching reached the world instead. Lynn Schofield Clark, an assistant professor of mass communication and journalism at DU, was discussing with her media […]
Members of the University of Denver community will have an opportunity to celebrate love and friendship without leaving campus during the first El Amor Valentine’s Day Dance Feb. 11. A performance by local band El Amore will kick off the evening at 8 p.m. There will be desserts, mocktails, refreshments […]
If the best carbon offset is the carbon that isn’t used at all, then University of Denver students who live in residence halls have set the bar high. A fall-quarter competition among residence halls saw students reduce energy and water use across the board. Overall, students doing everything from turning […]
Figaro Joseph, a current PhD candidate at DU’s Korbel School of International Studies, hails from St. Mark, Haiti. Since the Jan. 12 earthquake there, Joseph has been gathering support for his country. Joseph hasn’t traveled to Haiti since 2004 but his extended family remains in St. Mark. He shared with […]
DU’s extended break between Thanksgiving and early January gives students an opportunity to do a variety of things while they’re away from campus. For instance, a group from DU’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies spent one week making connections in the nation’s capital. The 35 students participated in Korbel’s […]
Nearly 300 University of Denver students — including the men’s lacrosse team and the Delta Sigma Pi business fraternity — participated in a “Day On” Day of Service Jan. 18 in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. “At DU, we have many programs that teach the importance of public […]