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Psychology students care for CARE workers

Kristen Frost and Alysha Damratowski have taken numerous courses on public health, disaster mental health, clinical psychology and humanitarian aid as students in the University of Denver master’s program in international disaster psychology. This summer, they were able to put their knowledge into practice. Frost and Damratowski spent eight weeks […]

Students pour it on with wine festival

Students from the University of Denver’s School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management (HRTM) will host the first annual DU Vin Wine Festival on Nov. 8. The festival will focus on sustainability by employing recycled products, sustainable glassware, green cleaning methods and locally-grown foods. Proceeds from the student-conceived festival will […]

Lambda Chi Alpha donations benefit people with disabilities

It’s common practice to sponsor someone in a race or walk-a-thon for charity, but growing a moustache? DU Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity brothers set up a moustache-a-thon, in which donors paid participants a set amount of money for each day fraternity brothers went without shaving. The fundraiser is just one […]

Student travels far and wide to learn about microfinance

Julie Markham stumbled upon an article in Forbes magazine ranking the top-50 microfinance institutions in the world. Little did she know it would have a profound impact on her education, and possibly her career. After reading the article, Markham — who’s on track to graduate in June 2010 with a […]

Student video contest to focus on public transportation

DU students can win a Colorado Five-Mountain Ski Pass by showing how they move about the city. Students are asked to produce a video that shows how they use the Regional Transportation District’s bus or light rail system. Students can enter videos in one of four categories: Night on the […]

Students learn about international study opportunities

Mark Twain once said: “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” While Twain was […]

DU student learns life (saving) lessons from tae kwon do

Megan Westervelt had always thought the world was fairly harmless. That changed abruptly in 2006 — when two men accosted her while she was living in Buenos Aires, Argentina. They followed her into her apartment building lobby early one evening and cornered her by an elevator. “They were yelling in […]

Daniels Fund scholarship winner seeks to become ‘a man of value’

When Sam Granados was a sixth grader at Lake Middle School in Denver, his grades were low and his motivation to do any better was even lower. “My early life was vague, I don’t remember doing much good in middle school,” says Granados, who won a Daniels Fund scholarship to […]

Engineering student puts her academic pedal to the metal

Ellen Classen wasted no time revving her academic career into high gear at the University of Denver. In January 2009, the first-year student set her sights on a prestigious and highly selective automotive engineering program in Germany, the cradle of high-performance car production. Despite the long odds, she was accepted […]

Finding her voice on stage

When Regan Linton was a junior in college, she was in a car accident that caused an upper-chest-level spinal cord injury; she will have to use a wheelchair for the rest of her life. The experience ultimately led her to star in a wildly successful local production of Man of […]

Student aims to make DU even more LGBT inclusive

Christopher Turner is on a mission. He wants DU to be among the top 100 LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) inclusive campuses in the nation within the next five years. He has spent the last six months working on his goal through the Center for Community Engagement and Service […]

Student-athletes help undergraduates move in

At DU, student-athletes help incoming undergraduate students move into their residence halls. It’s one of the many traditions that are part of Discoveries Week, DU’s incoming undergraduate orientation program. The weeklong program is designed to give first-year and transfer students a strong start to their DU experience through workshops, small […]

Parent offers advice for students’ spiritual growth

Many young people experience a crisis of faith while attending college. Once they find themselves on their own, some kids seem to falter when exposed to conflicting value systems and less overall supervision. As parents, we don’t want them to lose their way after we have spent years nurturing their […]

Students find community in taekwondo club

Students find community in taekwondo club

Fights among students at DU usually are not tolerated, but every once in a while they’re actually encouraged. At Club Taekwondo, one of DU’s 28 club sports groups, they’re a regular occurrence. Sure, it’s all just sparring—students blowing off a little academic stress and steam (actually they call it “soft […]

Studying the drug war

Illegal drugs may be a familiar topic of discussion on college campuses, but according to DU’s Arthur Gilbert, that doesn’t mean students understand them. Gilbert says students often are bombarded with information about drugs but they rarely get an opportunity to study the business of illegal drugs or their impact […]