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Grabel to deliver University Lecture

Grabel to deliver University Lecture

If you meet Professor Ilene Grabel and ask about her work, she’ll tell you she’s an economist on faculty at DU’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies. She’ll also tell you that her research focuses primarily on issues of global financial architecture and specifically on financial policy in developing countries. […]

Sporting Event of the Week: DU vs. Cal-State Bakersfield in men’s soccer

Sporting Event of the Week: DU vs. Cal-State Bakersfield in men’s soccer

The University of Denver men’s soccer team has played an extremely difficult schedule to date, and the challenge continues as the Pioneers welcome No. 25 Cal State-Bakersfield at 7 p.m. Oct. 28 at CIBER Field. “As we enter the last two weekends in the regular season, we need to get […]

DU’s enrollment numbers show high persistence rate and high GPAs

Each year the University of Denver’s new class of first-time, first-year students brings something special to the campus. This year’s first-year class is no exception. This year’s first-time, first-year class has 1,243 full-time students and 207 transfer students enrolled. But what marks this class, literally, are its marks. There are […]

Lamont Featured Performance: “Chansons Tristes”

Lamont Featured Performance: “Chansons Tristes”

Classical music lovers will be able to hear a duo of Lamont legends for a song. Cellist Richard Slavich and pianist Theodor Lichtmann will present a distinctive faculty recital called “Chansons Tristes.” The recital’s theme is song and will feature Paul Hindemith’s Variations on an Old-English Nursery Song: A frog […]

DU public policy institute to host education reform debate

DU’s Institute for Public Policy is tackling one of the most hotly debated policy topics in Colorado: education reform. The DU and Denver communities are invited to hear from four of the state’s leading reformers at “CounterPoints: School Reform,” a panel debate moderated by former Gov. Richard Lamm. In a […]

The rising NHL tide wasn’t able to wash away DU’s Shore line

The rising NHL tide wasn’t able to wash away DU’s Shore line

Drew Shore could not have been blamed if he had opted for a one-way ticket out of Denver earlier this year. The trend in big-time college hockey, after all, is for elite players to jump into the professional ranks as soon possible. As the leading scorer for the University of […]

As the Fall Classic commences, grad student recalls a summer internship in Cooperstown

As the Fall Classic commences, grad student recalls a summer internship in Cooperstown

Jenny Rodger did what any Chicago Cubs fan might do upon entering the plaque gallery in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum for the first time. She went looking for Cubs great Ryne Sandberg. Rodger, who will complete course work for a master’s of library and information science […]

Artists display their botanical illustrations at DU’s anthropology gallery

Artists display their botanical illustrations at DU’s anthropology gallery

Work by students and instructors from the Denver Botanic Gardens’ Botanical Illustration program is on display in Art Meets Science, running through Oct. 28 at the University of Denver Museum of Anthropology Gallery in Sturm Hall 102. The show features more than 50 botanical plates, plus field journals, samples from […]

Sporting Event of the Week: Pioneer Athletics Day

Sporting Event of the Week: Pioneer Athletics Day

The University of Denver is being recognized with dual proclamations from Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and Denver Mayor Michael Hancock that declare Oct. 22, 2011, “University of Denver Pioneer Athletics Day.” The proclamations recognize DU’s fourth-consecutive Learfield Sports I-AAA Directors Cup, which is awarded annually to the highest achieving non-football […]

New degree to focus on technology and innovation

DU students will now have a new degree option: emergent digital practices. The degree combines the digital media studies (DMS) and electronic media arts and design programs (eMAD). Professors hope the new degree program appeals to students who want to work on the cutting edge of technology and innovation, generating […]

Murray takes over the crease for the Pioneers

Murray takes over the crease for the Pioneers

There is not a single person in head coach George Gwozdecky’s vaunted hockey program that would ever be caught reveling in a teammate’s misfortune — especially among the team’s goaltenders. The netminders are a tight fraternity, often relying on one another for technical advice and emotional support after tough games. […]

DU offering workshop on Islam and Arab spring

DU’s Religious Studies Department is hosting a workshop called “Teaching Islam.” While the workshop is aimed at graduate students and high school teachers, it is also open to any interested community members. “This program is a great opportunity for graduate students in religious studies, international studies, and related fields to […]

Gwozdecky’s coaching tree stretches far and wide

Gwozdecky’s coaching tree stretches far and wide

It is the sort of trip down memory lane George Gwozdecky simply has been too busy to take. Sitting on the cusp of his 400th victory as the head coach of the University of Denver hockey team, Gwozdecky is about to begin his 18th season at DU. He has collected […]

Sporting Event of the Week: DU vs. Wyoming in Denver Relays

Sporting Event of the Week: DU vs. Wyoming in Denver Relays

The University of Denver swimming and diving teams kick off their season at noon Oct. 15 at the El Pomar Natatorium in DU’s Ritchie Center when they host Wyoming at the Denver Relays. The Pioneers closed last season on a high note, winning both the Sun Belt Conference (SBC) men’s […]

Lamont Featured Performance: Jazz Night

Lamont Featured Performance: Jazz Night

The purveyors of harmony at the Lamont School of Music will celebrate people who want more harmony in the world with a concert featuring Michael Weiss. The Lamont Jazz Ensemble, Lamont Jazz Orchestra and Contemporary Combo will perform with Weiss, while the combo will play tunes written by the jazz […]